Word: proverbes
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...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. In the hands of this artful French writer, pictures become edible, people lapse into "temporary death," fathers take their sons' exams, and art itself becomes the science of the impossible...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. In the hands of this artful French writer, pictures become edible, people lapse into "temporary death," fathers take their sons' exams, and art itself becomes the science of the impossible...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. The Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...
...case, the principle of competitive emulation warns that there is much truth in an old proverb, now a cliche among the more cynical neutrals: "The longer two enemies fight, the more they become the same...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Aymé. In this batch of short stories, the Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...