Friday, June 18, 2010

Nineteen


June 19th 1960. My nineteenth birthday. The photo below was taken in the great seminary of Poitiers, after a rehearsal of the Compagnons du Masque. I have a fit of the giggles and the photographer took the snapshot before I could stop laughing.

Me in the middle of year 1960

On June 19th 1960, I am still a naive boy; I still never imagined that, in ordinary life, people who speak to me can insert intentionnally hidden meanings in their words. I understand everything on the first level. And it never crossed my mind that there could be on the earth people not having the same status as me. My two years in the great seminary didn't change anything to that.

It is perhaps necessary to add that I have no love life with anybody. And that, in compliance with the rule, I have no sexual life — as one says today — though my biology is quite normal.

P. M.



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