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I've brought a beautiful work
by Marguerite Duras,
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"The Lover".
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"Fifteen and a half.
It's the crossing of the river."
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"I'm wearing a silk dress.
It's worn, almost transparent."
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"It was my mother's.
One day, thinking it too light,
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she gave it to me."
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"This dress is sleeveless
and very low-cut."
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"It has the brownish tones
that silk takes on with age."
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"It's a dress I remember.
I think it suits me."
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"I wear a leather belt, belonging
perhaps to one of my brothers."
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"I do not recall the shoes
I wore during those years,
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only certain dresses."
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"Mostly, I am barefoot
with canvas sandals."
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"That day I must wear
those high-heels in gold lamé."
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"I don't see what else
I could have worn that day."
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"So I wear them."
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"A reduced bargain
my mother bought me."
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"I wear the gold lamé shoes to school."
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"I go to school in evening shoes
decorated with little paste jewels."
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"It is my wish..."
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Admirable...
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Unquestionably admirable.
How can one resist?
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You, you are admirable.
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It's you I want, not the book.
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I've thought of nothing but you
since our last session.
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Look...
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Look at us.
Don't you think we suit each other?
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No.
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And this way? I'm free,
so are you, let's get married.
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No.
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Not free?
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But why aren't you?
It's a tragedy.
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No, I am free, a little, quite free,
or not, it depends. But I don't marry.