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« Freedom is not a custard on a chocolate cake, it's a right. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly |
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly
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« She shows off the empty bottle she holds in her hand, leans in a delightfully imprecise gesture and blows a warm, hop-scented breath from her nose. - Breathe, Adrian, it's the scent of annoyance and boredom. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly |
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly
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« As a bourgeois who declares himself a friend of his gardener, Prior has convinced himself of this fiction of friendship, but Joanna is not fooled by anything. She discerns in prior's rictus the unspeakable south he carries on him, these signs and symbolic nuances that permeate all race relations, she recognizes this spontaneous posture that allows a rich white lady with well-placed hair to offer her black driver the most radiant of smiles, a smile of overwhelming affection where her imperious certainty of the natural inferiority of this grandson , that poisonous smile that hasn't moved an inch since Gone with the Wind and that her whole childhood Joanna saw on the powdered faces of her seamstress mother's white clients. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly |
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly
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