All my troubles...

Ain't so far away.

This is Monseigneur Duchesne.
This a member of H.'s family.

When I first heard about him,
I have been told that he used to say about the pope Pie X that was the Venice patriarch:
« C'est un gondolier vénitien dans la barque de saint Pierre : il est naturel qu'il la conduise à la gaffe...»

At this time I was wandering, spending sometimes at H. place.

It was a dark problematic period, so bitter and so sweet...




I just remember what I used to think.

"La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir
un cœur d’homme.
Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."
Albert Camus, Le mythe de Sisyphe [1942 : 168]