Tag: Clysters

  • ‘To Revive the Wind’, on René Crevel’s ‘Babylon’.

    “Summer. The grandfather and the mother had to remain in Paris because of their work. The grandmother settled in with her grand-daughter on the family property in the Seine-et-Oise. Queen of a box-bordered garden, the old lady drenched her roses with a syringe, as if those persnickety creatures had need of a clyster to preserve the pretty colour, the natural…