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trouvée en short en train d’arroser <strong>le</strong>s plantes, ou nue dans la sal<strong>le</strong> de<br />

bains, s’étaient-ils abandonnés au désir ? De cet oubli lui-même, qui se<br />

répéta, il ne se souvint qu’à chaque réapparition des pierres écrites, en<br />

voiture sur <strong>le</strong> Harbour Bridge, ou en traversant la rue à pied, devant<br />

Centennial Park. Kathy, pensait-il alors avec un étonnement mitigé de<br />

gêne et de satisfaction, <strong>le</strong> distrayait de ce qui n’était pas el<strong>le</strong>. De presque<br />

tout en somme dans une vie qui avait accumulé tant d’éloignement et<br />

ressassé morbidement de si courts bonheurs. Il n’avait jamais possédé de<br />

photographies de M. Lui en eût-el<strong>le</strong> proposé, il ne <strong>le</strong>s aurait sans doute<br />

pas acceptées, tant il voulait — avait voulu — rester sans <strong>le</strong> moindre intermédiaire,<br />

l’unique responsab<strong>le</strong> des mécanismes producteurs de l’image,<br />

<strong>le</strong> gardien d’une vision, non <strong>le</strong> possesseur d’une vue. Or <strong>le</strong>s pierres écrites,<br />

à chacune de <strong>le</strong>urs fugitives mais saisissantes occurrences, tendaient à se<br />

mettre un peu plus en travers de l’image menta<strong>le</strong>, tel, dans un cauchemar,<br />

un portrait de M. qui aurait parlé pour el<strong>le</strong> et reflété pour el<strong>le</strong> la lumière<br />

du ciel immense, la réduisant au si<strong>le</strong>nce, lui fermant <strong>le</strong>s yeux devant la<br />

fine et l’infime géométrie des signes que <strong>le</strong> temps universel trace devant<br />

nous sur <strong>le</strong>s plages humides.<br />

<br />

MURIEL HAD THE strangest dream last night. It was after<br />

one of her many rows with Joël. The boy, who was finishing<br />

his first year in Architecture, had rented a room in<br />

Camperdown, in an unrestored terrace house shared with variab<strong>le</strong> friends.<br />

The house proudly exhibited peeling multilayered greenish paint on its<br />

stucco front, a sagging veranda, an old fridge and a pair of black vinyl<br />

armchairs under the ground floor window. For her, who did not think she<br />

had anything to prove, as far as her Australianness was concerned, this<br />

setting stank of unnecessary ockerism. Joël, on the other hand, wished<br />

she could tell him exactly what was wrong with their relationship; he<br />

did not say it was his “first love”, she was his love in no order at all.<br />

After a few weeks in the house, everything from his comp<strong>le</strong>xion to his<br />

vision of history had become involved with dated layers of dust and<br />

the relative yellowishness of past summer and winter news. The smells<br />

(bucketfuls of tea <strong>le</strong>aves, dry rot in the floor boards, <strong>le</strong>aky piping, the<br />

music of Santana in vinyl and the philosophy of William Morris in soi<strong>le</strong>d<br />

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