Clause 13 — Testimony. Each party retains exclusive ownership of its writings, notes and recordings. Neither may use them against the other, nor be called upon to testify against the other.
On Sunday, November 22, from 6 to 7:10 a.m., I wrote out a clean copy of the twenty-seven minutes and fourteen seconds. By hand, in green notebook number forty-four, after Perpignan. Three thousand eight hundred and twelve words, the brackets, the times. In the margin, in pencil, as I've done for everyone since 2020: the speeds. Page 31, next to the motorcycle: 190 (10/4). Then I put the notebook back in the box, under my bed.
I don't sleep in my room anymore. The key has stayed in the lock, on the inside. The door, open.
On Friday, December 4, at 7:15 a.m., he said he was going to Lyon for two days, Part-Dieu, a tower, a problem with the facade. Nineteen words. Six seconds. A hundred and ninety. I buttered my toast. I didn't ask anything. Nothing in the contract obliges me to report a speed.