A Taste of Life...

A short story by Patrick Besset
Translation from French by Lisa Vergara

Other avalaible editions :

• French edition
• Bilingual French-English (US) edition 

In overworking one’s conscience, your reason risks unraveling. To lose his desire to drink, he drank. To not feel himself drinking, he drank often. Sometimes, he drank so as not to remember.... And since he was unreasonable, he continued drinking to erase his life. He drank even more to try to understand its utility... 

Like a soaked sponge, Piccolo is crying... his memories overflowing.... He was an insignificant but respectable person; you could forgive the boldness in his tone of voice ; you could appreciate his passionate rhetoric... He revered poetry. He married a spoiled girl who made a puppet of her fiancé; out of a free man she created a weak husband. He had become spineless as well as the unsuspecting laughing stock of their friends. He had not known how to impose his dreams nor his wishes... the moment he married his wife, he submerged himself in those of his wife. No more strolls in the park, his wife didn’t like to walk. No more of his so-called paintings on white cartons, she didn’t like his paintings. No more drives with his buddies, she didn’t like his buddies. No more free will...

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A Taste of Life
Short story by Patrick Besset.
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ISBN : 979-10-92471-06-9
(Kindle edition)