“The rain was clearly wondering whether it should come or not. A fine drizzle, as if sifted through a sieve, reluctantly rippled the puddles, the advertising banner on the billboard was streaked with dark streaks and spots of dampness. True, the cheerful girl with luxurious forms, depicted on the poster in a topless bikini, surrounded by palm trees, a poisonous blue sea, a somewhat less poisonous sky and flounder-shaped dolphins hanging across that sky like a drying roach, did not lose her presence of mind from the dank dampness... »