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Highway 89, near Bitter Springs

Scene 13: Speed

How Hektor Maille needed to wait very, very long for the American dream – and how it crossed his mind at one point that the dream might once more simply race past him without braking, without indeed even taking the foot off the accelerator.


One Day in the Life of Odette Sissay

13.00: Port-Louis, Vieux Port, in front of the Aquarium

Now, it was time for a short intermission. Odette pulled off Marie's silver ring from her toe and pulled on a deep golden one on which was embossed the figure of a lion's head, which looked a bit like a logo on a car bonnet. That she always received a toe-ring as a gift was a fact worth mulling over – but Odette was not given to thinking about such things. She stood up and went through the door of the aquarium.