Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 3 (p. 9)
“We hurry since everything hurries
And I shall never not return
Memories are all archaic horns
Silenced by the wind.”
—
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
"Cors de chasse" (Hunting Horns), line 9; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 159.
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Passons passons puisque tout passe Je me retournerai souvent Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
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