Sublime

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot bear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming”

“Patience is the maker of all good things.”

But despite these hopeful words, a look of desperate resignation passed between the two men. They knew the absentee landlords over in London didn’t care about the natives, so long as their plum Irish land continued to yield hearty profits, so long as the grains and cattle they extorted from Ireland continued to fetch their English fortunes.

Take all this away and what have you done to him? In the face of a deprivation so great, what is the use of asking him to go on being the boy he was. He might as well start life over again as some other boy instead.

seul l’écrivain malien Yambo Ouologuem (Le Devoir de violence, 1968) serait capable, en faisant télescoper les siècles de colonisations outrageuses et s’affronter sauvagement les religions, de faire revivre devant lui l’histoire incroyablement mouvementée du Mali.

“Of course, before you read or write another word, you must read Edward Said.