Instinctively I began to read aloud the novel. I love to hear the voice of Jean d'Ormesson and for me his texts were to be sound. I took a lot of pleasure to follow the reasoning of our characters, clearly focused philosophical or religious. It had been too long since I had asked myself existential questions so for once, I found it interesting. Moreover the story is done so that among the four friends met one of them openly criticized the story more "philosophy." Thank you to Jean Ormeson ... among others for teaching me the origin of the word assassin ...