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For example, I proffer the constatation, 'Black ladders lack bladders. A self-evident truth, one on which it would not have been worth while to insist, had I chosen to formulate it in such words as 'Black fire-escapes have no bladders, or, 'Les echelles noires manquent de vessie. But since I put it as I do, 'Black ladders lack bladders, it becomes, for all its self-evidence, significant, unforgettable, moving.
Everything else is only a reverberation of that. The vast mausoleum has a turnstile at the door, and a functionary in a shabby uniform lets you in, as per tariff, to see how dead it is. From this <i>constatation</i>, this cold curiosity, proceed all the industry, the prosperity, the vitality of the place.
"I do not enter into the details of why a woman wants to see her lover." "I meant, I only..." she said, flushing hotly. This coarseness of his angered her, and gave her courage. "Surely you must feel how easy it is for you to insult me?" she said. "An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait."
The amusement of this constatation is, as I have hinted, in the detail of the matter, and the detail is so dense, the texture of the figured and smoothed tapestry so loose, that the genius of Gyp herself, muse of general looseness, would certainly, once warned, have uttered the first disavowal of my homage.
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