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The women who sold their bodies at bargain prices until dawn moved around the house after eleven in the morning, when the heat from the stained glass became unbearable, and they were obliged to live their domestic life walking naked through the house while they shouted observations on the nights adventures. I was terrified.

Jeg var lykkelig, for på slaget tolv, da klokkene kimte vilt, da sirenene på fabrikker og brannbiler ulte, da båtene jamret, da kruttladningene smalt, da rakettene gikk til værs, merket jeg at Delgadina listet seg inn i rommet, la seg ved siden av meg og ga meg et kyss. Så virkelig at lukten av lakris ble hengende igjen i munnen min.

[D]et første symptom på alderdom er at man begynner å ligne sin far.

I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.