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{As food for. thought, we offer the following translation of Robert Escarpit's column in the April 7 issue of the Paris daily Le Monde. The original title is "Séries Gigones."]
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When I was a child, I liked to muse. over the box of a certain brand of chocolates that showed a. little girl holding a box of chocolates on‘which you could see a‘still smaller girl holding a box of., chocolates on which you could.see...and so on to where I imagined T. could see an atom of a little-girl holding an atom of chocolate.
A similar bit of revery occurred to me when the announcement came about the success of Luna 10 -- the Earth revolving around the Sun, the Moon around ‘the Earth, Iuna 10 around the Moon. Why not continue and imagine a tennis. ball revolving around Luna 10, a pea~ revolving around the ball, and so on down to an elementary particle.
This principle of fleas on fleas is commoner than you might... think. The general wants Europe autonomous in the world, France autonomous in Europe, the regime autonomous in France, the general autonomous in the regime. The series seems to stop there but who knows what the general is debating in his mind?
. As for the Americans, who so ingeniously fit a rebellion inside an insurrection and resistance inside a revolt, the limit for them, I believe, will not be reached until nothing remains but a desert, liberated at last, and their conscience awakens to tell them: "Go home!"
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