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Where is your heart?

14 Monday Jan 2019

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The problem of today’s society is that we no longer put the heart in relationships but ideas. What a discount! Be able to replace the love with the idea of good, love with the idea of love. It’s so easy! Just say you’re for immigration, for animals, for homosexuals and it’s done! In five seconds you’ve become San Francesco, what does it matter if no one loves you, if your heart dry, if you spend time judging and condemning your fellowman to defend categories, ideas, civil reasoning? The illusion is so dear, so easy, no effort. It’s all wonderful.

No, man doesn’t love that easily. Man learns to love from love, which is a feeling, a presence, a reality and never will be an idea. Never.

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Polar Nature / Nature subpolaire

13 Sunday Jan 2019

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«As you know I have been on the run for more than four months now, not southwards as I gave you to understand, but northwards, it was not warmth to which I was ultimately drawn, but cold, not architecture, my dear architect and building-artist, but nature and in actual fact that quite specific[ally] northern nature, of which I have spoken to you so often, the so-called polar circular nature about which I wrote an essay a full thirty years ago, one of the innumerable secret essays, secreted essays that are never destined for publication, [but] only for annihilation, for I have indeed recently recovered my intention of continuing to live, not of merely prolonging my existence, [for] I am bent on continuing [only] in a [state of] absolute libertinage, my dear architect, my dear building-artist, my dear charlatan of superficies.  Secretly, secretively epoch-making, so to speak, my dear sir.»

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“Comme  vous savez je suis en fuite depuis déjà plus de quatre mois, non en direction du sud, comme je vous l’avais d’abord laissé entendre, mais du nord, en fin de compte ce n’est pas la chaleur qui m’a attiré, mais le froid, pas l’architecture, mon cher architecte et bâtisseur, mais la nature, et plus singulièrement cette nature nordique très particulière dont je vous ai si souvent parlé, cette nature subpolaire, comme on dit, au sujet de laquelle j’avais écris un ouvrage il y a trente ans déjà, l’un de ces ouvrages clandestins, de ces ouvrages cachés qui ne sont pas destinés à être publiés, seulement à être détruis, puisque désormais j’envisage de nouveau de continuer à vivre, non seulement de prolonger mon existence, cher architecte, cher bâtisseur, cher charlatans des surfaces mais de poursuivre mon chemin de la façon la plus débridée qui soit”. Thomas Bernhard

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La météo vue d’en haut

13 Sunday Jan 2019

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Stand fast

10 Thursday Jan 2019

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”Stand and face the rain, let its iron rays pierce you; drift with the water that wants to sweep you away but yet stand fast, and upright in this way abide the sudden and endless shining of the sun” Kafka.

 

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Punto che del futuro

08 Tuesday Jan 2019

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« vediamo come colui che ha mala luce le cose lontane »

«Noi veggiam, come quei c’ha mala luce,

le cose», disse, «che ne son lontano;

cotanto ancor ne splende il sommo duce.

Quando s’appressano o son, tutto è vano

nostro intelletto; e s’altri non ci apporta,

nulla sapem di vostro stato umano.

Però comprender puoi che tutta morta

fia nostra conoscenza da quel punto

che del futuro fia chiusa la porta».

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Le robot donnera son intelligence au leurre

03 Thursday Jan 2019

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