Let’s say an active silence, not a passive one. A swish, say ! Is that the word ? No : yeah, a voice sank to a whisper.

- Hello, How you doin’ ?

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- Oh well me, yeah, no problems. The snow and the winter, that doesn’t bother me. Uh ?

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- Quite a bit. Uh, we don’t see the house across the street, the Trinckett’s.

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- No, it’s not windy, it’s swirling flurries, you say ?

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- Na, not anymore, only during the summer.

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- If i still remember in the springtime, yeah, for sure, wi…

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- With pleasure even, I’ll tell ‘em ! Of course they will, they’ll remember you ! I don’t wanna take much of your time, but if you’ve got a few minutes, I got a new dream for you. That’s why I’m calling you again this week.

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- I think that you’re goin’ to like this one, but I don’ know what you’ll be able to get out of it. Have you got the time ? It’s a fully detailed one, this one.

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- Last night, well : early this morning. I didn’t ruminate over it yet, still …

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- Yeah…

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- Hot off the press ! I haven’t got over the shock, still.

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- Ok : all of a sudden I realize that I’m not all twisted together, all tangled up, intertwined with myself. What I mean is that my members are not twined with one another. That’s it. And I don’ know what to do, being like that. I’m caught off guard. Even if I’m feeling much better, I’m destitute. That’s a state I’m not familiar with. Then I realize I’m being called. It’s not a voice, it’s … hard to tell, really; it’s closer to a silent whisper.

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- Oh yeah, it is strange, diffi …

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- Of course not, i don’t make anything up while telling ! Let’s say an active silence, not a passive one. A swish, say ! Is that the word ? No : yeah, a voice sank to a whisper. Well, I know and that’s it. What’s more, it’s as if I was the one calling. I finally got closer to the window. The window next to my workbench, you know, in the basement, that little window giving on the neighbor’s hedge ? With my freed arms, I could open it and I saw buildings. Many buildings, it’s them that were calling me. And the impression …

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- Yeah they’re tall. And the impression I’m calling myself is even greater then. You know - I say that all the time - all I got to know of those towers, it’s their shadows. I never got inside one of those buildings, apartment tower or office. Well, not exactly true, I did when I had that courrier job, at twenny. Now they multiply all over the neighborhood near my old apartment, I saw them last fall when I hat to go back fo …

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- Yeah, yeah I’ve strayed, I know.

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- Oh yeah that’s just like me, no ?

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- Yes! The buildings : yes, they’re calling me.

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- Yeah, yeah … What ?

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- No, not by my name. But that’s me they’re calling, that’s for sure.

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- Uh well … I’d say, well as … [a whore looks at a client, can’t tell her this that way] … without talking, just by being … some kind of telepathy …

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- Soft, a soft voice, almost not a voice at all, but insisting. No … not insisting… [and not seductive either; it’d be so simple « as a whore »] what comes to my mind, cause their calling ushers a powerful desire in me, very powerful, is as a pulsion, or of a connivance. Get it ?

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- More, yeah …

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- An effect due to remoteness ?

- That I’m in plain need of an affair ? With a prostitute ! It is you who says that ? Ha !

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- I’ve known some, yeah, you know all that ! [but you never wants to hear it for real] And transvestites, and gigolos ! [there !] Aha ! You’re takin’ me for a ride ! Now that’s you who’s straying me !

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- On slippery slopes, yeah, way more disturbing for you than for me, that, usually ; but it’s …

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- Nah, never.

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- No - no. And that’s not the link, an’ what are’ll those questions ? [it’s as if she could read my mind…] It’s not in your habit ! […yet just not enough] A hooker, since you’re talking about it, let me explain : she only has to look at a man and he understands, there ain’t no words for that, there’s just no need ! This is the link, that’s where it stops, you follow me ?

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- Good.

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- Ok, the call of the flesh, if you want, if you insist, but it’s much more than that, oh ! Awfully more than that ! It’s strong as when I was a teen, still green ! It’s in the stomach ! Anyways, and it doesn’t take long, I’m trying to get out by the window, to see better, to touch them … get out but it’s too small a window, my shoulders can’t get through. But I can stretch my neck outside dam well, and then, each time I try, those buildings, they grow away, they go out of shape, or they hide behind a veil. In any case, I can’t never reach them as I wish. Then I wake up !

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- Yeah that’s it. That’s plenty enough !

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- Oh Maureen, you always ask for more ! You make me laugh !

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- Oh yeah, it is important. I feel quite aroused but also very sad : the two fight to come first.

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- No not anymore, the thrill’s gone now, while describing it. Ya, know, it’s an excitement from nowhere, without any reason, without even knowing why.

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- Yeah I know it is the buildings, but they’re only calling…

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- Exactly, as I woke up, yeah, it was just so, so strong ! I stayed in bed while your sister stirred about in the kitchen, because all that, it reversed into weariness in the end.

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- Yeah, if you like better, I was overcome by weariness, I’d say heavy. Heavy as I’ve never known…

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- Yes, it’s Miss Issippi that you’ve just heard.

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- She jumped on my lap : to go outside, I’m the one who let her out in the morning.

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- Well yeah, it is snowing, but she doesn’t know that. She never remembers from one time to another.

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- If I’ve tried to reach them often ? Yeah, well … more or less seven times, without counting.

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- I wanna touch them, yeah.

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- So, in the end, replete with this one, uh ?

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- Oh, you will even take the time to think it through before sharing your impressions !

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- Well yeah, you can call me anytime !

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- Ah that’s what you mean; worst case leave a message if I’m out for a walk.

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- Yeah, yeah.

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- A-what? Why buildings ? What do I know ? Because they stand up, uh, I don’ know !