"I thought I'd written them in continuous fashion, in successive periods of forgetfulness, but often the same faces, the same names, the same places, the same sentences reoccur from one to another, like the patterns in a tapestry one might have woven when half asleep".
But seeing the same faces over and over can get tiresome.
"I thought I'd written them discontinuously, in successive bouts of forgetfulness," Modiano has said of these efforts, "but often the same faces, the same names, the same places, the same sentences recur from one to the other".
Dilated pupils and binkys in the dance tent at Coachella is to be expected, but seeing the same faces at the same clubs on a Friday night, and again on a Saturday night, and again on a Sunday night no matter which DJ is in the booth seems a little excessive, don't you think?
It is never too full, but you see the same faces again and again.
His annual returns to Cheltenham were not merely to watch the cricket; but to see the same faces in the crowd each year, seated in the same positions on benches and deckchairs, and to swap the same old endearing stories about Tom Goddard and Bomber Wells.
You still see the same faces, but the only difference now is that everyone has mobile phones".
Surprised, Crivelli showed a different set of Trobrianders the same faces, but he couched his questions in stories e.g., "Which of these people would like to start a fight?"—to draw out more context.
The same faces appear here almost nightly.
