Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of capitalism, the practice survives today, reflecting humans’ eternal destructiveness of nature and the creatures unable to resist them.

Build. Rebuild. Grieve. Buy a green plant.

A ghost tries to make contact with a poet. At the reception center for minors in Pont-Bragnolles (which is actually an orphanage, but that word is not said there) Thomas invents, Thomas fantasizes.