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Time (Rusty Draper; Mercury). A cheerful complaint indeed, considering the scope of the problem, sung over a chuckling, shuffle beat. Chorus: "Time, you're a villain,/Time you're a thief,/ Time you stole my youth from me/and now you bring me grief...
...Special Cases. Scarcely had Grainville moved into his new post when another prisoner, a petty thief named Jean Manguy, caught the warden's ear with some choice views on Baudelaire, Proust and Dramatist Henry Bernstein. "Ah," said Warden Billa, "I appoint you my private secretary...
...very first rounds of Pont-l'Evéque prison, Warden Billa found a kindred spirit in René Grainville, a forger and car thief. "You know," René told him, "I'm only here because of wild oats sown in my youth. I'm really a poet, and I've written several novels." Billa was fascinated. "You," Billa said at last, "are obviously misplaced. I appoint you prison accountant...
...duty to report that there is a thief among us and, among all thieves, the most miserable and contemptible. He has stolen what others need and he cannot...
...justice be done! Let the thief be brought to justice! Let there be lines...