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Charles Pépin
Joy (Novel Excerpts)
I have the impression that everyone is acting:
the judges play the psychologist, my lawyer
asks me questions he already knows the
answer to, the prosecutor above the others
with that red shawl on his shoulders.
I am a willing participant. I tell things as they
happened, I want to tell them as many times
as necessary for them to be able to put a
cost on my sentence. But spare me this stage
play.