Chapter 1
Volume 3: 3: Marius · Book 1: 1: Paris Atomised I
1: Parvulus
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PARIS has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.
Couple these two ideas, the one containing all the heat of the furnace, the other all the light of the dawn; strike together these two sparks, Paris and infancy: and there leaps forth from them a little creature. Homuncio, Plautus would say.