ABSTRACT

Queneau, Raymond In a bus of the S-line, 10 meters long, 3 wide, 6 high, at 3 km 600 m from its starting point, loaded with 48 people, at 1217 p.m., a person of the masculine sex aged 27 years 3 months and 8 days, 1 m 72 cm tall and weighing 65 kg and wearing a hat 35 cm in height round the crown of which a ribbon 60 cm long, interpellated a man aged 48 years 4 months and 3 days, 1 m 68 cm tall and weighing 77 kg, by means of 14 words whose enunciation lasted 5 seconds and which alluded to some involuntary displacements of from 15 to 20 mm. Then he went and sat down about 1 m 10 cm away. 57 minutes later he was 10 meters away from the suburban entrance to the Gare Saint-Lazare and was walkmg up and down over a distance of 30 m with a friend aged 28, 1 m 70 cm tall and weighing 71 kg who advised him in 15 words to move by 5 cm in the direction of the zenith a button which was 3 cm in diameter.