Combat Journal for Place d'Armes. Scott Symons
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objectively … “I have come to sight La Place, for others … I never really saw it during my four years here. I always took it for granted … knew it was wonderful but never why … never probed my belief that….
“Attendez une seconde … M’mselle — votre vin … il est légèrement maderisé vous savez … essayons le rouge alors.” She is back moments later with a carafe of red — and we are refurbished.
Me — “I love it here … in the Vieux Quartier … I am at home…. It fulfils something in me … completely … demands a plenitude of response from me … forces me to flower (I could never say that in English you know … people would laugh!) I want to communicate that in the novel.”
“Je vois bien … eh, mon vieux — et ta femme?”
“She knows I must do this … that I must come alive before it is too late … I could not do it if she did not have faith in me, and I in her … if that went, then it wouldn’t be worth doing. It is a question of live or death … tu sais….”
“C’est évident! Mais combien des vôtres comprennent cela?”
“My wife — nearly. And one childhood friend who has been implicated in my life since I was twelve … and Jack Richards, because I pave a way for him now…. And Eric Newman — you know him from CBC.”
“Et ta famille … ton frère aîné? Peter?”
“No — he mustn’t understand what I am doing … or he is ruined. He is intelligent….”
“Mais sa sensibilité?”
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