… Sounge i felibre esteba… I'm thinking of the Félibres… It's characteristic of the good artisans of the Divers, to turn it over like this end for end. Would it ever be achieved? It is ruin, death. It is always reborn: suddenly behind, when in front you hold out your arms to it.
However, there, Boissière writes: The Buddha, Cemetery of Annam, etc.
In 96, a year before his death, admirable verses of reverse exoticism:
Today, tired of waiting for the kiss of the Sirens — My weary Flesh returns to the native village — where the echo of the world still fascinates me...
Over there, wandering, smoke twists: They are old desires , old sins that burn….
Victor Segalen, Essay on Exoticism, An Aesthetics of Diversity , Editions Fata Morgana.
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