Midnight Memories

enjoying the rare and new pleasure. From the moment when they started she sur- rendered herself completely, body and soul, to the soft, gliding motion over the waves. She was not thinking ; her mind was not wandering through either memories or hopes ; it seemed to her as though her heart, like her body, was floating on something soft and liquid and delicious which rocked and lulled it. When their father gave the word to return, M Come, take your places at the oars ! " she

however, the exact opposite is true. Stability means nothing. Audience attention spans are short and a million Next Big Things are always around the corner. Fads can be created in the morning, be hugely profitable by lunch time and dead in the water by midnight. Never have wealth and fame been so easy to achieve, and so quick to vanish. Trends change so fast that the best many new media moguls can do is ‘get in, get rich, move on’. And no one in this room tonight exemplifies that ideology better than Alex

money (half a million dollars in unmarked banknotes / bills) in a duffel bag to a nearby park. He had to follow a specific route from the mansion where he lived. He was required to park in a downtown lot and to follow an alley to the drop site at midnight. He was attacked halfway through the alley. – Eric was knocked / hit on the head. But he was not knocked out. However he could only see his aggressor’s back, although the action took place near / by a street lamp. That’s why his description was vague

d’œil à mon calepin sur le siège de cuir blanc. À côté de son lieu de naissance, j’ai noté une douzaine de mots. Dont un oui ma’am et un non ma’am. La voix de Patsy Cline diffusée par Radio WJDX m’accompagne sur la route. Elle chante Walking After Midnight. Quand je m’engage dans l’allée de Hilly, on est passé à Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray. L’avion de Patsy Cline s’est écrasé ce matin et, de New York à Seattle en passant par le Mississippi, on la célèbre et on diffuse ses chansons. Je gare la