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Chapter 7

The Wood

The workshop is eight hundred square metres under a steel roof frame, and the first thing you take in there is not the noise: it is the smell.

— Oak, signs Yanis. And a bit of beech at the back. Beech smells of soup.

He shows her round in the order of the work, which is the only way to understand a workshop.

First the stock, in stacks separated by battens so that the air can circulate. He takes out a board, stands it on edge, closes one eye and looks along the grain.

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