La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams

No. 89: September 1971

Crosswords

I’m talking to a friend about a project for the reissue of Politique-Hebdo. We meet two (or three) girls who used to work for the weekly and are preparing to go back there. In theory, there’s no question of my setting crossword puzzles for them. I think about it nonetheless, “in petto”; I have a number of grids at the ready and no shortage of ideas for new ones. The only question to work out would be that of fees. I think of an excellent clue for “GRANT”—his most famous children didn’t take his name. But no, silly, that’s not “GRANT,” that’s obviously “VERNE.” I find not a new definition for “GRANT” but another one for “VERNE”: A Jules who wasn’t.