

He also likes Sicily, and islands in general, because "it is easier to dominate them." (It’s important to remember that he has a penchant for islands.).It’s just that he forces himself to like it. Jean-Baptiste admires the deathly smell of decaying foliage along the canals not that’s morbid at all, he explains.He suggests you go for a walk, and you agree. Even tonight, now, as he’s talking to you, he feels a little under the weather, maybe because of the heavy air.He started "unlearning" how to live – something which, as he claimed earlier, he had never had to learn in the first place. He oscillated between being excited and being depressed. He also started having some health problems.Every time he crossed the Seine, he would get nervous. Still, though, he stopped walking along the water in Paris.About that laugh: he thought about it, he says, for a few days after the mysterious night, but then he forgot it happened.Anyway, because of your curiosity, he’ll continue with his story.(Remember his whole discussion about understanding and friendship? You might want to go back and check that out again.)

Jean-Baptiste begins by thanking you for your curiosity.
