Les passagers Page #5

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No desires, either.

My instinct of self-preservation

saved me.

My instinct recovered in time

to resist.

Today,

it all seems so far away,

so laughable.

lt's late.

See you tomorrow.

l like it when you're relaxed.

You feel it?

- Changes everything.

You know, you ought to realise :

,

we're all made of the same matter

the same atoms.

Man or woman, no one escapes

that biological truth.

Six atoms define the make-up

of the human body :

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,

nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur...

Remember that.

There's a way :
CHONPS.

C-H-O-N-P-S.

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,

nitrogen, phosphorus...

and sulphur.

- Sulphur, right.

David, you're really something.

You're a "champ"!

Did you like it?

Especially Origin of the World,

The Archer impressed me, too.

Who did it?

- Bourdelle.

You look like him a bit.

- You're flattering me.

Aren't you overdoing it?

- No, l love you.

That you, Christine?

Ive quit.

Your job,?

- Mom

l can't take it anymore.

lt's gone too far.

- l don't doubt it.

Here's the manager's last memo.

We got it late in the day.

"l count on you to keep in mind

these three concepts :

First, you are profit builders.

Second, you are market developers.

Third, you are managers

with priorities."

See why l couldn't go on?

Need any nurse's aides

in your hospital?

Even a trainee position.

- It's awful everywhere.

At Lucie's brother's company,

they make executives

take culture workshops.

What for?

They claim listening

to a Mozart symphony

sharpens your business sense.

How can you deal with that?

- By laughing at it, first.

ln hospitals, future retirees can take

a retirement planning seminar.

Some things don't need planning.

- Exactly.

lt's as inevitable as falling leaves.

ln Maubeuge today

some 10,OOO demonstrators protested

the lack of jobs in the North,

Politicians from all parties joined in,

10 fire trucks led the march

as churches tolled the knell,

Expulsion.

Coercion.

Rackets.

- Violence.

Vandalism.

- Arson.

Menace.

- Technology.

Dynamism.

- The vilest serpent

won't bite its own tail.

- Bliss :
yesterday's hope.

Grief :
today's certainty.

- Crush or be crushed.

The economy's sole focus :

- The market.

Profit :
the only standard.

- Full employment gone.

Poverty helps growth.

- I'm in human resources.

Let us instil company spirit.

- Can you?

Replace older personnel

with new blood.

Commerce despises its workforce.

Technology scorns reason.

- More, always more.

If you're not ambitious...

- You're dead.

Arithmetical madness and its rationale

sets the Jewish genocide apart.

Productivity and efficiency.

The mechanics of its horror form

the basis of industrialised society.

industrial barbarity.

The abyss which silently enfolds

the smug notion of progress.

The executioner...

- Surpassed by his valet.

And man...

when will he matter?

When the earth

is like a damp prison cell

ln which hope,

like a bat in a tunnel

Beats the walls with its timid wing

And strikes its head

on a rotted ceiling

When the rain beats down

in endless trails

That seem like the bars

of some vestal

Where silent hordes

of loathsome spiders wind

And spin their webs

in the corners of our mind

When the bells sling,

seized with a sudden fury

And send their horrid howl

up to the sky

Like spirits lost

and wandering endless Iy

Who wail and moan uncontrollably

When a long line of hearses,

drumless and mute

file slowly through my soul,

hope is dead

And vanquished,

as Anguish, that despotic brute

Plants its black flag

on my bowed head...

Goodnight, my sleepers.

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