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Turner woke up feeling unwell. He had felt queasy during the night, and by the morning his condition became worse. The beef he had prepared the night before was probably spoiled, or he had bought something that was not what it was claimed to be. He couldn’t think of another explanation because Lilian ate from the rest of the food too and she seemed fine.
Turner asked her to stay home. He spent the morning in his room and in the toilet, then slept two hours.
For a while, Lilian watched the bay from the terrace, and then, after Turner had fallen asleep, she turned on the television. Although in the beginning she was not sure how to operate it, she quickly got a feel for using hand gestures. She could leaf through the channels like turning the pages of a huge, invisible codex.
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