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Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 11: Occasions, 2015, p.129-148
Ort / Verlag
Princeton: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Gentlemen,
I am here in this deservedly celebrated amphitheater because a few of you are my friends and the rest of you are ready to be indulgent. I feel not only the strangeness of being here at all but also alarm and embarrassment at having to address you.
To begin with, of course, I have a few simple duties to perform, as agreeable as they are obvious. My opening gives me no qualms.
First of all I wish to thank you for the honor you have done me; the ritual nature of those thanks in no way detracts from their