"We do things with others, or we do not do them. Without the other, it does not exist. (...)" P268

the enthusiasm he manages to convey us through his just imagined writing a young adult of 18 years, has allowed me to follow him with passion in his American years; he received a scholarship that allowed him to integrate the campus of a prestigious university in Virginia, we are in 1956, the boys together, the "Negroes" confined in degrading work, living with each other, that no relationship other than dominant in subhuman is tolerated ... him, the Frenchie will be a hidden secret relationship with a "colored" as much love as sexual But above carnal because everything else is forbidden, had its first time ... this is the year of the first times, of all discoveries in the realm of political correctness before time, he wants as his rich classmates, mimics it perfectly, and he succeeded brilliantly, it remains "abroad" but it is accepted ... we follow his daily seasonal season in this deeply segregationist South America where TV is still unusual, where the young Elvis Presley has just appeared, date by date up at the peak of the Spring Ball, Christmas in Texas in the wealthy family of a fellow ... in short it gives us a clear look and just as much of this fascinating than frightening America through her eyes they had to And this time it analyzes some situations with the eyes of mature man at the time of writing.

"I was playing, now my peculiarity. You learn to like. We like sound. We take advantage of this situation which gives foreign posture of the actors, the importance of the role appears three-quarters of the room. Their novelty, their lack of root inside the comedy that preceded the distinguished group. I was there in the fall, but suddenly in the spring, now we discovered me and I took great pleasure. "

"- By cons, he continued, if there is no law that prohibits dawdling among the negroes of a Sunday afternoon in spring, there are customs here, you see, my boy And. customary to not set foot in these motherfuckers negroes, under any circumstances, do you, boy. This is not the law, but it is the custom. "