And blondes, and brunettes, and cadets, and cornets, and bankers, and poets, and gluttons, and ascetics, and bandits, and aesthetes, and soloists, and quartets, and operetta artists, and princes in their carriages, and keepers of secrets, and arrows from a crossbow, and artists in berets, and lovers of clarets, and accountants with an estimate, all athletes and athletes, stars of Russian ballet, generals, epaulettes, a wire from the half-light, captains in the Carpathians, in passages, in toilets, walkers from all over planets, members of different committees from all different faculties, banquet organizers, newspaper reporters, comet watchers, wise elders from Tibet, parquet polishers, questionnaire scribes, and councilors, all ministers in offices, sirs, peers, baronets, kings, aces, jacks, cooks and their omelets, ghosts and skeletons, even hares without tickets ...
