LOUYS Pierre (Pierre Louis, dit) [Gand, 1870 - Paris, 1925], - Lot 64

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LOUYS Pierre (Pierre Louis, dit) [Gand, 1870 - Paris, 1925], - Lot 64
LOUYS Pierre (Pierre Louis, dit) [Gand, 1870 - Paris, 1925], French writer. Autograph letter signed with his initials, addressed to Paul Robert. [Early May 1902, the day after the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande]; 2 1/2 pages in-8°. "By sending you this graceful and poetic impromptu that I had done in the prisons, I want to explain to you a theory of mine, that is to say that the jinx does not exist. When one of us is looking for the other, the other is generally not there, that's true; but you'll see that it's enough to be stubborn and that when I return, before a week, the jinx will have been transformed into a vein, a metamorphosis that happens to it every time one looks at it a little severely, between the two eyes. No, whoever the chef is, Joseph or Paillard, Ritz Or Larue, learn that tomorrow (or I die) Tomorrow night I'll take around the twenty-second hour The train Paris-Bordeaux Dax Bayonne and Biarritz. (1) I will enter the horrible and pale pier Which rubs of its croup, with the eyes of the nations, The Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (2) As to the anchored ship the nave without boat adheres. Employees wearing a P followed by an O In the blackened crest of their humble caps Will see me unfolding on all the benches Not Kerst's article but Corneau's. If my neighbor, sinister cad, insists And speaks to me about tonal or not tonal agreement I want to say to him with the voice of Juvenal: "Choose of this dagger or to be debussist!" (1) this alexandrine is the most beautiful in the French language. (2) this one also "
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