Paris Trance: A Romance by Dyer Geoff

Author:Dyer, Geoff [Dyer, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotica, Travel, Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9780857863409
Amazon: B007NY6CWG
Goodreads: 19142807
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1998-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

‘Alex est son partenaire,’ laughed Nicole.

‘They’re like that aren’t they?’

‘Et nous sommes les Indiens.’

‘Actually, that’s been a big breakthrough for Alex. We’re partners. Which is a very new thing for him. A few weeks ago he came across something in Saint-Exupéry about how love means not looking at the other person but looking in the same direction. He’s taken to that like a religious conversion. I sometimes think we’re more like friends than . . .’

Sahra paused because Nicole appeared distracted. She was thinking about Luke and, for the first time, was troubled by the way he looked at her, the way he was so obsessed by her beauty, by having the proof of his happiness before his eyes.

‘I’m sorry,’ said Nicole. ‘I was thinking about something you said. Go on.’

‘No, it was nothing. Nothing important.’

‘Really?’

‘Yes.’

‘Do you ever think about the future?’

‘Funny question. Why do you ask?’

‘Because I never do.’

‘I don’t either. I think that’s one of the things about taking E. It becomes impossible to think about the future. The present becomes all-consuming. Or at least the past extends back only as far as the weekend before.’

‘And the future as far as the weekend to come.’

‘Yes. It’s actually a stupid drug, don’t you think? You never have any thoughts at all when you’re on it, let alone interesting ones.’

‘That’s probably why the boys like it so much.’

‘No thought, only sensation.’

‘It is bad for your head though, don’t you think? It takes so long to get over it, and even when it’s over it’s not over. Two days later you mean to say one word and another comes out. You want to say chair and you say table.’

‘You do that anyway Nicole!’

‘That was only in English. Now I’m doing it in French too.’

‘Maybe we should think about the future,’ said Sahra. ‘Shall we try it now?’

‘OK.’

‘Ready?’

‘Yes.’

‘Go.’ They shut their eyes and thought hard for several moments, holding hands as if at a badly attended séance.

‘Well?’ said Sahra.

‘Nothing.’

‘Me neither. Unless you count Christmas presents that we still haven’t bought.’

‘That’s better than me. When I try to think about the future I always end up thinking of the past. As if they were the same thing, as if the future had already happened.’

‘How do you mean?’

‘Well, Luke and I slept together the first night we went out and I think that’s why. Although I hardly knew him it was as if I already knew him, as if we already had slept together. It wasn’t like he seduced me – I don’t think he’d know how to seduce anyone – or I seduced him. It was the most unsurprising thing that has ever happened. In some ways I feel I’ve always known him.’

‘I know what you mean,’ said Sahra. ‘I can’t imagine you not being with each other. Maybe it’s because I met you both at the same time.’

‘I can’t imagine not being with him either,’ said Nicole. ‘But I can imagine him not being with me – but I can’t imagine him being with anyone else.

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