les deux besoins

[larvatus]

Les Deux Besoins
                The Two Needs

‘Et le pharmacien … entonna:
    “J’ai deux grands bœufs dans mon étable.
    Deux grands bœufs blancs.…”
Sénecal lui mit la main sur la bouche, il n’aimait pas le désordre.’

(Gustave Flaubert. L’Éducation Sentimentale.)

‘And the pharmacist … sang out

Comments

[mrwaggish]

Thank you. I was not familiar with this essay; it does remind me a bit of the concurrent Murphy. "menu," however, means slight or tiny rather than numerous.

[larvatus]

Thanks for your reading and correction.

[levhrytsyuk]

Thank you for your translations of Beckett and beautiful layout! (I share it: http://levhrytsyuk.blogspot.com/2010/01/lj-user-larvatus-translates-samuel.html)