![]() I was the only one of us who was part of it. If I was part of any group, I would say it was the so-called student clique. I suppose it was because I was a she or because I was his. The second time I heard him but it was a struggle. I think he knew the effect he had on women. He repeated himself smiling all the while. My heart, I remember it even now, missed a beat. The first time I got lost in the timbre of his voice. Well that, he said, and whatever the Germans had in their trenches. He said they were a reminder of hard times on the front when radishes were all there was to eat. Top hats, tail coats, vests, gloves, canes and shined patent leather shoes. The three comrades as I came to call them always dressed formally. We had resisted treason and it had cost us everything. Both had been sentenced to exile for the same reason as me. R had learned a new set of skills in the Alps. A scholar of scientific socialism and historical materialism. During the war he sharpened them on a submarine. An economist with a specialization in planning. But his works were about the need liberate France from her past in order to forge a new socialist future. In peacetime he was a poet of a radical inclination. The men and women just wanted to go home. ![]() Convicted for trying to incite the workers to break the armistice. He arrived in China in one of the first waves.
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