fertes

Updated: June 29, 2025

Often I pondered the unutterable and inextinguishable wisdom of the police, who undeterred by facts which would have deceived less astute intelligences into thinking that these men were either too stupid or too simple to be connoisseurs of the art of betrayal swooped upon their helpless prey with that indescribable courage which is the prerogative of policemen the world over, and bundled it into the La Fertes of that mighty nation upon some, at least, of whose public buildings it seems to me that I remember reading: Liberte.

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