“I should be able to get the alligators to dance to the tune of the pan pipe.”

— Louis-ferdinand Céline

March 30, 1947
Source: Letters to Milton Hindus (1947-1949), Les Cahiers de la NRF, Gallimard ISBN 2070134296

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French writer 1894–1961

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