At the beginning of 1966, Denise René planned to publish in a hundred copies a book written by Robert Pinget and illustrated by J.D. Pinget suggested rather than an old lext with a frontispiece a kind of spar between the author and the illustrator: " I write a text, you illustrate it by a drawing, in response to which I write a new text that you illustrate by a second drawing.  And so forth...

Indeed, J.D. and Pinget exchanged ter. texts and drawings over eight months.  Later on, in autumn, J.D. etched his drawings at Lacourière et Frélaut.  From the outset, the dominant mood was one of trickery, since the painter and the writer gave each other less an answer than an incitement " to discover themselves ". Incidentally, Pinguet also painted before... He had the last word in the end and wrote to J. D. in return for his tenth drawing:

The hole texts, as well as J.D.'s ten engravings were fully reproducd in Art Press, issue 39 July 1980.