On
landing, received 86 shots of 105, 130 and 150, for nothing. They
will pay the bill.
For a beginning, La Tour has his fourth mention.
A hug for each of you.
Georges.
P.S.--It could not be said now that I am not strong; I stop steel
bullets with the end of my finger.
Is this a letter? At first, it is a bulletin of victory: two airplanes
for five bullets, plus one passenger "_couic_." Then it becomes a
recital of the golden legend--the golden legend of aviation: he stops
the enemy's bullets with his fingers; Roland would write in that style
to the beautiful Aude: "Met three Saracens, Durandal cleft two, the
third tried to settle the affair with his bow, but the arrow broke on
the cord." Young Paul Bailly was right: "The exploits of Guynemer are
not a legend, like those of Roland; in telling them just as they
happened we find them more beautiful than any we could invent." That is
why it is better to let Guynemer himself relate them. He says only what
is necessary, but the right accent is there, the rapidity and the
"_couic_.
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