Article: Cabin fever.(Film)(Short Story)

Most of the buildings in the quartier Belfort are old and crumbling at the edges. Outside, the plaster mouldings from their balconies and windowsills drop fragments into the street, and inside they are badly insulated and draughty and heated with out-of-date appliances, so that even if the occupants make it through the winter without being gassed or blown up, some of them all the same risk succumbing to the cold. As I write this I am wearing my mountaineer's cap and a scarf, and am wrapped in a blanket and siring with a hot-water-bottle jammed between the chair's back and mine. It's only in this way that I can sit down in the apartment for any longer than it takes to pull ...

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