Raynal, Henri

The Generosity of the Word. The Unpublished, the Spectacle, the Relaying, the Infinite Commentary - 2018.


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What I am speaking of commands my word. The thing set it in motion —especially if it is unexpected, if it can surprise; it wants to be said: known. To gain acknowledgement. The fact that the word has thus an official assignment does not preclude its generosity. It answers to the present that is made to us by what is. Acknowledgement again, but with a different meaning, in the word of wonder. And there is in the saying a tendency to become a tale. But does the history of the Universe not lend itself to a prodigious narration?