Of a curious hypertrophy
The-best-informed-newspaper inadvertently published on Sunday an admirable poem by Charles Nordmann; in every astronomer there is a poet who sleeps during the day and wakes up during the night.
It was about the Leonids, shooting stars formed from the dust of a defunct comet that died at the time when Marius was preparing to defeat the Teutons... and the Teutons, since...

Charles Nordmann, about the Leonids, writes this:
"Thus, the inflexible calculation carries us away on its immaterial wings and, beyond the stars, links the ephemeral present to the defunct past... On the convulsive ocean of appearances and pains, the shooting stars in the night form like a symbolic oriflamme of fleeting tears of gold on a agitated crepe."
Which is worth, both from an astronomical and pictorial point of view, the golden sickle thrown into the field of stars.

The readers of the best-informed newspaper must have been left like a million custard apples... But, the very next day, the best-informed newspaper rehabilitated itself by giving sensational news of Lloyd George's skull, which had been stuffed by the care of its special envoys and personal correspondents.

Here is the headline of the news: "Mr. Lloyd George's head continues to grow"... The British Phrenological Society (whose headquarters remain mysterious) has noted that the circumference of Mr. Lloyd George's head, which measured 25 inches in 1903, has grown by a quarter of an inch (about 6 millimeters) in the space of eight years. This is not an accidental swelling of the skin of the thumb or skull, an edema that can be treated medically or surgically, but a progressive macrocephaly, with normal progress and of intellectual origin. The same fact was observed in the English writer Bart Kennedy, whose head grew by three-quarters of an inch in ten years, a period during which he wrote eleven books. The brain, in intellectuals, develops through exercise, like muscle in athletes, and it would burst the skull if the skull did not follow the movement, to the great surprise of anatomy professors.

I claim priority for this discovery. During the war, I observed and noted here the hypertrophy of the skull in senior military personnel as they became more senior; intelligence developing in a way proportional to rank and in accordance with hierarchy.

This is a phenomenon well known to suppliers who make braided kepis. The braids of the kepi, for military heads, play the same role as the circles that surround barrels and casks full of generous wine; when the wine ferments, the barrel would burst if it were not guaranteed by external hoops against the internal thrust.

To contain the intelligence of a simple second lieutenant or lieutenant, one or two hoops are enough; three are needed for a captain, five for a colonel, and the enclosure must be made of oak when it is a general.

The discovery of the best-informed newspaper consists in this observation that civilians do not wear kepi, their skull can freely flourish and develop. According to the case of the writer Bart Kennedy, the volume of the skull is directly proportional to the number of volumes written. If you meet a Negro*Auxiliary who prepares someone's work and in particular an anonymous person who writes for a personality, who composes the works of a known author.
You know that it is not the young Blaise Delmuter who writes Joseph's books. Delmuter only makes his speeches. For books, I do not know Joseph's ghostwriter (Duhamel, Passion J. Pasquier, 1945, p.116):
3. A publisher having asked him to translate it into Russian, [Le Capital] he set to work, but in the course of the work, he felt seized by an insurmountable boredom, the pen fell from his hands, and he passed the translation to ghostwriters who finished it for him. Tharaud, Cruelle Esp., 1937, p.58. (extract CNRTL) in the street [in french one who, in the shadows, writes novels for a famous writer or a personality, a politician for example, Editor's note] who is obliged to transport his skull on a wheelbarrow, be assured that this Negro is a Negro of Mr. Guy de Téramond. As for the case of Mr. Lloyd George, it comes under transcendental politics. And it will certainly be the subject of a well-documented article by Mr. Stéphane Lauzanne, if Charles Nordmann does not request it to justify his theory of shooting stars and extinguished stars.

G. DE LA FOUCHARDIÈRE