Sublime

Then dancers came by, and for a time obscured the view: old men and young ones, half-drunk or drunk entirely; girls clasped together and turning in stately circles; old lovers quick-stepping in practised concourse. Dazed by beer and music, Thomas saw all the threads that bound them in varieties of human bondage – knots made of habit, blood, resentm

This is what happens to a man who was made for a great love and not a suit when he does not feel the love. He closes in. He becomes weary. On the bus he looked out of the top-deck windows and saw less of life and felt less sturdy, less sexy, less rich. He was beginning to forget his magnificence. A darkness was coming down over his face like the pu

Baldwin

Jamal Basha

Pour l’amour de Nola, il se rendit donc au bal, de mauvaise grâce et seul. À peine arrivé, il regretta déjà sa décision : il se sentait mal à l’aise au contact de la foule. Pour se donner un semblant de contenance, il s’installa au bar et se fit servir quelques martinis tout en regardant les invités qui arrivaient au fur et à mesure.