The Voyeur - Opening

It was as if no one had heard.
The whistle blew again - a shrill, prolonged noise followed by three short blasts of ear-splitting violence: a violence without purpose that remained without effect. There was no more reaction - no further exclamation - then there had been at first; not one feature of one face had even trembled.


Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Voyeur
Translated by Richard Howard
GROVE PRESS INC. NEW YORK