CONTENTS
La loi
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Author: Vailland Roger (1907-1965)
Year: 1957
(Don Cesare dying of syphilis)
The idea of approaching death produced a certain excitement in Don Cesare. For the first time in years, for the first time since he had "lost interest", he philosophised aloud. The pleasure of intercourse with women had never disappointed him; his appetite for them had never weakened; the very moment the paralysis had struck him he had been planning to take the youngest and most beautiful girl of his household to bed with him. Like a soldier falling on the field of battle, he was dying of wounds received in the hand-to-hand fighting of love, the battle of his choice; a glorious death, he thought...
Privately the doctor considered that the pox did not merit such lyricism. But he was happy to see his friend firm in the face of death.
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