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My dear little one, I found out a month afterwards that your brother-in-law had suffered an automobile accident, but I had no idea that Léon had been in it and had been seriously injured. Could you ever imagine that I wouldn’t have written to you! So were you too in the motor car? (since you say: I’ve got Léon beside me injured). I am in retrospect very upset to learn this[1]. I shall write to your brother. I was going to do so anyway to tell him of my admiration. War, alas, has confirmed, consecrated and immortalized his “Pre-war”[2]. Ever since Balzac, we have never known a man of imagination discover so forcefully a social law (in the sense where Newton (?) discovered the law of gravity[3]). Yes I was going to write to him about that and I wouldn’t have mentioned the accident! I hope that if his prophesy was not listened to, we will know how to “apply” his discovery and put it into practice, you and I, Post-war. But I do not think (and I think this is also your brother’s opinion even though I didn’t read it in his articles) that it must consist in making us inferior, depriving, I don’t say our musicians, but our writers, of the prodigious fecundation that it is to hear Tristan, and the Ring Cycle, like Péladan who no longer wants us to learn German[4] (which General Pau and General Joffre[5], fortunately speak fluently).
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