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But really, the problem is that Laurence is bored by absolutely everything except her daughter and, but only in the first throes of passion, by sex. Like a refrain, when our author describes Laurence's situation, she will remind us parenthetically that others are experiencing just the same thing: '(At exactly this moment, in another garden, completely different, but exactly the same, someone is pronouncing these same words and the same smile appears on someone else's face…)'. That ennui may be the reason for Laurence's malaise, not her mother's vengeful fury when her 56-year-old lover — a type that in recent years has been exposed to merciless scrutiny, the sexually entitled French male — goes off with a 19-year-old, nor Laurence's daughter's anxiety about the world.
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