111 - Robert DESNOS (1900-1945), surrealist... - Lot 111 - Vermot et Associés

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111 - Robert DESNOS (1900-1945), surrealist... - Lot 111 - Vermot et Associés
111 - Robert DESNOS (1900-1945), surrealist poet. Handwritten manuscript, 1 p in-4, incomplete from the beginning. Surrealist poetic text. "[...] clusters of eyes greeted us when we landed in this small country of Burgundy. The Yonne River flowed close to our skin and the little cemetery stood on the hill. Vapeur and I went in. Here lies no one," the grave always proclaimed. We lifted the slab: a priest's cassock lay on it, with spiders crawling on it. The grotesque contortions of the gendarmes did not slow our march, the cassock clattered like our steps. The innkeeper served us a hearty meal, I went up to my room and put on my pyjamas, and in this outfit we disembarked three days later at Herne Bay. There we witnessed the lynching of priests by the revolting population. Their black clothes were swallowed up by the waves and at dawn the dogs, which had been satiated with blood all night, were still howling for death. Of all the spectacles of nature the sea is undoubtedly the most majestic and the most apt to awaken in the soul deep thoughts. When I went down to the shore her liquid hands pressed my feet between their palms. A mouth brushed my mouth for a moment and kissed me in each ear. Ah!!. Passing by you look in vain for my name on the votive column of the common grave. My name is inscribed on all the wandering buoys at the whim of the cervical gulf streams. My jaws grind my teeth under the shock of pleasure and the woman with webbed feet that you insist on calling Euthanasia in memory of me will never answer you. Besides, she knows how to swim and if you tied the pyramids to her neck, she would rather resurrect the abolished centuries than swallow between her pink lips a universe of lapping "
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