Silk by Alessandro Baricco

Author:Alessandro Baricco [Baricco, Alessandro]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-307-49095-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1997-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

35.

HERVé Joncour had never seen that girl, nor, really, did he ever see her, that night. In the room without lights he felt the beauty of her body, and knew her hands and her mouth. He loved her for hours, with gestures that he had never made, letting himself be taught a slowness that he didn't know. In the dark, it was nothing to love her and not to love her.

A little before dawn, the girl rose, put on the white kimono, and left.

36.

IN the morning, Hervé Joncour found a man from Hara Kei waiting for him, across from his house. He had with him fifteen sheets of mulberry bark, completely covered with eggs: tiny, ivory-colored. Hervé Joncour examined each sheet, carefully, then negotiated the price and paid in gold scales. Before the man left he made him understand that he wished to see Hara Kei. The man shook his head. Hervé Joncour understood, from his gestures, that Hara Kei had left that morning, early, with his entourage, and no one knew when he would return.

Hervé Joncour went through the village quickly, to the dwelling of Hara Kei. He found only some servants, who responded to every question by shaking their heads. The house seemed deserted. And although he looked carefully all around, even at the most insignificant things, he saw nothing resembling a message for him. He left the house and, returning to the village, passed the immense aviary. The doors were closed again. Inside, hundreds of birds were flying, sheltered from the sky.

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