Against the Robots

Emmanuel Di Rossetti’s travel diary


July 2017

  • Diversity (continued)

    … Sounge i felibre esteba… I think of the Félibres… It is the characteristic of good artisans of the Diverse, to turn it over end for end. Would it ever be reached? It is ruin, death. It is always reborn: suddenly behind, when one stretches out one's arms to it from the front. However, over there, Boissière writes: The Continue reading

  • Diversity

    I don't know if, like me, hearing the word diversity (which has replaced the word Other) makes you feel nauseous. Victor Segalen is an author who acts as a remedy for this nausea. A fine example is Jules Boissière, who, a Provençal, a Félibre, wrote his most beautiful Félibre verses in Hanoi. Here is the true Continue reading

  • Craftsman's Prayer

    12th Century Monastic Prayer Teach me, Lord, to use well the time You give me to work… Teach me to unite haste and slowness, serenity and fervor, zeal and peace. Help me at the beginning of the work. Help me in the heart of the labor… And above all, fill the gaps in my work Yourself. Continue reading