“Don’t forget,” said the writer, his face more and more agitated, “it was in Rourou that I first rode a bike. Yes, I tell about it in detail in my book. And you all know what the bicycle signifies in my work. It’s a symbol. For me, the bicycle is the first step taken by humanity out of the patriarchal world and into the world of civilization. The first flirtation with civilization. The flirtation of a virgin before her first kiss. Still virginity and already sin.”
“That’s true,” said Joujou. “Tanaka, a girl I worked with, had her first orgasm riding a bicycle when she was still a virgin.”
Everyone started discussing Tanaka’s orgasm, and Tamina asked Bibi: “May I make a telephone call?”