The translator to the white courtesy phone, please

And now a complaint about Sources.  Taylor is in the habit of quoting things in French or German, after which he rightly provides a translation.  Except sometimes he doesn't.  Usually he doesn't after fairly short lines, which presumably aren't that important, but then why include them anyway?  But at least then you know that you aren't getting the translation.  Sometimes he acts in a fashion (lights, please) altogether more sinister, as here on p 470:

Breton's aim was to get from himself "un monologue de débit aussi rapide que possible, sur lequel l'esprit critique du sujet ne fasse porter aucun jugement, qui s'embarasse, par conséquent, d'aucune réticence, et qui soit aussi exactement que possible la pensée parlée" ("a monologue to be spoken as rapidly as possible without any intervention on the part of the critical faculties, a monologue consequently unencumbered by the slightest inhibition").

Even I, with no French, can tell that the quotation has not been translated completely.  (Only now do I think to check the footnote, where we read that the translation was quoted in a different book.  But surely Taylor has French enough to finish the job?)

Unrelatedly, the utterance by me earlier today of the rather too too phrase "Time moves in one direction only, my friend: the direction of increasing regret" caused me to remember that this clown (to whom the utterance was directed) once came up with the excellent variation "every time god closes a door, he locks it", which it only just now ocurred to me fits perfectly with the Oulipian cut-rate proverbs such as "red sky at night, enjoy the sunset"; "redhead at night, sailor's delight"; "many are called but few are home"; "who steals my purse is out of luck", which apparently are to be found in Bibliothèque oulipienne vol 60, by François Caradec (I despaired of ever finding this again, but it turns out I cleverly put a bookmark at just the right place in the Compendium).  I think a list of such things would be perfect for publication in McSweeney's.