Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir by Emmanuel Carrère

Author:Emmanuel Carrère [Carrère, Emmanuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429973281
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-09-13T07:00:00+00:00

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One thing makes Étienne laugh when he talks about meeting Juliette: what went through his mind the first time he saw her. Someone knocked on his door; he said, Come in, and when he looked up, she was coming toward him on crutches. Wow! he thought. A gimp!

It’s not having had the thought that makes him laugh but that it just popped up ready-made in those three exact words, he swears—including the “Wow!” A moment later, above the crutches he saw a pleasing face, a lovely smile, something open, joyous, and grave, but what came first were the crutches. Her way of coming toward him on those crutches—he took that right away as a gift. And he immediately felt happy to be able to give her a present in return, and so simply: he merely stood up and came out from behind his desk to show her that even though he didn’t have crutches, he limped, too.

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