First Chapter First Paragraph — The 6:41 to Paris

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Release date: November 10, 2015
at New Vessel Press

153 pages

ISBN: 978-1939931269

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I could have taken the 7: 50, or even the 8: 53. It’s Monday. Mondays are dead quiet at work. It’s just that I couldn’t take it anymore. What was I thinking, staying Sunday night. I don’t know what came over me. Two days are more than enough.

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December 22, 2015

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Categories: Fiction, First Chapter First Paragraph, Paris, Travel Tags: Jean-Philippe Blondel, New Vessel Press, New York Times, Paris, train

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I wonder what defines me, now. What characteristics I had already ten, fifteen, or twenty years ago, and that I didn’t try to do anything about. Like separating the soft part of the bread from the crust and rolling it into tiny balls, while continuing to talk with someone, who would be transfixed, even concerned: he’s not going to go and eat those things, is he? Oh yes he is. Like making sure the alarm on the clock radio is set at the right time, checking four times in a row, otherwise I have to start all over. In another life, I must have had many obsessive-compulsive behaviors; in this life, that’s the only one I have.
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