Les heures inégales

“A man looks at the shadow. It seems that it will soon cover him, pass over him and leave him blackened like a thick soot that is impossible to clean. A man looks at the road in front of him, or maybe just the crosswalk. A man looks. Sometimes, if you get very close, you can see him smoking a cigarette. The water, the shadow, the road, the cars, a cloud of tobacco: the man looks at what passes or what is passed over. Man looks at time.” Les heures inégales, Nina Ferrer-Gleize, p. 14. 14.