:02:03
it was mistaken, for instance, for Burgundy
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just as, long ago, Piraeus (Greek port) was mistaken for a man,
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and my aunt's pendants for my uncle's.
:02:13
In short, the village was the worse for it.
:02:17
To put it bluntly, back on white,
:02:19
there was nothing left in the village, less than nothing.
:02:23
Or, rather, yes...
:02:24
There still survived, by hook or by crook,
:02:26
in the hamlet of Les Gourdiflots,
:02:29
two exotics, two fossils from the dawn of time,
:02:33
two pathetic creatures.
:02:36
The first of these Last of the Mohicans,
:02:38
of these tanned, wine-soaked dried fruits,
:02:42
of these curiosities from another time,
:02:45
rejected by technology and even the combustion engine,
:02:50
the first, then, of these two Druids of the wine goblet
:02:53
was called Francis Chérasse,
:02:56
nicknamed Le Bombé (the bulgy one)
:02:58
for the hunch that endowed his features.
:03:03
The second one was Claude Ratinier --
:03:06
Le Glaude, as he was called in the neighborhood.
:03:08
Le Glaude with a G.
:03:12
No, I dont want any, I dont want any...
:03:13
It's only a fly...
:03:14
If you're afraid it'll plug up your ass...
:03:16
I don't care about the fly...
:03:17
even flies would do me less harm than wine, with what I've got!
:03:20
What have you got since yesterday?
:03:23
Well? What?
:03:25
I have diabetes
:03:25
How did you find out?
:03:27
In the paper
:03:28
They talk about your diabetes in "The Mountain"?
:03:30
No, my lad, they talk about it in general in an article
:03:32
but there's some particular in that general...
:03:35
So what?
:03:36
What d'you mean, so what!!
:03:37
My Aunt Augustine, who had diabetes in every corner,
:03:39
they took out one of her eyes...
:03:42
...she died.
:03:43
My first cousin, Benoît Clou, he was tiny, like this...
:03:46
he was big, fat, broad, strong, like that...
:03:48
well, he too got lucky with diabetes!
:03:50
So they took out an eye...
:03:53
...he died.
:03:54
So, for me, 1+1, that makes... two.
:03:56
Well, confidence for confidence...
:03:59
I have two uncles who died back in 1914...