#jacques lacarriere

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Si l'on veut trouver certains aspects vivants de la Grèce antique, il ne faut pas les chercher dans les monuments, ni même dans les lieux, mais dans telle façon d'être ou de vivre, dans une tradition, une fête, parfois même un conte.**

- Jacques Lacarrière

**If you want to find certain living aspects of ancient Greece, you should not look for them in the monuments, or even in the places, but in such a way to be or to live, in a tradition, a party, sometimes even a tale.

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La mémoire n'est-elle pas un voyage dans le temps ?

- Jacques Lacarrière

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Aris Alexandrou: One of those who loved, perhaps too much, the truth

Inner freedom The inexplicable The barbed wire, you see, the camp was shrinking every day, the wires were advancing upon us, from all sides, the stars every day lower, the rusty wires closer, the camp narrower, rusty light iron stars fell every day do you understand No, they didn’t understand. Shut up. Even he couldn’t explain how the stars became a crown of thorns as if nothing happened how we…

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Des branches. Des feuilles. Des pétioles. Des folioles. Un monde ramifié qui bouge, bruit et bondit. Un royaume de verdures, de vertiges et de vents. Un labyrinthe de souffles et de murmures. Un arbre en somme.

Jacques Lacarrière, Le Pays sous l’écorce (1980)

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La rencontre avec Artaud, Breton, Gilbert-Lecomte fut plutôt rude mais salutaire. Ils m'ont aidé à décanter ce que Breton, dans un beau passage de la Confession dédaigneuse, nomme ce "complot de forces obscures qui mène à se croire quelque chose d'aussi absurde qu'une vocation". À quoi il ajoute: "On écrit pour chercher des hommes et rien de plus." La lecture de cette phrase confirma en moi ce que je commençais à pressentir: on n'écrit pas pour être connu, admiré, adulé et rien n'est plus absurde et méprisable que l'ambition littéraire. On écrit pour connaître les inconnus qui puisent aux mêmes sources d'exigences et de jouvences, pour chercher l'Autre en soi (et peut-être le Soi des autres), expression de Jean Giono, ce qui est l'exacte antipode de toute ambition littéraire. Personnellement, j'ajouterai que j'ai aussi le sentiment d'écrire pour augmenter le mystère du monde et non pour le résoudre, tache qui incombe davantage aux savants qu'aux poètes.

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It is among the Gnostics that we find the strongest expressions of the theme of alienation and estrangement. There is even a key text among the Nag Hammadi scrolls, entitled *Allogenes*, which means "Stranger" and refers to the author of this tract. According to the editors, this appellation, which literally means "of another race," was a common one in this period for semidivine revealers of higher wisdom. To the Gnostics, the whole process by which this world was created was fundamentally flawed: humanity was a mistake perpetrated by demiurge creators who misplaced us into this gloomy world, which they called a "circle of dark fire." To quote Jacques Lacarriere, "We are exploited on a cosmic scale, we are the proletariat of the demiurge-executioner, slaves exiled into a world that is viscerally subject to violence; we are the dregs and sediment of a lost heaven, strangers on our own planet." The Gnostics taught that all humans suffer this fate of exile. *Gnosis* ("knowledge") is the aware recognition of this state of affairs -- "and when they understand, they are strangers." The sense of alienation, so widespread in Western culture and so particularly acute in twentieth-century consciousness, can be seen as the inevitable and perhaps necessary starting point for personal transformation. Estrangement leads to questioning, searching, and wondering. The quest or search may lead, if we are graced, to an awakening; the journey homeward may lead to the source of our beingness.

Ralph Metzner, in The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

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Unlearning. Deconditioning your birth. Forgetting your name. Going naked. Sloughing away your last remains. Disrobing your memory. Melting down your masks. Ripping up your duties. Dismantling your certainties. Disconnecting your doubts. Losing control of your being. Unbaptizing your springs. Unmapping your roads. Shearing your desires. Gutting your passions. Desacrilizing the prophets. Discrediting the future. Overturning the past. Discouraging time. Unknotting unreason. Deflowering delirium. Defrocking the sacred. Sobering up from vertigo. Defacing Narcissus. Delivering Gilead. Deposing Moloch. Dethroning Leviathan. Demystifying blood. Dissecting the monkey. Disinheriting the ancestor. Unburdening your soul. Unfailing your failures. Disenchanting your despair. Unchaining your hope. Delivering your madness. Defusing your fears. Disencumbering your heart. Disappointing your Death. Debasing your basis. Shredding your acquisitions. Unlearn. Become naked. — Jacques Lacarriere

(also from the remarkable Twi Chi)