Asleep, Patrick sees what he doesn’t believe while he’s awake.

The index calculates everything. Announcements of awards, mostly false, light up then die. His dopamine balance feeds the list. Limbic structures support it. Brain means house, should have windows. But they’re slow shutter pictures of the past.

Five minutes past four, Patrick is woken up by a noise. He’s lying in the small room. Renate is sleeping in the big one.

“Maybe I’ll get an idea during the night,” he had justified his move to the couch, “Then I’ll have to send it to them. We’re sending the thing off tomorrow.” He was afraid of saying what he knew about Kerstin in his sleep, while lying next to Renate. In the darkness he feels the room buzzing at him. His brain answers the hum, singing sugar and protein, talking perineural network that controls the form and function of the synapses which guide all...

Jamais je n’aurais dû l’embaucher. Il avait pourtant l’air d’avoir toutes les compétences requises pour remplacer mon cuisinier habituel. Schneider s’était mis en arrêt maladie pour ce qui menaçait de devenir un temps indéterminé, et c’est comme cela que je me suis retrouvé tout naturellement à embaucher ce petit homme trapu qui parlait un allemand approximatif. Les affaires devaient continuer à tourner, après tout, les clients avaient faim.

Souvent, les relations complexes que l’on entretient au quotidien et qui s’accompagnent d’un code indéchiffrable ne sont pas suffisamment claires. C’est seulement une fois que les choses nous ont échappé que l’on comprend comment fonctionnaient leurs mécanismes de régulation : comment Schneider organisait ses achats, comment il donnait ses indications à ses aides-cuisiniers, comment il composait ses plats et avec quelle fidélité il s’efforçait de faire avancer mon affaire.

L’aide-cuisinier travaillait en apparence exactement comme lui. Il faisait aussi ses achats lui-même. Il cuisinait de...

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I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.”
“No,” he said, “but I see you have string!”
“If this comes into motion—” I said, “you should use a rope.”
“Any poison ivy on that? ” he asked me, and I told him my rope had been in the barn peacefully for years.
He took a length of it to the bedside table. He had no concept for what wood could endure.
“Table must have broken when I lashed it onto the truck,” he said.
And, when he was moving the sewing machine, he let the cast iron wheels—bang, bang on the stair.
I had settled down to pack up the flamingo cookie jar, the cutlery, and the cookware, but stopped briefly, for how many times do you catch sudden sight of something heartfelt?
I saw our milk cows in their slow...

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