«This was a time, the early 1970s, when Katharine and Conrad and Jean and Brian Moore and John and I traded plants and dogs and favors and recipes and would have dinner at one or another of our houses a couple of times a week» (p. 72-73).
«“X” was a woman with whom I had worked at Vogue. Seductive clouds of cigarette smoke and Chanel No. 5 and imminent disaster had trailed her through the Condé Nast offices, which were the in the Graybar Building» (p. 108).
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking, Londres, 4th Estate, 2012, 227 p. Ill. Édition originale : 2005.
(Une définition du zeugme ? Par là.)