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Reading Nijinsky
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Reading Nijinsky
Suite pour un visage, Montréal, Éditions du Carré Saint-Louis, 1970.
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“Do you know that this is the first time I’ve ever had the opportunity of speaking with one of my readers?”
She defends herself: that’s not all she reads. It’s only when she’s tired or restless. Otherwise she reads more serious works, literature, essays on the meaning of life. She suggests we call each other by the familiar tu instead of vous, now that we’ve opened up to each other. I offer her a cigarette. We smoke in silence. Gin and cigarettes are good for the health, for mental health, that is. Because physical health… Cancer lies in wait for us, it seems, insidiously delving its tentacles into our organs. What a tragedy, this description of my poor charred lungs. They were pink at birth, what did I do to them? My soul was white, my heart pure, and my hymen intact, that’s how I was. What did I do to everything given to me in good condition?
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