Against the Robots

Emmanuel Di Rossetti’s travel diary

Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti

  • Spiritual Communion according to Saint Alphonsus Liguori

    My God, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and my soul longs for you. Since I cannot now receive you in the Blessed Sacrament, come at least in a spiritual way into my heart. I embrace you as if you were within me and I unite myself… Continue reading

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  • François Lagarde, photographer of Ernst Jünger

    Eulogy for François Lagarde, friend of 25 years, photographer of Ernst Jünger, whose film, "The Red and the Grey," is a testament. François Lagarde died on January 13, 2017. Continue reading

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  • Max Jacob's Prayer to the Virgin Mary

    Praise be to this little country girl, who deserved to be the mother of God! It seems to me that she was born in Brittany and lived there before my very eyes… She is unique. She is greeted by Gabriel; she deserves it: that is why God is upon her. He is in… Continue reading

  • Being yourself

    Being oneself never fades into habit. Identity is a quest and an affirmation, a perpetual enantiodromos, like a state of siege that fears no enemy. Who am I? Where am I going? Constantly accepting to question oneself and explore the mystery of life, but armored by what one knows… Continue reading

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  • The revolutionary and forgiveness

    The revolutionary has no appetite for forgiveness, for he detests the gift that seems suspect to him and the other with whom he might have sealed his future. For the revolutionary, driven by envy, the only form of forgiveness worthy of him involves the humiliation or death of his opponent in order to celebrate his victory… Continue reading

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  • The will alone or the will alone

    Antigone knows that man must not believe in his will alone. Here too, it is a question of power swelling with its own pride. Will alone becomes perverted, corrupted, withered, and arrogant. Will alone, or the will alone that often accompanies it, takes over the space as soon as a higher power, authority, is forgotten. All… Continue reading

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  • The time is not right for governments to last

    The future Pius IX, still a cardinal, responding to Emperor Napoleon III, said this: “Sire, when great statesmen like Your Majesty object that the time has not yet come, I have no choice but to bow down because I am not a great statesman. But I am a bishop, and as a bishop I reply to them:… Continue reading

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  • Marie Lataste in 1843

    Jesus Christ said to Marie Lataste during the vision she had in 1843: “I am the first king, the first sovereign of France! I am the master of all peoples, all nations, all empires, all dominions. I am particularly the master of… Continue reading

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  • Claude Bruaire

    Pain refers to the "negative" sensation in an attack that affects the body. The word is used for localized aggression, of varying intensity, reserving "suffering" for the ordeal of the whole being, struck in its depths, in its personal being. An Ethics for Medicine: From Medical Responsibility to Moral Obligation. Fayard Publishers. Continue reading

  • Poetry by Philippe Mac Leod

    There is no greater vertigo than your exposed face (…). It is there, on the edge of this barely opened abyss, that one discovers how close the flesh is to the soul. Advance into Deep Life, Ad Solem Editions. Continue reading

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  • Our secret, a mystery

    We each have our own secret, which we initially keep to ourselves. Marcel Jouhandeau, in Elements for an Ethics. Grasset Publishers. Continue reading

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  • Diversity (continued)

    …Sounge i felibre esteba… I think of the Félibres… It is characteristic of the good artisans of Diversity, to turn it inside out like this. Would it ever be reached? That is ruin, death. It is always reborn: suddenly backward, when arms are extended 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 and a member of the Félibrige movement, wrote his most beautiful Félibrige verses in Hanoi. Here is the real… Continue reading

  • Prayer of the craftsman

    Twelfth-century monastic prayer: Teach me, Lord, to make good use of the time You give me for work… Teach me to unite haste and slowness, serenity and fervor, zeal and peace. Help me at the beginning of my work. Help me in the heart of my labor… And above all, fill in the gaps in my work Yourself… Continue reading

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