| Author Quoted | Jean Cocteau |
| Title Quoted | Grand Ecart |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1941/07/06 |
| Imprint | Paris : Delemain. 1924 |
| Quotation | Today I reread the scene where Jacques and Germaine quarrel over the stupid lines from Victor Hugo, "Gall, amant de la reine, etc." in Cocteau's Grand Ecart. [Note 10: Le Grand Ecart was the title of a short novel published by Jean Cocteau in 1922. In French, the expression grand Ecart refers to a dance step, that is, "the split." Yet the original meaning of ecart is that of separation or distance between. In this novel of his adolescence, Cocteau has in mind the gap between a woman of the world (with whom he was in love) and an inexperienced young man.] It is one of the funniest scenes I have ever read anywhere. So is the character Stopwell funny-but especially this scene, with Germaine and her mother. |
| Quotation Source | Run to the mountain: The Story of a Vocation. The journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1, 1939-1941.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1995, p. 378 |
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