With the arrival of the night some of his words, like the intermittent flare [Here, I detected a point of inflection provoked by the peculiar nature of desire. Which came to me even faster than imagination since it needs not move at all, waiting hidden always everywhere] of a cigarette, called my attention to a luminous moment before it faded away.
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