Paris Trance

Acknowledgements

The text contains the following samples from Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises) by Ernest Hemingway:

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‘There were lighted bars and late open shops on each side of the street.’

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‘a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands’

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Alex’s ‘glass was empty.’

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‘A man and a [woman] passed. They were walking with their arms around each other.’

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‘Across the river were the broken walls of old houses that were being torn down.’

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‘the music hit you as you went in’

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‘Lavigne’s was closed tight, and they were stacking the tables outside [. .] Lilas.’

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‘It was amazing champagne.’

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‘It was raining hard outside.’

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‘He took a big gulp of coffee’

These lines were quoted from the following sources:

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‘O light. . their fate.’: Albert Camus, Selected Essays and Notebooks, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1970, p. 152.

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‘a force of. . long nights.’: John Cheever, The Journals, Cape, London, 1991, p. 119.

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‘Happiness. . they lead.’: slightly misquoted from Camus, op cit., p. 98.

Although this book is dedicated to two friends, I would also like to share it with Tim, Hania, Charlie, Rupert, and Ollie Gross. And Valeria, of course.

I would also like to thank Alexandra Pringle and Richard Beswick for their persistence, Antonia Hodgson for overseeing the manuscript’s progress, patiently and scrupulously, and Ethan Nosowsky for much-valued trans-Atlantic advice and friendship.