en fin

dubuffet's autobiography ends thus:

"ma santé est mauvaise, je marche difficilement et suis affligé de parmanent essouflement."

though a wonderfully detailed account of his life in studio & in the business of artmaking/vending, ou est la boeuf? i'm off to find the beef--assuming for the moment that it's to be found within the four enormous volumes of " ...tous écrites suivantes." the biography, written in the last months of dubuffet's life perhaps serve to set the record straight on his affairs in the art world, and his reticence to ever participating in the first place.

nouvelle mots:
écoulé : running (as a faucet) or dripping (as paint) .. he uses this term to describe passing years.
par boutade : defined as "as a joke," though boutade is literally "bad/mean humor"
défiler : to unravel, as in to pull loose what is woven into a larger form (loose threads)
dérouler : to unravel, as a plot, or to unwind rather.\\

off to the bibliothèque ...to find michel thévoz