Boxes by Pascal Garnier

Author:Pascal Garnier [Garnier, Pascal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910477144
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 2015-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

It was Sunday then. The bell was going full swing. Getting through Sunday was a lengthy business, very lengthy.

How many of them had he lived through? Hundreds, thousands, all identical, those interminable Sundays which, from earliest childhood, inure us to boredom as to a drug. The morning was all right: there was the market, the smell of roast chicken drifting through the house, the clouds of eau de Cologne from the bathroom where, for once, everyone had been able to take their time. The midday meal was a sort of Christmas dinner. But, winter or summer, by three o’clock it was as sombre as All Saints’ Day. If you were not snoring, hands on belly, in front of the TV which was going round like a washing-machine drum, then you would go down to meet your mates in the car park, a football tucked under your arm. The older you became, the less use you made of the ball. It was taken for a walk like a faithful old dog. Sitting on a low concrete wall, you would roll it around distractedly beneath your foot while you played, ‘What would you do if you won the lottery?’ Unlike their fathers who had always played it safe, putting their money on houses, cars, dogs and wives, their dreams still had a certain class: pilot (any sort), pop star, adventurer. Everyone knew it was wrong to aspire to a different future from the one their parents had in mind for them: engineer (any sort), civil servant, lawyer, doctor. But time was still on their side.

There was an unbelievable number of beer caps stuck into the tarmac, a Kronenbourg galaxy amid which the ball was kicked haphazardly back and forth. Later, when the streetlights came on and the sky imitated the car park, everyone went home. Sometimes the ball was left behind. After the big film, Monday was as good as there.

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