Tarantula (aka. 'Mygale') (1984) by Thierry Jonquet

Author:Thierry Jonquet [Jonquet, Thierry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781846687945
Google: 3pnKbwAACAAJ
Amazon: 1846687942
Publisher: Serpents Tail
Published: 2011-12-13T22:00:00+00:00

T H I E R R Y J O N Q U E T 6 5

the normal way were martial arts magazines. Still, his eye

idly followed the zigzagging of the round ball as it was

systematically knocked around by the players. He sipped

the last of a glass of wine and began to nod off, not getting

up to turn off the set when the game ended. The next

show was a “medical special” on plastic surgery.

A commentator presented a report on lifts and other

facial reconstruction. Then came an interview with the

head of a hospital clinic in Paris, Professor Lafargue. Alex

was awake now, and riveted.

“The second stage,” Lafargue was saying, using a sketch as

a visual aid, “consists in the scraping of the periosteum with

what is called a raspatory. This is a very important phase. As

you see here, the purpose is to let the periosteum adhere to

the deepest layer of the skin so as to cushion it…”

On the screen appeared a series of photographs of faces

transformed, remodeled, sculpted, beautified. The patients

shown earlier were unrecognizable. Alex had followed

the explanation attentively, irritated that he did not

understand some of the terms used. When the end credits

rolled, he took down the name of the doctor, Lafargue,

and the name of the clinic where he worked.

Alex thought about the photograph on his identity card,

about the mercenary hospitality of his friend the legionnaire,

about the money hidden in the attic of his new abode…

Slowly but surely, everything was coming together!

The guy on the tube had claimed that a nose job was a

perfectly benign operation, just like the excision of fatty

tissues on certain parts of the face. A wrinkle? No problem:

the scalpel could wipe it away like an eraser.

Alex rushed to the bathroom and looked at himself in

the mirror. He fingered his face, the lump on his nose, the

cheeks that were too chubby, the double chin…

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