z-z-z-z-zed

Updated: June 4, 2025

Like boys, as we were, we repeated it more than a hundred times with all sorts of comments, absurd or melancholy, and the name lent itself to a jest. Juste would fire off the Z like a rocket rising, z-z-z-z-zed; and after pronouncing the first syllable of the name with great importance, depicted a fall by the dull brevity of the second. "Now, how and where does the man live?"

Honoré de Balzac - Z. Marcas