BB parle avec Coquin

- BB "Addiction is a typically western pathology."

- Coquin : "Des fois, ce qu'on veut, ce n'est pas ce dont on a besoin."

(Bugs Bunny, en discussion avec Maître Coquin)

DFW, Pale King.

Fonctionnaires qui discutent (dans un ascenseur?) :

"The new leader won't lie to the people; he'll do what corporate pioneers have discovered works far better: he'll adopt the persona and rhetoric that let the people lie to themselves. In other words we'll have for a president [Reagan] a symbolic Rebel against his own power whose election was underwritten by inhuman soulless profit-machines whose takeover of American civic and spiritual life will convince Americans that rebellion against the soulless inhumanity of corporate life will consist in buying products from corporations that do the best job of representing corporate life as empty and soulless. We'll have a tyranny of conformist nonconformity presided over by a symbolic outsider whose very election depended on our deep conviction that his persona is utter bullshit. A rule of image, which because it's so empty makes everyone terrified - they're small and going to die afterall - and whose terror of not really ever even existing makes them that much more susceptible to the ontological siren song of the corporate buy-to-stand-out-and-so-exist gestalt."

DFW 3

"Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless."

DFW 2

Pale King, p. 233. Ravissement. Scène où le narrateur juge une jeune Catholique qui l'énerve (p. 214) :

"It's true that her story was stupid and dishonest, but that doesn't mean the experience she had in the church that day didn't happen, or that it's effects on her weren't real. I'm not putting it very well, but I was both right and wrong about her little story. I think the truth is probably that enormous, sudden, dramatic, unexpected, life-changing experience are not translatable or explainable to anyone else, and this is because they really are unique and particular - though not unique in the way the Christian girl believed. This is because their power isn't just a result of the experience itself, but also of the circumstances in which it hits you, of everything in your previous life-experience which has led up to it and made you exactly who and what you are when the experience hits you. Does that make any sense? It's hard to explain."

DFW 1

DFW. Pale King. Tellement bon.

"I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though it is also one the ignorance of which causes great suffering.

But moreover, I discovered, in the only way that a man ever really learns anything important, the real skill that is required in a bureaucracy.

I mean, really succeed: do good, make a difference, serve. I discovered the key. This key is not efficiency, or probity, or insight, or wisdom. It is not political cunning, interpersonal skills, raw IQ, loyalty, vision, or any of the qualities that the bureaucratic world calls virtues, and tests for. The key is a certain capacity that underlies all these qualities, rather the way that an ability to breathe and pump blood underlies all thoughts and actions.

The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom. To function effectively in an environment that precludes everything vital and human. To breath, so to speak, without air.

[...] It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."