Snow White Snow Triptych

 Snow White Snow Triptych 

The next day, when I followed Roz into his room, he was sitting up in bed, Uncle Albert, and Luc DuBoisson was there leaning against the wall, and they were talking in French about a poem by Apollinaire - about angels. Here it is in French with Uncle Albert’s translation alongside:

And the poem means what it says, they were agreeing, no less and certainly no more. “It’s just the way most of us think,” Luc turned to English for my benefit, “excepting maybe British analytic philosophers and petroleum geologists.”

Speaking of which, analytic philosophers and petroleum geologists: across the street from Notre Dame is Canada’s National Gallery:

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Red Man Watching White Man Trying to Fix Hole in the Sky,
1990 acrylic on canvas, 142.3 × 226.1 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo © NGC. See here.

08.21.17