Analyze a book! What would you say about a guest who, after eating a ripe peach, took the morsels out of his mouth to look at them?
--French writer Jules Renard (1864-1910) in his diary, 15 March 1892
Analyser un livre! Que dirait-on d'un convive qui, mangeant une pêche mûre, en retirerait les morceaux de sa bouche pour voir?