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nothing about any of it and replied that I'd certainly be the lastperson to give Ortiz any advice about how to seduce women.Then there was Andre Derain, tall, well built, and very popular,who remained somewhat separate from the group. He was mucholder than I-at least twenty years~and often used to talk to meabout the Paris Commune. He was the first to tell me about menbeing executed during the fierce repression led by the king's soldiers,simply because they had had calluses on their hands (the stigmata ofthe working class).I was also close to Roger Vitrac, whom Breton and Eluard didn'tmuch like, and to Andre Thirion, the most political member of thegroup. I can still hear Eluard warning me that as far as Thinon wasconcerned, "the only thing he cares about is politics." Coups d'etatwere very much in vogue at the time, and Thirion was predictingthat the Spanish monarchy wasn't long for this world. He used tointerrogate me about geographical details-wooded paths, coastlinecontoursÑs that he could add them to his maps. (Needless to say,I wasn't much help.)Thirion later wrote a book about this period in history calledRhlutionnuires sans revolution, which I very much liked. Of course,he gave himself the starring role (something I suppose we all tendto do, albeit often unconsciously) and revealed some unnecessarilyembarrassing personal information. (On the other hand, I wholeheartedlyendorse what he wrote about Andre Breton.) After the war,Sadoul told me that Thirion had "betrayed" the cause; as a Gaullist,he was responsible for the subway fare increases.It was Jacques Prevert who introduced me to Georges Bataille,the author of the infamous Histoire a2 t'oed, who'd asked to meet mebecause of the outrageous eye scene in Chien andalou. We all haddinner together. Bataille's wife, Sylvia, one of the most beautifulwomen I've ever seen, later married Jacques Lacan. Breton, however,found Bataille vulgar and materialistic, and I thought he had a hardface that looked as if it never smiled.I'm often asked whatever happened to surrealism in the end. It's