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AN INTERROGATION OF THE "REAL" IN ALL ITS GUISES



Hamm: What's happening?
Clov: Something is taking its course.
Beckett




Showing posts with label Mallarme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mallarme. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 September 2014

Mallarmé Sonnets

Oui, je sais qu'au lointain de cette nuit, la Terre
Jette d'un grande éclat l'insolite mystère
Sous les siècles hideux qui l'obscurcissent moins.

Yes, I know that far from this night, the Earth
Casts a brilliant mystery of unusual light
Beneath the hideous centuries that obscure it less

Mallarmé

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

To love is to struggle...


"To love is to struggle, beyond solitude, with everything in the world that can animate existence- this world where I see for myself the fount of happiness my being with someone else brings.  'I love you' becomes: in this world there is a fount you are for my life.  In the water from this fount, I see our bliss, yours first.  As in Mallarme's poem, I see:

                In the wave you become
               Your naked ecstasy."


Alain Badiou

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Mallarmé



Une proposition qui émane de moi - si, diversement, citée à mon éloge ou par blâme - je la revendique avec celles qui se presseront ici - sommaire veut, que tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir à un livre... Le pliage est, vis-à-vis de la feuille imprimée grande, un indice, quasi religieux : qui ne frappe pas autant que son tassement, en épaisseur, offrant le minuscule tombeau, certes, de l’âme.