The bad printing part 2 [january the 1st] par William Henne

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1a I dream again of the book manufacturing. To supervise the printing, I have an appointment in a school.

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1b The printer has installed its machines in a class room.

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2a I inspect the pages with the printerâ€¦

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2b The students are attentively looking at us.

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3a Freshly printed, the pages are brought in another room. Blank notebooks are piled up on the tables.

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3b A trainee attends me. We must cut the pictures, one by one, to stick them in the notebooks, like a Pannini album.

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4a Our first copy is a disaster. All is messed up. We say : itâ€™s like pancakes, the first one is always spoiled.

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4b My colleague arrives in the school.

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5a I tell him: the carrier arrives in three days. Our distributor to Paris must begin his work. We are very late. My colleague seems faraway. He doesnâ€™t realize or he doesnâ€™t care. I hurry him. We still have to make thousand copies !

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5b His detachment frightens me. I reproach him his offhand manner. I scold him. He remains calm and stoic. Itâ€™s getting on my nerves. I make an appointment with him in two days, to finish all these books.

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6a I tell him to wait for me, that he doesnâ€™t realize, that he has to see at least the first copy, made with the trainee. I return in the school, to the research of this first book.

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6b If I show him this copy, my colleague should at last share my anguish and to put himself to work. But itâ€™s hopeless, I think. I lose myself in the labyrinth of the school.

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7a I finally find the book.

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7b I still see my colleague in the school.

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8a A teacher crudely shouts at me. Heâ€™s speaking English. He tells me that I have humiliated him in front of his students. As I donâ€™t know what heâ€™s talking about, he insults me. I rush off.