The Library of Forgotten Books
“Here they acted out their desperate affairs and petty dramas. The more adventurous sailed out to the rock pools on the picturesque islands or along the coast to the famous Sparkling Grotto with its fractured and kaleidoscopic light. But chief among the enticements was the Cinema of Coming Attractions. Each day, as my gang scammed tourists on the Place de la Revolution, I watched the famous and the wealthy stagger from the matinee sessions at the Palais Cinema. Sometimes they would be arm-in-arm... and laughing. Others came out drawn and white. And, of course, I’d heard the stories of breakdown and suicide.As the sun baked the square one afternoon, Petit Pierre squatted on the ground, a bowl full of money and three cups face down before him. He picked one up to reveal nothing beneath it. With rapid movements like a small animal, Pierre picked up one of the other two cups to reveal a ball.“Desolé, monsieur,” he said, his fifteen-year-old face mimicking sadness as he pocketed the money in the wooden bowl.MoreLess
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