CONGRESS SPECIAL N°6
Sunday 21 MAY
FOUR CURRENT FORMS OF DISCONTENT
3 – WAR
Chaired and Facilitated by Gil Caroz
That is how the war started, probably, though by now it is too late to know precisely.
It is spreading across the grey plain. It fills space.
Sickness that ruptures membranes and sets the lymph flowing. It has chosen places inhabited by man.
It has burst the dykes. It has touched the earth with the tip of its cone of pain, a single nerve among millions of nerves. It has sought out the body of one girl among the millions of other girls.
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But of course war has always been war and exists outside thought.
It is everywhere.
In the night’s dreams, in the sun’s gradual setting, in love, in hatred, in vengeance.
It has only just started.
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It is not an accident. It is not an event. It is war.*
* J.M.G. Le Clézio, War
Three presentations will be given and discussed.
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