← It’s not by chance that you are sitting there in front of me? 🔊✎
← You won’t catch anything. We’re all chasing each other like horses on a carousel, we can never catch the one in front: you can be sure they’ve fixed it like that. 🔊✎
← In front of me? But you aren’t … you can’t! 🔊✎
← Why not? I used to get undressed in front of my maid. 🔊✎
← Was I supposed to go to the general and say “Sir, I am not leaving for the front?” That would have been pretty stupid. They’d just have put me inside. I needed to witness, that was my role, witness! I wasn’t going to let them silence me. 🔊✎
← Well, this is the moment. The bronze is in front of me, I’m looking at it, and I know I’m in hell. 🔊✎
← I tell you, they’ve planned everything. They knew I’d be standing in front of this mantelpiece, pressing my hand against this bronze, with all these eyes staring at me. All these eyes eating me up alive … 🔊✎