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“Paris rawly waking, crude sunlight on her lemon streets.”
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The yellow houses of Dublin remind Stephen of Paris. He remembers the city waking amid bread, absinthe, cafés, sexuality and ordinary working life, before his memory moves to a lunchtime conversation with the Irish exile Kevin Egan. Over food, cigarettes
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