…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, there, Boissière writes: The Buddha, Cemetery of Annam, etc.
In 1996, a year before his death, admirable verses of reverse exoticism:
Today, weary of waiting for the Sirens' kiss — My weary Flesh returns to the native village — where the echo of the world still fascinates me…
Over there, wandering, wisps of smoke twist: They are old desires , old sins that burn… .
Victor Segalen, Essay on Exoticism, An Aesthetics of Diversity , Fata Morgana Editions.
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