Alex

My sincere thanks to – in alphabetical order – Louis Aragon, Marcel Aymé, Roland Barthes, Pierre Bost, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cynthia Fleury, John Harvey, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Boris Pasternak, Maurice Pons, Marcel Proust and others for borrowing slightly here and there.

People say that the first minutes of any encounter encompass the whole relationship in miniature.

The golden boy leafing through the file, the tramp asking the questions and the dwarf at the back of the classroom with his colouring book.”