...succession. Rather, it is already "in time" as an unfolding narration, at once acoustic and "literary": "Once again— I walk on, once again, down these corridors,...this structure— of another century. . . ." This voice-off fades in and out over the credits, and continues in this way over the initial tracking shots....

...a text by Alain RobbeGrillet; early on the narrator announces his architectural preoccupations: "l walk on, once again, down these corridors, through...silent deserted corridors overloaded with a dim, cold omamentation of woodwork, stucco, moldings, marble, black mirrors, dark paintings, columns, heaving...

...that can be heard only with difficulty and only intermittently intoning a rather hypnotic monologue: Once again I walk on, once again, down these corridors,...with a dim, cold ornamentation of woodwork, stucco, moldings, marble, black mirrors. Faithful to the minute cinematic directions in Robbe-Grillet's scenario,...

...that can be heard only with difficulty and only intermittently intoning a rather hypnotic monologue: Once again I walk on, once again, down these corridors, through these halls, these galleries, in this structure—of another century, this enormous, luxurious, baroque, lugubrious hotel—where corridors...