Ask Me Anything

By The Strokes

Louis Lamarre had neither job nor home, but he
did possess a few coins. At a grocery in Saint-
Denis, he bought a liter of kerosene and drank it.


At the Trianon Palace, a visitor disrobed and
climbed into the imperial bed. It is disputed
whether he is, as he claims, Napoleon IV.


Medical examination of a little boy found in a
ditch on the outskirts of Niort showed that he
had undergone more than just death.



-By Felix Feneon, from Novels in Three Lines.
Translated from the French by Luc Sante.