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Googoo, Gobgoo, Googoo. During the German occupation, some of the surrealists escaped labor battalions by pretending insanity. One howled like a wolf, another barked like a dog, a third capered about like a ballet dancer, gurgling "googoo, googoo, googoo!" But François joined the Resistance, carried messages and dropped underground pamphlets...
...eight months the police, alerted by druggists, tried to track him through the blizzard of fake prescriptions. François eluded them. One day, unable to get eubine, he dosed himself massively with a soporific, and dozed on a public bench. François landed in a public hospital. There his story came...
Toxicologists were amazed at the quantities of the drug he had absorbed and survived. Psychiatrists were sympathetic. Criminal charges were deferred while he took the cure. But François soon broke off his treatment and sought help from a doctor friend...
...Satan. This doctor, Pierre Roumeguere, was as extraordinary as François Vintenon, but in a different way. He had never practiced (except for wartime duty in the Navy), but kept on studying for years while he collected more degrees and diplomas. Three times after they had sentenced him to death, he escaped from the Nazis. He had a weather-browned, bearded face, black eyes, a long, pointed nose. The Maquis called him Dr. Satan...
...Saturday night Vintenon and Roumeguere went to the hut. Next day François' mistress arrived and the doctor left. Sunday night François took the girl to Paris, then returned to Gif-sur-Yvette. In the village tavern he was seen to eat some food and swallow many pills; then he went off toward the hut. "Mon Dieu!" cried the doctor, when he found the body the next weekend, "there's an enormous Negro lying...