L’enchaînement narratif
à la manière de Irving, cet art constamment décalé, attendu et impromptu à la
fois, de l’humour (on se demande toujours ce qui va suivre) – la scène du
réveillon à Bohol, Philippines, conversation entre Clark French et Miriam
autour de la table :
« […] “After
dinner, we take a sightseeing boat up the river.”
“In the dark,” Miriam said flatly. “What’s there to see
in the dark?”
“Fireflies—there must be thousands. The fireflies are
spectacular,” Clark said.
“What do the fireflies do—besides blink?” Miriam asked.
“The fireflies blink spectacularly,” Clark insisted.
Miriam shrugged. “Blinking is what those beetles do for courtship,”
Miriam said. “Imagine if the only way we could come on to one another was to blink!”
Whereupon she started blinking at Juan Diego, who blinked back at her; they
both began to laugh.
Dr. Josefa Quintana also laughed; she blinked across the
dinner table at her husband, but Clark French was not in a blinking mood. “The
fireflies are spectacular,” he repeated, in the manner of a schoolteacher who
has lost control of the class.
The way Miriam was blinking her eyes at Juan Diego gave
him a hard-on. […] » (Avenue of Mysteries, Knopf,
2015, p. 239-240).
