“For a long time he stood at the window looking at the shining rails. They had always fascinated him. Squinting a little he saw them stretch away to infinity, carrying him off to his rediscovered youth.”

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P.371

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French Canadian fiction writer 1909–1983

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