le petit pain de glaise, the small cake of day

Page 38. 1. s'évase en écuelle fantastiquement mouvante, vndens irUo a h(ml endowed wUh fantastie motion,

2. la matière . • • . qu'une valse fantastique, ihe clay . . which, through a light haze of stearriy a fanktstic rotation carries away inJto a whirlmnd of whims no sooner conceived than realized, no aooner realized than vanished

3. La seule peine, semble-t-il, c'est d'arrêter l'extase avec le tour, the only difficvUy seema toheto stop the creaiive rapture ai the same tinte as the lathe, and abrupUy to bring bock to what is only in reality a hit of yeUow clay the deœimng loonders of the changing aspects of a dream.

Page 39. 1. Ce n'est pas que le potier du Bocage fît des merveilles, / do not mean to say that my Bocage potter did wonders. Bocage, see page 148, note 4.

2. avant de s'immobiliser dans la prose, before it stiUs itsélf in the prosaic shape in which it flnaUy dies.

3. On ne sort du four qu'une momie figée, pétrifiée, what is taken from the oven is only a stiff and petrified mummy.

4. buies, ponnes, words from the local dialect sufficiently explained through the context. Buie présents several connected forms in French like buirCj bure, burette, meaning a vessel of smaller capacity than the one meant hère and used for drinkmg purposes.

5. sorte d'amphore pansue, a sort of big-Mlied jar svrmounted by a small howl from which the dear vxiter flows.