Both are written in Yiddish.

Je ne sais pas, moi, on pourrait attenter à la pudeur, pour ne choisir que le plus évident. Mais aussi à l'honneur ou à la continuité de l'État, pourquoi pas ? Ce serait de saison. Mais non. Le français d'aujourd'hui, quand il attente, c'est toujours à la vie.

Soudain très envie d'écrire un jeu où une troupe d'enquêteurs professionnels commence dans une cave étrange et doit remonter à la surface pour devenir bibliothécaires ou professeurs d'université (brrr).

And the fascinating part is, it doesn't really matter what you're specifically collecting, but going about these specific objects in every excruciating details is the only way to make sense of it all.

I have absolutly no interest in Transformers in any shape or form (of which they have many, I heard), but I immensely enjoy your newsletters, Alec. Fantastic pieces of writing and self-reflection, as funny as they are sincere.

Please write more.

Benthiques (10) : french for "living on the ocean soil", more or less. Plural form.

Wagon-lits (9) ! French, for sleeping car.

A french reader would not have blinked an eye, here. Friable is a really common word over there, with this exact meaning.

The plural form push it to 11!

Dithyrambe (10), french for Dithyramb, lyrical poem.

I have déguerpis (9), french for "Flee!", infinitive déguerpir, imperative mood. But I'm sad I didn't find something intersting ending wih "ez" (very common in french).

Cautérise (9), french verb, meaning "cauterize", present tense, first or third person singular.

Baptismaux (10), plural of baptismal, adj., relative to baptism.

It is. Writing is a line, then a loop back to the beginning, then a a slightly longer line, then a loop back to the beginning, then a slightly longer line, etc. It never stops all by itself. You have to decide it's done at an almost arbitray point in the process.