“The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.”

— Jean-Dominique Bauby, book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death), trans. Jeremy Leggatt (Vintage, 1998, ISBN 0-375-70121-4), p. 82

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