by
Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort
Le cauchemar
Language: French (Français)
La salle était tapissée de niches d'une
grandeur plus ou moins considérable. Dans un
petit compartiment se courbait un géant. Là,
sous une haute arcade se pavanait un nain.
Rarement la niche était faite pour la statue.
Des hommes grands et petits tournaient dans
la salle, guettant une niche vide pour s'y placer,
quelle quelle soit: tel est l'édifice métaphysique
de la société.
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The nightmare
Language: English after the French (Français)
The room was decorated with niches from the
grandest to the tiniest sizes. In a
little partition bent down a giant. There,
under an expansive arcade strutted a gnome.
Rarely was the niche appropriate [in size] for the statue.
Large and small men roamed
the hall, on the lookout for a vacant niche in which to place themselves,
whatever the size: such is the metaphysical edifice
of society.
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