The Doll's Alphabet

Happy Canada Day’ poster

Peter had to point out that he had covered the English translation side of the Latin books with sheets of coloured paper

I was drawn to Latin because it didn’t belong to anybody, there were no native speakers to laugh at me.

I hated wearing costumes, I hadn’t done so since I was eight: I believed I was so ugly, I couldn’t disguise myself as anything else.

a set of erotic cards depicting women with exotic animals (lion, elephant, etc.),

He was not a Baron, just as his younger brother was not a Count, and his older brother not a Prince, but those were the first names their wealthy industrialist father had given them

Once, for Bernadette, he had stuck a small envelope in a larger envelope, on and on till he had used every kind of envelope he could find—it resembled a parcel.

I still took great pleasure in food, with the exception of fish and jam. Fish did not seem natural, but mechanical somehow, perhaps because of their silver skins.

I had a dream that I removed all my teeth and glued them to the walls. I removed Agata’s teeth too, but they were stained and crooked, as in real life. As soon as I extracted them they started to grow until they were the size and length of elephant tusks. They smelled like soiled laundry and were covered in tiny black cavities

Our bodies were nuisances to the enjoyment of the machine.