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Clément Calvet – “Cafard,” “Song of the Sea”

Peter has a great John Cheever word for it: cafard.”

I wink back the tears which threaten to come, shake his hand hard, and tell him to be sure to come again the next time he has the "cafard".

He had the "cafard"—the blues—and nobody could do anything for him but the Directrice.

She was very tired herself, and for just a moment she reflected that if she had an instant's time, she would probably have the worst fit of "cafard" ever known to man.