The Real Thing (1992)
“It is French, like the ‘Boucherie’ next to it-a very British butcher-like the ‘Brasserie’ opposite, and it is run by two Greeks. At once it acquired its regulars, of whom I am one. Here, as in all good cafes, may be observed real-life soap operas, to be defined as series of emotional events that are certainly not unfamiliar, since you are bound to have seen something like them before, but to which you lack the key that will make them not trite, but shockingly individual.
The miraculous summer o...f 1989, when one hot blue day followed another, made pavement life as intense as in Paris or Rome, and our cafe had tables outside crammed against the aromatic offerings of a greengrocer. There everyone prefers to sit, but you are lucky to find a seat. Early in the summer two German girls appeared, large, attractive, uninhibitedly in search of boyfriends for their holidays. They were always together, usually outside, and for a few days sat alone eating the delicious cakes-genuinely French-that none can resist.MoreLess
The miraculous summer o...f 1989, when one hot blue day followed another, made pavement life as intense as in Paris or Rome, and our cafe had tables outside crammed against the aromatic offerings of a greengrocer. There everyone prefers to sit, but you are lucky to find a seat. Early in the summer two German girls appeared, large, attractive, uninhibitedly in search of boyfriends for their holidays. They were always together, usually outside, and for a few days sat alone eating the delicious cakes-genuinely French-that none can resist.MoreLess
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