Oncléo

L'art de ne pas écrire de livres n'est pas encore inventé. Mais qu'on se rassure. Il est sur le point de l'être.

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Choisis ton champ, camarade

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Elle est retrouvée.

— Quoi ?

L'éternité.

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[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Humpback whales singing off the leeward coast of O’ahu

(sound on 🔉)

[oncleo]

le monde s'est rempli de paroles

(au point qu'on n'en peut plus parler)

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Alchimie du Ver

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[oncleo]

Le grand principe de la vertu, c’est que l’âme s'exerce à se passer des biens mondains et périssables, afin de pouvoir un jour les abandonner. Il est encore tendre, l’homme pour qui la patrie a de la douceur ; fort, celui pour qui toute terre est patrie ; mais l’homme accompli, c’est celui qui vit le monde entier comme un exil. 

Hugues de Saint-Victor

[funeral]

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration

[oncleo]

"Narrating and listening foster each other. The narrative community is a community of careful listeners. A particular kind of attention is inherent to careful listening. People who listen carefully are oblivious to themselves; they immerse themselves in what they hear: ‘The more self-forgetful the listener is, the more deeply what he listens to is impressed upon his memory’(Benjamin). We are increasingly losing the gift to listen carefully. We play to the gallery; we eavesdrop on each other instead of forgetting ourselves and listening intensely."

[oncleo]

Trouver, c’est en grande partie savoir ce que l’on cherche.

Augustin

[oncleo]

L’étude de la réalité du monde selon des méthodes scientifiques remplit et gouverne notre vie ; elle est, si l’on veut, notre mythe ; car nous n’en avons pas d’autre qui soit universellement valable.

Auerbach

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[oncleo]

— Je voudrais être la baleine, murmura-t-elle dans mon cou.