Gaito Gazdanov's Paris / 16 (Danger)
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Taxi involved in a traffic accident, Paris, December 1938

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Gaito Gazdanov's Paris / 16

Danger

[A] customer would become my companion for the time being; during the space of a few minutes we would share the danger, more or less real, of an accident: it could happen that I and the man or woman with me would find ourselves on the Parisian pavement with our bodies broken, our breath failing.

Such a shared fate would have tied us together with stronger links than a long-time acquaintance would have, or even a blood relationship. [221]

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