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Updated: July 10, 2025
Frequently I would discover so perfect a command over myself as to reduce la promenade easily to a recently invented mechanism; or to the demonstration of a collection of vivid and unlovely toys around and around which, guarding them with impossible heroism, funnily moved purely unreal plantons always absurdly marching, the maimed and stupid dolls of my imagination.
The plantons were, with one exception he of the black holster with whom I collided on the first day changed from time to time. Nearly all of them were witless. Every one of them had something the matter with him physically as well. For instance, one planton had a large wooden hand. Another was possessed of a long unmanageable left leg made, as nearly as I could discover, of tin.
Not very long after The Zulu's arrival occurred an incident which I give with pleasure because it shows the dauntless and indomitable, not to say intrepid, stuff of which plantons are made. The interval between soupe and promenade loomed darkly and thirstily before us unfortunates. As the minutes passed, it loomed with greater and greater distinctness.
I do not need to say that, as soon as the girls who had fainted could be brought to, they joined Lena in pain sec for many days to come; and that Celina was overpowered by six plantons at the order of Monsieur le Directeur and reincarcerated in the cabinot adjoining that from which she had made her velocitous exit reincarcerated without food for twenty-four hours.
Before I could utter a syllable the Surveillant raised his hand for silence: le negre had done wrong. He should be placed in the cabinot. Like a flash, with a horrible tearing sob, Jean leaped from the surrounding plantons and rushed for the coat which lay on his bed screaming "AHHHHH mon couteau!"
M'sieu' Jean, ils sont tous les plantons et le Directeur Lui-Meme et le Surveillant et le Gestionnaire et tous ils sont des " and he said very nicely what they were, and lit his little black pipe with a crisp curving upward gesture, and shook like a blade of grass.
Of course they never overheard any, since the least intelligent of the watched was a paragon of wisdom by comparison with the watchers. It was a very fine song. In concluding my remarks upon plantons I must, in justice to my subject, mention the three prime plantonic virtues they were beauty, as regards face and person and bearing, chivalry, as regards women, heroism, as regards males.
He picked up two more, one in each arm, and threw them away. They fell on top of the first. You should have seen the Surveillant. He had run away and was saying, 'Capture him, capture him. The plantons rushed Jean, all four of them. He caught them as they came and threw them about. One knocked down the Surveillant. The women cried 'Vive Jean, and clapped their hands.
I might say that the senders of these letters, whom I shall attempt to portray presently, have my unmitigated and unqualified admiration. Plantons were supposed but only supposed to report any schemes for escaping which they might overhear during their watch upon les femmes et les hommes en promenade.
Les Plantons rocked and applauded. Eventually Lena followed her example, capturing Lily en route. The scene must have consumed all of twenty minutes. The plantons were so mirth-stricken that they had to sit down and rest under the washing-shed. Of all the inhabitants of The Enormous Room, Fritz and Harree and Pom Pom and Bathhouse John enjoyed it most.
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