4 (french) Werber, Bernard

Lower, ever lower. Darker, ever more dark. I thought of the
method invented by Aesculapius for treatment of madness.
There was this more than three thousand years, care facility
called Esclapion and which can be still see the ruins in
Turkey, this pioneer of psychiatry had set up a maze of dark
tunnels. After a long wait during which they had been
conditioned Hopefully the supreme pleasure, there’s insane
driving. Chants were heard at the entrance and it sank in
the dark labyrinth, they became more melodious. When
enchanted, stop the insane in the darkest place, is poured
over him a barrel full of sticky snakes under which struggled
while the poor, surprised at the height of bliss. Either he
died on the spot fear, it appeared to be healed. In fact,
Asclepius was invented the electric shock.
Me, adrift in the basement of Fleury-Merogis, I wondering
when I get my barrel of reptiles frozen.
It was then that Raoul exhibited a rusty key that opened a
big studded door. I found behind a large hangar-like
disorder as Capernaum there was Grand There were three
men in a tracksuit and a young blonde woman wearing a
black blouse that gave me a déjà vu.
The men rose and bowed respectfully my friend.
-I present Dr. Michael Pinson, I have already mentioned. -
Thanks for coming, Doctor, they exclaimed in chorus. -
Miss Ballus, our nurse, continued Raoul. I bowed to the girl