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"LES VOYAGEURS"


The Network, though, was happy. It quoted Baudelaire to itself as it rocketed away:

“qui partent / Pour partir ... Et, sans savoir pourquoi, disent toujours: Allons!”

Who leave for the sake of leaving … and without knowing why, they always say: Let’s Go!

In all the words the Network had known, these were its favourite. It imagined smiling faces as it executed the code to remake itself.