PARTS OF MICHAEL

It was dark when Michael left the building of the bank where he worked. A huge Xmas tree in the lobby was glowing, competing with many other seasonal decorations in shops and institutions along the Brussels Inner Ring. It was mid-November, a day after his birthday and an evening of his therapy session.
‘Now, who would voluntarily come to the world in the middle of a war winter 1944?’ The therapist did not answer the question, she knew it was a rhetoric, and the best was to let Michael keep talking. He was half lying in a comfortable chair, his eyes moving behind closed lids.
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Avant de vous expliquer comment cela se passe au Paradis, je dois d’abord vous dire que l’Enfer n’existe pas. Je sais … On vous a sans doute raconté autre chose au catéchisme. Mais c’est un fait : Dieu a créé ce lieu céleste pour y accueillir tout le monde : les gentils, les grandes gueules, les héros, les lâches et même les politiciens – à condition qu’ils n’ennuient pas les autres avec leurs monologues. 

