« This environment gave off the threatening sensation that the walls could close and digest their contents at any moment. Vaulted like mine galleries, they offered the appearance of a stack of amber gelatinous cells encrusted with granules and covered with fibers, so that one felt like it was traveling inside a human organism. »

« "Isn't it beautiful?" exclaimed Jarid, standing in front of the bay of the living room open to the space. What is beautiful? palpitated Yasimin inlaid at the bottom of his vision. The Axis, of course. One of the ten wonders of the universe, according to the poets. (...) The Axis: a hollow cylinder thrown like a bridge between two twin worlds (...), 126,000 km long by 815 in diameter, while the walls do not exceed 6 meters in their thickest section. No one knew exactly what prompted the Vangks to build a diamond tube between two worlds. (A door on the ether, pages 189-190) »

« I remember my first step on Opulence, at the foot of the ship's ramp, when I thought I had crushed a rock and the pebble was bleeding on the moss; tears flowed down my mother's cheeks; I thought it was because of the rock... (In the short story "I Remember Opulence," Laurent Genefort uses an anaphoric writing process used by Perec to evoke a few moments in the life of a settler on the planet Opulence, from his childhood to his imminent death) »