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The Gasp

by Romain Gary

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NOTE DE L'AUTEUR

Le mot « âme » est passé de mode. Il est banni de tout vocabulaire littéraire sérieux. Ce n'est plus qu'un archaïsme, une vieillerie bêlant-lyrique, et qui relève d'une sorte de Saint-Sulpice humaniste. Il a fait son temps, comme on dit.
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R. G.
Cimarrón, septembre 1977.
PREMIÈRE PARTIE

« Carburant avancé »

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Le ciel romain était bleu, serein, et un jeune Américain, grand, barbu, portant lunettes et dont il ne sera plus fait mention ici, dit à sa compagne très blonde, en contemplant l'azur figé : « Il y a dans ce ciel plus de lucidité froide que d'émotion. » [...]
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