1958-08-08

August 8
I agree to be the last man, if to be a man is to be like the others.

I hung on the wall an old engraving depicting the hanging of the Armagnac partisans, looking at which partakes of sniggers and hilarity. It’s a spectacle with which I cannot manage to be sated.

As far as I remember, I have never believed in the virtues of fever.