Céline's False Identity Card 1944

I apologize for talking about myself...I'm overdoing
it...troubles?...you have your own!...these literary
men are the limit...so afflicted with me-me-ism...
and what about doctors? Just as bad!...and plumbers?
...and barbers?...all the same...no modesty...and
cabinet ministers?...and Abbé Pierre, the one-man
movie?...I keep thinking of Charon...the way he'll
knock the me-me-ism out of them! the whole crew!
with his blessed oar full in the snout! wham! from
ear to ear!...you get the picture...

From Céline's Castle to Castle
Translation Ralph Manheim