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The homosexual young men and the amorous girls, and the long widows who suffer from delirious insomnia, and the young wives thirty hours pregnant, and the raucous cats that cross my garden in the dark, like a necklace of throbbing sexual oysters, they surround my solitary residence, like enemies established against my soul, like conspirators in nightclothes who had exchanged long thick kisses by command.
The radiant summer leads the loved ones in uniform melancholy regiments, made of fat and skinny and happy and sad couples: beneath the elegant coconut trees, next to the ocean and the moon, there is a continuous life of trousers and skirts, a rustle of stroked silk stockings, and feminine breasts that shine like eyes.