Crap Cocktails

work: she’d be the one who looked like a stripper. I suppose the mental image I had in my head was of a dyed-blonde giant of a woman, with enormous fake tits, wearing a thong and perhaps some kind of plumage in her hair. Sitting in a bar, drinking a cocktail with an umbrella. On walking in, there was no sign of anyone looking even remotely like a stripper. A bored looking barman wiped down his bar while a busboy scooted around trying to look busy. Perhaps Mimi was in the toilet adjusting her feathers

| |chapitre 6 |Le calque | EXERCICE 1 1. She invited me to a cocktail. (a cocktail party) 2. Elle me regarda avec un sourire bénévole (benevolent = bienveillant) 3. La journée pour Paris ne dure que deux heures. (journey = voyage) 4. Mr Smith est absent, mais vous pouvez voir son député. (deputy= adjoint)

chauds et doux ! En plus, ils sentent la brioche, se félicita-t-il en humant le petit tas de linge. Devant le miroir, il les enfila, satisfait, ajustant son caleçon, lissant le tee-shirt dont il aimait particulièrement le flocage : OUT OF BEER (life is crap)1 Son ventre gargouilla. Affamé, il ouvrit le réfrigérateur et farfouilla parmi les aliments avant de tenter un mélange hasardeux. Sur une tranche de pain de mie, il tartina une belle couche de beurre de cacahuètes qu’il recouvrit de sardines à

illformed notion of their appearance. He was lean, wiry, rachitic. Dressed in a pair of filthy blue coveralls and a black billcap with the logo of some vanished enterprise embroidered across the front of it. Where are you going? I was going to take a crap. Where are you going with the truck. I dont know. What do you mean you dont know? Take the mask off. He pulled the mask off over his head and stood holding it. I mean I dont know, he said. You dont know where you're going? No. What's the truck running