He has slept well
Every morning Grabinoulor was in the habit of honouring his wife and that was why the street belonged to him when he walked so his hands his eyes his lips took her breasts her belly her hips and all her cuves and while his head was disappearing between her thighs it occurred to him that it was possible that fishes' tails had an influence on the movement of the waves in the sea so he jumped off the bed with his dibber still in the air and it was just as he was plunging his head into the basin that he began to get to the bottom of the question with all its extraordinary consequences so what probably happened was that the bottom of the question got left at the bottom of the water because when he raised his head he said to his wife did you post the letters then he got lost for a time and found himself back in his adolescence or even in his antenascence and he stayed there for part of that day
In the evening he killed the rich people of France because they didn't like raw fleshly beauty then he composed a poem because he was a poet then he pissed because he was a man
Grabinoulor goes to look for the Empire of the Dead
It was eleven o'clock on the nth day of his age when Grabinoulor noticed a man riding by on a bicycle and he suddenly thought how amazing it was that that man and that machine would go on living in such elegant equilibrium for as long as they were in movement and he also told himself that all the things that make up the Universe are perpetually moving away from one another and then coming together again and immobility doesn't exist because movement is god so he was satisfied for that day with this certainty which is a convenient sort of thing to take with you on a journey and as in any case just at that moment a young man and a young girl were going by all lit up by love he set off for the Empire of the Dead which he'd heard so much about ever since he was born
Grabinoulor walks admirably on the earth and on the water above and below both in space and in time well now something happened that amazed him most wonderfully everywhere he went life laughed in his face and this delighted Grabinoulor because as he'd always heard people talking so crossly about that hegomonic empire he was a bit apprehensive about setting foot or eyes on it even though just the thought of seeing his mother again made him feel happy and he quite looked forward to seeing some famous men and not just having a charming Urbis Romæ-type conversation but there was so much light everywhere that he gradually forgot why he had started out and he went on just for the pleasure of going on
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