Intersecting glances - Revision history

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In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping.
A girl comes along, twirling a parasol on her shoulder, and twirling slightly also her rounded hips. A woman in black comes along, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling.
A tattooed giant comes along; a young man with white hair; a female dwarf; two girls, twins, dressed in coral. Something runs among them, san exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure and another and draw arrows, stars

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 In CHLOE, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping.
-A girl comes along, twirling a paraol her on her shoulder, and twirling slightly also her rounded hips. A woman in black comes along, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling. A tattooed giant comes along; a young man with white hair; a female dwarf; two girls, twins, dressed in coral. Something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one future and another and draws arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on the scene: a blind man with a cheetah on a leash, a courtesan with an ostrich plume fan, an eephebe, a Fat Woman. And thus, when some people happen to find themselves tougher, taking shelter from rain under an arcade, or crowding beneath an awning of a bazaar, or stopping to listen to the band in the square, meetings, seductions, copulations, orgies are consummated among them without a word exchanged, without a finger touching anything, almost without an eye raised.
+A girl comes along, twirling a paraol her on her shoulder, and twirling slightly also her rounded hips. A woman in black comes along, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling. A tattooed giant comes along; a young man with white hair; a female dwarf; two girls, twins, dressed in coral. Something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with  another and draws arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on the scene: a blind man with a cheetah on a leash, a courtesan with an ostrich plume fan, an ephebe, a Fat Woman. And thus, when some people happen to find themselves together, taking shelter from rain under an arcade, or crowding beneath an awning of a bazaar, or stopping to listen to the band in the square, meetings, seductions, copulations, orgies are consummated among them without a word exchanged, without a finger touching anything, almost without an eye raised.
 A voluptuous vibration constantly stirs Chloe, the most chaste of cities. If men and women began to live their ephemeral dreams, every phantom would become a person with whom to begin a story of pursuits, presences, misunderstandings, clashes, oppressions and the carousel of fantasies would stop.