It was my first day in Paris but the feeling was still with me: like I was getting ready to explode, as if my guts were a lit fuse racing up to my brain.Being cooped up gets me that way, although I was camped in a big room in this swank hotel. Twelve bucks a night and it was the best hotel room I’d ever been in. I’d docked at Le Havre the afternoon before, came straight to this fancy joint from Gare St. Lazare, like they told me to