... She says she stays in the town in the summer. She lives not far away, in the university town where she was born. She's a provincial.
She's very fond of the sea, and especially this part of the coast. She hasn't got a place of her own here. She lives in a hotel. She prefers that; it's better, in the summer. From the point of view of housekeeping, breakfast, lovers.
He starts to listen. He's the sort of man who listens to everything he's told with equal passion. You can't make out why."
Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair, p. 43
