I’d very much like to ‘conclude' something from this experiment. Or that it should raise a question in my mind, and a commitment to get to the bottom of the matter, to investigate, to come up with an outline of the beginning of an answer, however ill-defined or trite it might be .. . But no. I’m here to see, hear, observe - to experience. Let others explain. Jacques Yonnet
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