À un ami, je donne à lire un conte. Il sort de sa maison, parcourt la campagne, se répète le conte à voix haute, rejoint la mer. Et c’est ainsi qu’un tailleur de pierre, devenu successivement riche, roi, soleil, nuage, roc, redevient tailleur de pierre.

I give a friend a tale to read. He leaves his house, walks across the countryside, repeats the tale to himself, and arrives at the sea. And so it was that a stonecutter, who became rich, then king, then sun, then cloud, then rock, became a stonecutter once again.