1) Often the act of writing itself seems stupid, so present is the idea that we wish to write. [ Souvent stupide paraît l'acte d'écrire, tant présente est l'idée que l'on souhaite écrire.]
2) To be written, an idea must be unachieved, incomplete, cold. [Pour être inscriptible, une idée doit être inachevée, incomplète, refroidie.]
Strange instant [étrange instant] (where life presents more than one single direction to take, instead offers a fork). To live, intensely.
3) The Internet is a technology offering a potential that can be defined in a few vertiginous words:
- ability to communicate (in human languages) to anyone (in the world)
- ability to publicize all visual and auditive human creation (exhibition of pieces, and orchestration of the works : not just listing/ordering of the works, the word is too weak: each page/site is dynamic: its links constitutes the movement for which the permanent communication (to/from the page, sites, links) is attached to.
Compared to the Internet/digital era, may 68, the industrial revolution, the space conquest, the crusades,... all those are like cat pee : jokes.
The Internet/digital era can be compared to the movement of religions through human history. In later times, it may appear that religions were also a joke compared to the Internet/digital era.
4) Travels are traumas. Brains forget the effects of travels, the transformations they bring upon.
Like travels, love is a trauma.
5) Every trauma has 2 essential characters:
- L'ipseité (to be checked) = uniqueness : unique if the subject is I, otherwise can be perfectly banal if the subject is someone else (cf. Vladmir Jankelevitch, Death).
- Forgetfulness, or hiding process : the brain forces details to hide, to be transformed.
6) The analytical studies of language often forget the ethnological and/or psychological(*) about why words and structure of a language are created as such.
(for instance: Paul knows vs. Paul believes, let's not forget the original purpose of words, vehicles of a message from one to another).
It's like using a mathematical theory without some of its theorems or axioms: it's useless and frustrating, it immediately looks incomplete.
(*) 3 prehistorical men would create a similar language to a million of men, as they have the same needs and conditions. Hence the importance of psychology in the creation and meaning of any language.
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