bedslippered

Updated: May 13, 2025

As I was conducted from the bureau I asked him point-blank: "How long am I to stay here?" to which he answered "Oh, peutetre un jour, deux jours, je ne sais pas." Two days in a gendarmerie would be enough, I thought. We marched out. Behind me the bedslippered rooster uhahingly shuffled. In front of me clumsily gamboled the huge imitation of myself. It descended the terribly worn stairs.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room