253:; however, Voulzy was not satisfied with the model they made and, as a consequence, they decided to work on other songs of the album. Almost a year and a half later, when he was driving on the Paris ring road, Porte de Bagnolet, Voulzy had "a flash" when reviewing the model of "Paradoxal Système", particularly when re-reading the sentence: "At night, trains travel to cities and faces". He explained: "These phrases about the unspoken, the
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