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Jim here... Jules there...
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and Sabine next to me
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And your new novel?
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Unfinished due to my damn articles
:39:14
l have to think about them
all week...
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then write them Friday night
and send them by air mail
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And you?
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l have a commission
for a book on dragonflies
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l'm doing the text and photos
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Catherine's doing the drawings
and graphs
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Even Sabine helps
by going with me to the marshes
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l'm going to build
an artificial pond in the garden
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Maybe one day...
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l'll write a love story...
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where the characters will be insects
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l have a bad tendency
to overspecialise
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l envy you your broad scope, Jim
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Me? l'm a failure
:39:57
Prof Albert Sorel
taught me the little l know
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He saidYou want to be what?
A diplomat
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Are you rich?
No
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Can you legitimately add
a famous name to your own surname?
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No
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Then forget diplomacy
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But what'll l become?
Curious
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That's not a profession, not yet
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Travel, write, translate
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Learn to live everywhere.
Begin at once
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The future belongs to the curious
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The French have stayed
behind their borders too long
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Newspapers'll pay for your escapades
:40:34
Jules says a great career
lies before you
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l agree but not necessarily
a spectacular one
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Here's where Jules works and sleeps
:40:46
Our life is organised
like life in a convent
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Jules writes his books...
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hunts for his insects
and little things
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Mathilda,
the nearby farmer's girl...
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helps me with the house and Sabine