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      December 17, 2015The French LessonMichael C. Ford

      Quel saccage du jardin de la beauté
      —Rimbaud

      At the conclusion of one of my
      Sorbonne translation demonstrations
      At the English faculty, on Rue Charles V,
      Dominique startles us by jumping to her
      Feet with an interjected response: “Merci,
      Monsieur passeist!”
      At first, I’m flattered by her outward
      Reaction to my work; but, later on,
      I discover that it means:
      A man not adapted to the present,
      A man who doesn’t belong to the current age,
      A man who has no relevant place in his time.

      from Issue #7 - Summer 1997