La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams

1

Towers

Near La Rochelle, where I’ve just spent a few days with a woman I didn’t know very well. She is driving. She keeps getting lost, trying to get back to the large tower that stands in the center of town.

2

We can also see the tower on the horizon, straight up ahead. We go in that direction. The road is straight. We pass several statues and monuments: the statue of Liberty, large buildings with apartments like cells in a beehive. At last, I am seeing real examples of the contemporary architecture I’d only encountered in books! These are only housing projects, barely finished and already old …

3

We get to the station running very late.

We walk past the ticket window without paying. We get onto a train (where are our bags? what did we do with the car?)

There are no seats.

The train is packed.

Our itinerary, it seems, joins up directly with the métro, or with a circle railway. It seems like we’re being negligent, that we should take advantage of such correspondences more often …

4

Crossing? Tunnel?

5

In Paris, we look for a taxi. We have to cross a vast esplanade where the fascist “New Order” movement has organized an automobile gymkhana.

Seems to me we’re not far from the Bois de Vincennes …