‘The paper’s suggested lottery numbers were three, seven, and twelve. Tanks and air power had been deployed against six thousand rebellious Bolivian peasants. An Eskimo had been shot and killed while trying to divert a Boeing 747 to North Korea. A Breton trawler had gone missing with its eleven-man crew. A woman had celebrated her hundredth birthday and had announced her intention of voting for the left. Extraterrestrials had abducted a dog in full view of its master, a crossing guard in the department of Bas-Rhin.’
from Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Absence Club 