Reality made its way to the light around him, struck his eyes, struck his feet, and demolished, bit by bit, all that frightful poetry with which he had, at first, believed himself to be surrounded.
Le réel se faisait jour autour de lui, lui heurtait les yeux, lui heurtait les pieds, et démolissait pièce à pièce toute l’effroyable poésie dont il s’était cru d’abord entouré.