Cloze 3 - Bernard-Henri Lvy

The French philosopher and writer, Bernard-Henri Lvy, is the author of 29 books.
He is (1) married to Arielle Dombasle. He lives in St.-Paul-de-Vence, near Nice, and
has homes in Paris, New York and Morocco. I wake up at 5.30 am. I have no
problem (2) getting out of bed and the first thing I need is a cup of tea. I (3) dress as
lightly (4) as possible. I often (5) wear a shirt open down to under my chest, but not
(6) out of vanity. The truth is I find clothes suffocating. I want to live as much as
possible in the open air, in the sun. Ive never (7) worn a tie in my life. That caused
problems a (8) couple of times: once at the Elyse Palace when I was invited (9) to a
lunch with the then president Valry Giscard dEstaing, and once at the Vatican at a
private audience with Pope John Paul II. I put my foot (10) down both times. At 6 am.
Im (11) at my desk. My offices in all my homes are virtually (12) identical. The
length and width of the desks are the same. My papers are (13) piled up in the same
spot. Its important its like building the space (14) where I write. First I write with
a felt-tip pen then I (15) type the text into the computer. My wife gets up (16) later
than I do, but occasionally I wake her up, sometimes its to ask her (17) about my
writing. Shes my first reader. Shes severe and demanding. Even when she (18)
doesnt master a topic, she has a radar which spots something (19) wrong. Shes
almost always right. I (20) stop for breakfast at about 9 am. In St-Paul-de-Vence,
where I spend a lot of the year, I walk to a (21) nearby hotel and have breakfast. Then
its (22) back to writing. I work less in Paris. There are too (23) many distractions
there. Moving from one home to (24) another helps me write. It prevents me from
getting stuck in a rut. My latest book, American Vertigo, is an (25) account of a
journey I took through the US. I wrote it because I thought that for a European
intellectual there was nothing (26) more important than to understand what was (27)
happening in America, to go and (28) tell the Americans what was wrong with their
society. Im not anti-American I cant (29) stand the French prejudice against
America. I consider myself a philosophe engag a scholar who gets involved. Like
(30) any successful man of culture, I reckon Im 99% misunderstood and 1%
understood. Thats quite good.