The narrator's name is Jacques Madelin, 72, caricaturist.
He is French but a story led him to the Bay of Naples a long time ago.
"I lost the love but I stayed in the city."
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He lives in an apartment above a bar named Nube.
You can leave a "suspended coffee" there, that is to say that by ordering a cup, you can pay for a second which will be indicated on the slate and offered to whoever enters without having the means to pay.
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In this gesture, it is not only a question of charity - which is already a lot.
It goes beyond.
Jacques Madelin, whose life we feel has taken on the task of teaching him the human soul, knows this well.
He says: “
Today, I am convinced that doing good is above all accepting floating emotions without letting their dirty waves articulate us like puppets of flesh.
Now that I'm getting older, I feel like a hanging coffee mug is sometimes worth more than a piece of art.
On the side of the one who leaves...
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