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0emtee5144   \nPUT OUT THE LIGHT  \nPUT OUT THE LIGHT  \nA Translation by Cyril Connollyof \"Le Silence de la Mer\"  \nBYVERCORSBruller,Jean]Poeud  \nPut out the light,and then put out the lightOTHELLO  \nLONDONMACMILLAN &CO.LTD  \nI944  \nn.双3,1992His+ 52w  \nA.069。  \nTO THE MEMORY OFSAINT-POL-ROUXTHE MURDERED POET  \nPUBLISHERS'NOTE  \nTHE story of which this is a translation bears in theoriginal the title of Le Silence de la Mer.It was firstpublished in Paris in I942,at the personal expense andperil of a patriotic Frenchman,by an undergroundorganisation calling itself Les Editions de Minuit,and wasafterwards issued in this country as the first volume ofa series entitled Les Cahiers du Silence.  \n# PREFACE\n\nSpring 1943  \nTHREE years have gone by,all but a few weeks.Forthree years the symbol of France has been ...silence.  \nSilence among her crowds,silence in her homes;silence because the German guard is marching back upthe Champs-Elysées at noon,silence because the Germanofficer is billeted in the next room,silence because theGestapo hides its microphone under the hotel bed,silencebecause the children daren't say they are hungry,becauseevery evening the bodies of the hostages who fall makeof every morrow a day of national mourning.  \nAnd then the silence of our thought,the forcedsilence of our writers,deprived of the right to expressthemselves,silence before the world.  \nThose nations which have not lived behind the wallthat Germany has built round the intellect of Europecannot conceive the full measure of what has to beendured.All they need know is that men are givingtheir lives merely to make a chink in that wall.  \nIf while I was in France I had heard that a seriesof books was going to be published in London whichhad been written on French soil since the occupationand that this series was to be called Les Cahiers du Silence,I would have felt that we had been given a 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