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Future does not exist

26 Sunday Jul 2020

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I realize that the past has not disappeared , it is precisely etched in eternity.  I feel it more and more, as if it was  god himself who was moved by our memories, as if they were engraved in his depth like the most precious thing. The past is the only thing we can know. Every second of the present is already in the past. You don’t know the present, you can only be attentive, but everything that is happening before your eyes has already happened. The future simply does not exist. It is only this eternal tale, the past that demands your attention. It makes me remember Dante saying :

«Noi veggiam, come quei c’ha mala luce, le cose», disse, «che ne son lontano; cotanto ancor ne splende il sommo duce. 102 Quando s’appressano o son, tutto è vano nostro intelletto; e s’altri non ci apporta, nulla sapem di vostro stato umano. 105 Però comprender puoi che tutta morta fia nostra conoscenza da quel punto che del futuro fia chiusa la porta». ////

“We see, like those with faulty vision,
things at a distance, he replied. That much,
for us, the mighty Ruler’s light still shines.
‘When things draw near or happen now,
our minds are useless. Without the words of others
we can know nothing of your human state.
Thus it follows that all our knowledge
will perish at the very moment
the portals of the future close.”

 

 

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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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Ciseau 1-L’éternelle rengaine de Dante à Dostoïevski

28 Friday Feb 2014

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De 1307 à 1321, ce fut la genèse de la divine comédie : rupture avec le moyen âge, espoir d’une renaissance, pressentiment d’un nouvel enfer, celui qui régnera sur terre.

1601, Parait Hamlet : le monde entier est une prison, le constat a un effet dégrisant, voire même paralysant au début. Pourtant, Hamlet fait son choix, se révolte, veut arracher les «cordes pourries ».

De 1605 à 1615 fut écrit Don Quichotte, tentative admirable mais combien triste d’pposer au froid calcul et à l’intérêt sordide de l’honneur, la justice, la beauté, ces sentiments des âmes ardentes ; volonté presque touchante de vaincre l’esprit de lucre et son époque nouvelle par les rêveries anciennes, en fermant les yeux.

En 1808, puis en 1831 s’impriment les deux parties de Faust, œuvre qui embrasse toute la lutte des hommes pour leur libération, poème ou les défaites ne sont que ce qu’elles doivent être : des arguments en faveur de la poursuite du combat.

1866, le monde apprend la parution de crime et châtiment avec toute la portée qu’on lui connait, explication épouvantable et microscopique de la vie terrestre. Son œuvre a mis en évidence, la corrélation profonde avec la géniale révélation de Schiller qui ne se contentait pas de considérer les passions dans leurs extrêmes aberrations mais se rendait bien compte combien elles étaient liées au système de pensé de l’individu.

À chaque œuvre philosophique ou littéraire on découvrait une nouvelle fois la même vérité: le résultat ne s’obtient jamais d’un coup. Depuis les anciens jusqu’à Dostoieveski en passant par Dante, Cervantes, Shakespare, Goethe,Schiller, Balzac: Ne voit-t on pas la une matérialisation progressive des problèmes éternels de l’humanité? Qui se condensent, se concrétisent? De la lutte des titans si chère à Yünger ?

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Titre: Gitarren statt Knarren/ La place des armes.

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