When others serve him, he says, it must always be with a smile. Jean-Baptiste moves on to talking about his own power.But if one person has authority, instead of saying, 'This is my opinion,' he can say, 'This is the truth.' Without power, you’ll just argue back and forth ad infinitum. Power, he argues, can be quite useful.Man needs slavery because he needs to command. Jean-Baptiste explains that everyone is either a slave or a master.It used to belong to a slave dealer, he explains, and he remarks on how much things have changed since then. Jean-Baptiste stops to admire a house, topped by the heads of two black slaves.He also likes Sicily, and islands in general, because 'it is easier to dominate them.' (It’s important to remember that he has a penchant for islands.).It’s just that he forces himself to like it. Jean-Baptiste admires the deathly smell of decaying foliage along the canals not that’s morbid at all, he explains.He suggests you go for a walk, and you agree.

Even tonight, now, as he’s talking to you, he feels a little under the weather, maybe because of the heavy air.He started 'unlearning' how to live – something which, as he claimed earlier, he had never had to learn in the first place. He oscillated between being excited and being depressed. He also started having some health problems.Every time he crossed the Seine, he would get nervous. Still, though, he stopped walking along the water in Paris.About that laugh: he thought about it, he says, for a few days after the mysterious night, but then he forgot it happened.Anyway, because of your curiosity, he’ll continue with his story.(Remember his whole discussion about understanding and friendship? You might want to go back and check that out again.) Jean-Baptiste begins by thanking you for your curiosity.

The Fall by Albert Camus