There he moved into an eight-by twenty-foot chicken coop that he converted into a little house by raising it onto cinderblocks and building a sleeping loft inside.
The Battle of Cambrai, tank soldiers were worried about German soldiers throwing sticky bombs, hand grenades, onto the top, so they put chicken wire cages.
But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux occurring against no background and mostly unintelligible.