Sublime

A situação era tão diferente dos sintomas vegetativos de meu colapso que não imaginei estar ainda nas garras da mesma doença.

Dialogues des Inutiles (“Conversations of the Useless”), which was published as a three-page insert in the literary magazine Oeuvres Nouvelles at the beginning of January 1914. Dialogues is a suite of fourteen breezily romantic mock-arguments between the poet and his beloved, in which Éluard takes both sides of the conversation. These are

the song “Come un Pittore” by the group Modà began to play from an open window of a nearby apartment. A curtain hung out of it, flirting with the soft breeze.