actually disenchantment, like all fashions, having begun with the highest tiers of society, had descended to the lowest, which carried them to term, and that nowadays those who more than anyone else were in fact suffering from boredom tried to conceal this misfortune as if it were a sin. The captain did not appreciate these fine points; he shook his head and smiled slyly: “Still, the French must have introduced the fashion of being bored, right?” “No, the English.” “Aha! There you have it!” he replied. “They’ve always been inveterate drunkards, haven’t they?” I couldn’t help but recall a
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