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At the XXIV Congress of the NLS (New Lacanian School), Varité: The Variations of Truth in Psychoanalysis, held in Paris on 27 and 28 June 2026, Jacques-Alain Miller commented on one of the presented cases as follows:

Besides, many things in your text are elliptical: you count on very intelligent readers, who can fill in a good deal of information that you merely slip in [glissez: also “smuggle in”, “drop in passing”]. Yes, that brings to mind, I believe, the line: “Glide, mortals, do not press”. […] So, this male identification…

Miller uses the word glisser in the sense of “slipping in, smuggling” information, and then refers to a line by Pierre-Charles Roy from the caption to an engraving after Nicolas Lancret's L'Hyver:

The engraving L'Hyver: a man skating on a frozen pond while a kneeling man fastens a young woman's skate — Click to enlarge: Nicolas de Larmessin after Nicolas Lancret, *L'Hyver*, from the series *Les Quatre Saisons*, 1745. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (public domain).

Sur un mince cristal l'Hyver conduit vos pas ;
Le précipice est sous la glace.
Telle est de vos plaisirs la légère surface :
Glissez, Mortels, n'appuiez pas.

In English this can be rendered as:

On a thin crystal winter guides your steps;
the precipice lies beneath the ice.
Such is the light surface of your pleasures:
glide, mortals, do not press.

Wiktor Hołubowicz