1935-09: (Valcin’s Odyssey of Organizing — Novelist Cléante Valcin Narrating the September 1935 Journey to Saint-Marc in La Voix des Femmes as a Mythically C…

1935-09: (Valcin’s Odyssey of Organizing — Novelist Cléante Valcin Narrating the September 1935 Journey to Saint-Marc in La Voix des Femmes as a Mythically Characterized Odyssey, Two Steel Beasts Sweating Blowing but Not Deterred Rolling on the Brown and Very Stony Road Led by the Skillful Hands of Two Young Friends of the League MM. Sylvain and Moïse, the Cars Often Stoned by an Unknown Teasing Spirit — the Travelers Stopping Briefly in Arcahaie Before Continuing North, the Sea Playing Hide and Seek with Them for Five Ten Fifteen Minutes at a Time on the Same Path): Novelist Cléante Valcin narrated the September 1935 journey to Saint-Marc in La Voix des Femmes as a mythically characterized odyssey. On the brown and very stony road, the two steel beasts — sweating, blowing, but not deterred — were often stoned by an unknown teasing spirit. Led by the skillful hands of two young friends of the League, MM. Sylvain and Moïse, they rolled on without stopping, arriving quickly in Arcahaie where they parked for a few minutes before continuing. The sea — the sea that Valcin loved so much — played hide and seek with the travelers, appearing for five, ten, fifteen minutes at a time on the same path. The journey northward was narrated not as a simple trip report but as a passage through a mythic landscape of beasts, gods, and a personified sea.