Wednesday 9 December 2015

The Goncourts* - in context

When God the Father with his long white beard, looking the way members of the Institut paint him in church cupolas, after questioning me about what I have done, questions me about everything to which I have lent the complicity of my eyes, he will doubtless ask me: "Creature whom I made human and good, have you by any chance seen the bullfight at the Barrière du Combat, with five great famished bulldogs tearing to pieces some poor, thin old donkey incapable of defending itself?" To which I will reply: "Alas, no, Lord, I have seen something worse than that: I have seen Transporter 3."

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* from the translation by Robert Baldick

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