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35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille

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The World of Modernism - A Novel Review

There's a long scene of these very funny looking chairs, which is kind of too low and made of they must have been inflated or something. I think what it is, is it's like pleather covered, really basic foam so that as the foam goes down, the air builds up in the thing and then it squeaks and then it pops back into shape. This is all about his timing again, that it regains its original shape, but after an irregular amount of time. And sometimes it takes quite a long time and then pops back intoshape again suddenly, for no particular reason. It looks like Brasilia. There are two buildings with class curtains. The man can't get

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