All-black Paper Mache Globe... Silent Globe

But when did this blackened papier-mâché globe date from, where, apart from the equator, only the meridians and time zones can be seen? Surely an instrument of torture for the children who had to draw a chalk line on it at the behest of the teacher who was sniggering under his breath... I remember it as if it were yesterday, the desk on the platform, the globe on the piece of furniture... The teacher in his duster handed me the chalk, I still shudder, my name had been drawn... Aléa jacta est; With aplomb, I marked the five points that I had to position on the ball... The sentence was immediate: two out of five... I can still hear the sniggering of my enemies... Laugh, laugh, you could locate the latitude of the Bering Strait, where to cross the Tropic of Cancer, check that the time in Cameroon is the same as in Greenwich, you??? It's me who's jubilant now... This globe from the 50s and 60s was produced by the company Interprinderea Poligrafica in Brasov, Romania...