
Le dîner est prêt ?

All at once, no peanut
But we’ll just have a couple of bowls of chili and two coffees
Your mother’s icebox, I do what you say!
That’s tough
Sigmund Freud, Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, 1901
I’m sorry that we don’t measure up to your way of thinking
Fausse vraie affiche. Celles créées par Vichy le 1er mai 1941, portaient : “Je tiens les promesses, même celles des autres. Ph. Pétain. Extrait du discours de St-Étienne à propos de la retraite des vieux.”
“Awake thee my lady love, awake thee and rise… the sun through the bower beats into thy eyes”, or something like that. (Jean Simmons quotes George Darley, Morning Song, 1827)
“And when she smiled, it was as if the moon came out”, a remark by T. S. Eliot
(attribution fantaisiste et ironique de “And when she smiled…”)
Smart from books ain’t so smart
Sigmund Freud, Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, 1901