“Then he spoke of the objects in his room: the candlesticks, the big mirror, the broken lute; he enumerated them with an irrelevant intensity, as if determined to make sure that no trace whatever subsisted of his wonderful adventure,…”

Words: Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes
Photo: Portrait of an Unknown Friendly Man, Harbourside, Bristol

“Then he spoke of the objects in his room: the candlesticks, the big mirror, the broken lute; he enumerated them with an irrelevant intensity, as if determined to make sure that no trace whatever subsisted of his wonderful adventure,…”

Words: Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

Photo: Portrait of an Unknown Friendly Man, Harbourside, Bristol