(It seems to me now, many years later, that I was expressing early on a chronic depressive’s wish to stay home, on the inside, instead of taking on the outside, loomingly hostile world in the form of classmates and teachers.)

In Niaux, claviforms played a special role in that respect because we also find them very far inside the cave near the end of the galleries. … The same structure is visible at the Salon Noir itself. There, a claviform and a parallel bar were made on the first panel to the right, at the entrance.

The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts for at least six months every year.

He can make up the time next week.