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Zenobia is the teenage daughter of the bourgeois Dupont family. Along
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Start: Zenobia: What day is it? Mug: Monday, Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, Easter, Christmas, Whitsunday, Wet Sunday, or no Sunday at all, probably.
End: Zenobia: I’ll unnail the planks…I want to go down…I want to go and see who’s living in our place. Yes, I want to go all the way down, as far as the room I used to have, when I had a phonograph and could listen to music. Mug: Lie down again. Get back into bed. Stretch out. Rest. Calm down.
Citation: Boris Vian, The Empire Builders, Grove Press Inc., 1967, pp. 33-37.
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