
[1971] It is midnight.
[1972] The rain is beating on the windows.
[1973] I am calm.
[1974] All
is sleeping.
[1975] Nevertheless I get up and go to my desk.
[1976] I can't sleep.
[1977] My
lamp sheds a soft and steady light.
[1978] I have trimmed it.
[1979] It will last till
morning.
[1980] I hear the eagle-owl.
[1981] What a terrible battlecry!
[1982] Once I
listened to it unmoved.
[1983] My son is sleeping.
[1984] Let him sleep.
[1985] The night
will come when he too, unable to sleep, will get up and go to his desk.
[1986] I shall be forgotten.
[1987] My report will be long.
[1988] Perhaps I shall not finish it.
[1989] My name is
Moran, Jacques.
[1990] That is the name I am known by.
[1991] I am done for.
[1992] My son
too.
[1993] He cannot be aware of it. [place = supralinear] All unsuspecting.
[1994] He must think he's on the threshold of
life, of real life.
[1995] He's right there.
[1996] His name is Jacques, like mine.
[1997] It [place = supralinear] This cannot lead to confusion.
[1998] I remember the day I received the order to see about Molloy.
[1999] It was
one [place = supralinear] a Sunday in summer.
[2000] I was sitting in my little garden, in a wicker
chair, a black book closed on my knees.
[2001] It must have been about eleven
o'clock, still too early to go to church.
[2002] I was savouring the day of
rest, while depo [place = overwritten] loring the importance attached to it, in certain parishes.
[2003] To work, even to play on Sunday, was not of necessity reprehs [place = overwritten] ensible, in
my opinion.
[2004] It all depended on the state of mind of him who worked, or
played, and on the nature of his work, of his play, in my opinion.
[2005] I was
reflecting with satisfad [place = overwritten] ction on this, that this slightly libertarian
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