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“However she is totally unable – bodily incapable – of returning to the scene of the accident. As a substitute, she finds herself with a rising consciousness of hazard, or her personal mortality, of a metropolis that has a startlingly informal angle to dying. Pot crops on windowsills protrude over each footpath – charming, and so, so French. And so, so harmful. Think about if one landed in your head! It isn’t like they’re bolted on,” Pryor writes.