Archipelago
This archipelago composed of small islands – unpublished texts.
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Prayer, every morning in the world.
The morning prayer sparkles. The body limbers up to honor the new day. The hand turns over the covers, summoned to wait for the revolution of the day to find a use again. Thrown aside, crumpled, they sag, overturned on the bed when the body rises in the splendor of the dawning day. An eternal moment that recurs as long as the Continue reading
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What is it to be above ground?
The most illuminating example of human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ are talking together and Peter insists that his master believe his devotion is completely sincere. Thus, Jesus tells him that before the rooster crows, he will have denied him three times. The first place Continue reading
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Show “But times always come back…” – 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991)
Show "But times always come back..." — 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991) by Emmanuel Di Rossetti on Vimeo. On August 31, 1991, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment celebrated its 150th anniversary, the Battle of El Moungar, and its return from Operation Daguet, the first Gulf War, during an exceptional cinéscénie. 30,000 spectators from Nîmes attended Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
What a fuss about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time was based on lineage and belonging to a city. Identity was imbued with roots. Family and city gathered under a virtual banner everything that others needed to know about themselves. Continue reading
Antigone , Catholicism , counter-revolution , ethics , intimacy , forgiveness , religion , revolution , totalitarianism -
The quest for identity
In its mad quest to make people believe that we can choose everything all the time, the modern era has methodically replaced being with having. Yet this logic, this ideology, has its limits: certain things cannot be acquired, among them: otherness. Living one's identity, being what one is, inhabiting one's name, allowing intimacy and Continue reading
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Confession of a player (his life told by Maradona)
The life of Diego Armando Maradona is a tale. Because Maradona always remained a child. It is therefore a children's tale and as such it is edifying. We must tell all those who say that Maradona was not exemplary enough for an athlete of his caliber that they are wrong. It is Continue reading