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Mood of November 4

I've already gone and gone.

Eventually I'll be back, or so I think.

But this time I'm sad to leave you, Algiers.

More than all the other times.

It goes without saying that you never see a place the way it was.

But sometimes, and it's very rare, the places we know reveal themselves as they were on the first day.

A first time.

This time there was something first-time about you.

Something from November, something from before the world.

Something from first love.

I'm sad to leave you, Algiers.

 

Je suis déjà parti et reparti.

Je finis par revenir, enfin je le crois.

Mais cette fois je suis triste de te quitter, Alger.

Plus que toutes les autres fois.

On ne revoit jamais un lieu comme il était, cela va de soi.

Il arrive cependant que parfois, et c’est très rare, les lieux que nous connaissons se révèlent comme au premier jour.

Une première fois.

Cette fois tu avais un quelque chose de première fois. 

Un quelque chose de premier novembre, un quelque chose d’avant le monde. 

Un quelque chose de premier amour.


Je suis triste de te quitter, Alger.

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