Comrades

'A feeling of perhaps still having 'friends' but no longer any 'comrades' (= fellow workers or, at the very least, comrades who give you encouragement with the idea that they are working too)', W. reads from Leiris' journal. Giacometti had just died. Bataille. Leiris only had Limbour and Queneau, but they weren't comrades, for all his admiration of them. No comrades, W. understands what that means …