"Leaning on their elbows, they follow with their gaze the mounds of the tunnels dug by the moles, which zigzag at the edge of the field, like the veins of the elderly. Sometimes they lose sight of them, sometimes they come out into an esplanade, where the devastating cuscuta spreads its beard of red filaments. Here the mole tunnels form a small village of huts built like those of the Indians. (2010, p. 31)"
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Jules Renard
1864 – 1910
französischer Schriftsteller
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