North (Translated by Ralph Manheim 1972) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Céline [Céline, Louis-Ferdinand]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature
ISBN: 9780140043426
Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Group
Published: 1960-01-02T04:21:40+00:00

We withdrew . . . oh, very discreetly . . . Lili, Le Vig, Bébert, and me . . . on my way past the hatrack I left my contribution . . . of course the whole thing was a farce . . . it was no secret to anybody that I was dipping into Harras's cupboard . . . there'd be consequences . . . well, we'd see . . . back in our tower niche we shook our ticks and rags and snippets of rug . . . our rats too . . . they'd stopped running away . . . with the cold weather they were getting bold, familiar . . . Bébert's not the affable type of cat, but he didn't bother with them any more . . . I could see that if we'd put out two three messkits for them we'd have had whole generations hanging around, from the cellar and the woods . . . housecleaning and rats were the least of our worries . . . La Kretzer's fit of hysteria was something to think about . . . of course the whole thing was a comedy . . . this business of screaming at Hitler and (daubing herself with blood and imitating his little moustache . . . plus the heil heils . . . could give people a very sticky opinion of us! . . . All Zornhof must have known, even Moorsburg . . . what would Kracht do? . . . the three of us hadn't said a word . . . just witnesses! . . . I could remember the stuff people said after Les Beaux Draps ° . . . which-was simply a chronicle of the times . . . and still saying it. . . this thing now could be very serious . . . we were just as much "gallowsbird traitors" as on rue Girardon . . . we'd be accused of everything! . . . when you think it over later on, there are certain advantages in bping cursed by all and sundry . . . especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody. . . there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked . . . "not nice!" . . . that does it, you're free! . . . but now, with that Kretzer bitch, it would get around that we'd attacked the Führer! what could we say? . . . I ask them . . . Lili and Le Vig . . . in a very soft whisper . . . you can't be too careful . . . Le Vig bursts out laughing! . . .

"We're in the plot! ho-ho! That's rich!"

"Plot yourself! man from nowhere!"

"Wait . . . I'll act it out for you!"

He stares at me! . . . first straight, then crosseyed! worse than in his films! . . .

"You're hair-raising, supersonic! supersonic!"

"Say that again!"

Well start fighting if this goes on .

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