The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier

Author:Pascal Garnier [Garnier, Pascal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908313232
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 2012-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

The only thing left in the freezer compartment was a huge calf’s tongue studded with ice crystals. It was otherwise empty, just like the apartment. Gabriel had spent the day waiting for it to defrost on the chopping board. A whole day watching the mute tongue’s slow thaw. He didn’t have anything else to do. At about seven o’clock he threw the tongue into a pot of simmering stock and made a punchy sauce with tomatoes, gherkins and shallots. There was enough to feed an army. He ate it all though, the tongue that said nothing, out on the terrace, until it made him sick. All that remained were fragments of bone and cartilage. The telephone had rung as he vomited, his head over the toilet bowl, his hands gripping the porcelain sides. It didn’t matter. He didn’t have anything to say to anybody. Wrapped in the cats’ tartan rug, he made his way back out onto the terrace. It was warm but he shivered as he looked up at the sickle moon scything the stars. Usually, at this time, Juliette would have been asleep, sucking her thumb, and Blandine would have been drawing at her work bench with the cats running around. But he had just vomited a whole calf’s tongue and had run out of words to describe the night and the sea and what he was still doing alive.

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