Re-reading a perfectly good book
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Re-reading a perfectly good book
"Le conteur est avant tout celui qui vient d'ailleurs, qui regroupe sur la place d'un village ceux qui n'en sortiront jamais, et qui leur fait voir d'autres montagnes, d'autres lunes, d'autres terreurs, d'autres visages. Il est colporteur des métamorphoses."
It had been the emperor's whim to name his favorite elephant after a "hiran", a deer, and maybe that was why after years of noble service the poor beast lost his mind and had to be restrained, because name were things of power, and when they did not fit the thing named they acquired a malign force.
