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>what extent she had heard but not listened to, heard him but couldn’t believe her ears or pretending not to have heard him, in objective terms haphazardly kept the channel of communication open. A “Pardon?” which, despite his initial astonishment, didn’t take him long to realize that, if nothing else, offered him just like a scratch card does anoth-er free try, which wasn’t exactly up to him whether he’d take advantage of or not, so the only question was how. “Such a spunky devil this Ayn Rand, isn’t she? Don’t you think?” he asked this time, not giving it much thought, in no time extorting a smile from her. He was cheering massively within.

Half an hour later he was also extorting, much like vicomte de Valmont stole one by one Madame de Tourvel’s clothes (pg.121), her name, the transition to first-name basis, the promise to see each other again and her phone number.

A little while later, just when they had said their good-byes, his gaze accompanied her all the way to the bookstore’s exit, coldly evaluating her silhouette, not without a certain amount of anxiety just in case, at the very last moment, he discovered any defects. He was

+ or acting like she was pretending not to have heard him.

Even though it’s plain as day that you’ve been thinking about this for months now.

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relieved to ascertain that the following phrase from a novel he had recently read suited her perfectly: “She had a bit of extra meat on her, but, luckily, in all the right places.”18 It would surely be somewhere nearby.

18 David Lodge, A man of parts, London, Harvill Secker, 2011.

+ funnily enough, the only one that his memory had retained out of an entire 500-page book.

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Chapter 12

It had gone dark outside when the doorbell rang. It was probably the building janitor, such late-night in-trusions were his forte. He got up to get the door. The computer screen glowed in the dimly lit living room. Here’s what an external observer would discern until it automatically turned off:

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In order to realise that it essentially was supposed to be a text, one need not have a very high IQ, just some common sense. The same applied to what sort of a text it was and what it said

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