“The letter was written in one gulp, the words came effortlessly and their echo still resonates”
within him, as Guillaume Néry finished his story,
Aquatic Nature
, which had just been published by Éditions Arthaud.
"Dear Mediterranean, this morning, like every morning since we have been allowed to swim and dive again in you, we were together"
, writes the French freediving champion in the preamble.
“If I was certain that you have become indispensable to me, I would have had to be deprived of your caresses during these two spring months to understand that life without you literally has no flavor.
You missed me so much!"
, he continues.
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It is a letter of apology to the sea which “
engulfs our crimes”
and
“agonizes”
while “
we remain deaf to (its) cries of distress”
.
A letter which should have been read live on France Inter by Augustin Trapenard, in his program "Lettres d'intérieur".
But this was interrupted at the end of the first confinement.
And Guillaume Néry finally...
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