The Lacanian Review Online – Good Manners

Amantine is the heroine of the exceptional short story À Clairmont by Maryse Battistuzzi.[1] She is an old lady with a particular whim that makes other people wonder: when taking her tea she invariably leaves a small quantity in the bottom of her cup. To Amantine, to consume those last sips would doubtless amount “to drinking poison, to an offense, to braving unhappiness in some sort of way.” That is why this tiny remainder of liquid always ends up in the sink.

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