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• W2077179301 abstract "Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night Michel Tournier Translated by Margaret Higonnet (bio) Two little white houses faced each other in the village of Powdersnap. One was the laundry. No one could remember the real name of the laundress; because of her snow-white dress everyone called her Columbine the White Dove. The other house was the bakery of Pierrot. Pierrot and Columbine had grown up together, sitting next to each other on the benches in the village schoolhouse. They were so often together that everyone imagined they would get married later on. But their paths separated when Pierrot became baker's boy and Columbine laundress. Obviously, a baker must work at night, so that the village will have fresh bread and hot rolls in the morning. A laundress works during the daytime. All the same, they could have met at dusk, either in the evening when Columbine was getting ready for bed and Pierrot was getting up, or in the morning when the day of Columbine was beginning and the night of Pierrot was coming to an end. But Columbine avoided Pierrot, and the poor baker's boy was eating his heart out. Why did Columbine avoid Pierrot? Because her old friend reminded her of all sorts of unpleasant things. Columbine loved only the sun, birds, and flowers. She blossomed only in the summer, in the heat. But the baker's boy, as we have said, lived mostly at night, and for Columbine, night simply meant darkness peopled by frightening beasts like wolves or bats. She preferred at that hour to close her door and shutters and to curl up under her down quilt to go to sleep. That wasn't all. For Pierrot made his living from two dark realms that were even more disturbing: his cellar and his oven. What if he had rats in his cellar? And don't we say, as black as soot? It must be said, moreover, that Pierrot had the looks of his trade. [End Page 169] Perhaps because he worked at night and slept during the day, he had a round, pale face which made him look like a full moon. His large, attentive, and astonished eyes made him resemble an owl, as did his loose clothes, floating and all white with flour. Like the moon, like an owl, Pierrot was timid, silent, faithful, and secretive. He preferred winter to summer, solitude to society. Rather than talk—which he found hard and was not good at—he preferred to write, which he did by the light of a candle with an immense pen, addressing long letters to Columbine that he never sent, convinced that she would not read them. What did Pierrot write in his letters? He tried to set Columbine straight. He explained to her that night was not what she thought it was. Pierrot knows the night. He knows that it is not a black hole, no more than his cellar or his oven. At night, the stream sings a higher and clearer note, and it shimmers with thousands and thousands of silvery scales. The foliage that the large trees shake against the dark sky sparkles with stars. The winds of night are more profoundly perfumed by the sea, the forest, and the mountains, than the winds of day, which are laden by the labors of men. Pierrot knows the moon. He knows how to look at her. He knows that she is not a disc as white and flat as a plate. He looks at her with enough attention and friendship to see with his naked eye that she is modeled, that she is really a ball like an apple, like a pumpkin—and that, besides, she is not smooth, but sculptured, dimpled, undulating—like a landscape with its hills and dales, like a face with its wrinkles and smiles. Yes, Pierrot knows all that, because after he has kneaded his dough a long time and leavened it with the secret of yeast, it needs two hours to rest and rise. That is when he leaves his kitchen. Everyone is asleep. He is the clear conscience of the village. He tours all its streets and alleys. His..." @default.
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