About Me
On September 3, 1973 6:28 pm and 32 sec.
a blue fly of the Calliphorides species,
whose wings can flutter 14670 times per minute
landed in Saint-Vincent Street, Montmartre.
At the exact same second, outside a restaurant,
the wind was sweeping in under a tablecloth,
causing the glasses to dance without anybody noticing it.
At the same time, on the fifth floor of avenue Trudaine,
Eugène Koler, erased the name of his best friend, Émile Maginot,
in his adress-book after coming home from his funeral.
Still at the same second, a spermatozoon
containing an X-chromosome and belonging to M. Raphaël Poulain
was reaching the ovum of Mrs Poulain,
born Amandine Fouet.
months later a girl was born:
Amélie Poulain.
-Amélie's father was a former army doctor,
and was working at the hydropathic establishment of Enghien-les-Bains.
Raphaël Poulain doesn't like
peeing next to somebody else.
He doesn't like
noticing people laughing at his sandals .
.coming out of the water with his swimming suit sticking to his body
Raphaël Poulain likes
to tear big pieces of wallpaper off the walls
to line up his shoes and polish them with great care
to empty his toolbox,
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, put everything away carefully.
Amélie's mother, Amandine Fouet,
was a Primary School teacher from Gueugnon,
she had always been unstable and nervy.
She doesn't like to have her fingers all wrinkled by hot water.
She doesn't like it when somebody she doesn't like
touches her,
to have the marks of the sheets on her cheek in the morning.
She likes the outfits of the ice-skaters on TV.
to shine the flooring.
to empty her handbag
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, putting everything away carefully.
Amélie is years old.
She would like her father to hold her in his arms from time to time.
But the only contact they have is during the monthly medical check-up.
Moved by this intimacy, the little girl
can't stop her heart from beating wildly.
As a result,
her father believes she suffers from a heart disease.
Because of this fictitious illness, she doesn't go to school.
Her mother acts as her private tutor (...)
