
Dans le premier rêve, les trois experts en poésie étaient libérés de l’obligation de faire du sens, car les trois extraits seraient taillés de façon à en faire des macarons circulaires contre le fascisme, de sorte que les mots eux-mêmes seraient incomplets; puis, une longue visite très triste dans un musée d’art, l’un des leaders de la visite s’épanche et je le fais danser pour en faire une représentation pour les autres, puis je me perds dans une maquette représentant le Canada, avec des escalades périlleuses, dans le parking à l’extérieur, je trouve un morceau de pierre sale et boueux mais il s’agit de jade pur, je le récupère — la tristesse des visiteurs, la note qui prédomine dans ce rêve.
Je m’éveille sur la chanson que chantait Deborah Kerr à son fils dans le film The King and I où elle interprétait l’anglaise arrivant comme gouvernante pour les enfants du roi de Siam. Entendue il y a plus de 65 ans, la chanson défile au complet dans ma tête :
Whenever I feel afraid, I hold myself erect and whistle a happy tune so one will suspect
I’m afraid
While shivering in my shoes, I strike a careless pose and whistle a happy tune so no one ever knows
I’m afraid
The result of this deception is very strange to tell for when I fool the people I fear
I fool myself as well
I whistle a happy tune and every single time the happiness in the tune convinces me that I’m
not afraid
Make believe you’re brave, and the trick will take you far, you may be as brave as you make believe you are (twice)
Après avoir terminé la lecture sur Nvidia et son patron qui refuse de croire aux risques inhérents dans la course débridée entre individus et nations concurrentes à la “super-intelligence” de machines nourries au meilleur comme au pire de ce que l’humanité peut produire, pas sûre que de siffloter un petit air guilleret suffise, mais partons tout de même la journée sur ce pied.
(Prochaine lecture sur ce thème : FAIK de Perry Carpenter – A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions — FAIK – Un Guide Pratique de Vie dans un Monde de Deepfakes, de Désinformation et de Tromperies.)
Dans ses lettres incluses dans l’Herbier de prison, en juillet 1917, Rosa Luxemburg est transférée de la forteresse de Wronke à la prison de Breslau, perdant ainsi accès au petit jardin et à ses oiseaux qu’elle nourrissait de la fenêtre de sa cellule. Dans ses lettres de prison, en Turquie en 2015, Zehra Dogan racontait la même chose : à quel point elle est ses compagnes étaient attachées aux oiseaux qui se posaient de l’autre côté des grilles. Dans moins d’une semaine, je serai chez mon amie près de Saumur qui fut sa principale correspondante et organisatrice de sa campagne de soutien. J’ai hâte.
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In the first dream, three poety experts are freed of the obligation to make sense out of them, since the three exerpts will be cut into round badges against fascism, thus making the words incomplete on the borders; then, a long and very sad visit in an art musuem, one of the leaders of the visit confides in me and I make him dance so as to turn this into a representation for the others, then I get lost in a mock-up representing Canada with death-defying rock climbing, in the outside parking, I come across a dirty and muddy piece of stone, but it’s made of pure jade, I leave with it, the sadness of the visitors, the predominant note.
I wake to the song Deborah Kerr sang to her son in the film The King and I where she played the English woman arriving to serve as governess to the children of the king of Siam. Heard more than 65 years ago, the song plays out in full in my head :
Whenever I feel afraid, I hold myself erect and whistle a happy tune so one will suspect
I’m afraid
While shivering in my shoes, I strike a careless pose and whistle a happy tune so no one ever knows
I’m afraid
The result of this deception is very strange to tell for when I fool the people I fear
I fool myself as well
I whistle a happy tune and every single time the happiness in the tune convinces me that I’m
not afraid
Make believe you’re brave, and the trick will take you far, you may be as brave as you make believe you are (twice)
After reading about Nvidia and its leader who refuses to believe in the inherent risks of an unbridled race to the “super-intelleigence” of machines fed on what humanity has best and worst, I’m not sure if whistling a happy tune will suffice, but let’s start the day on the footing at least.
(Next reading on this theme : FAIK by Perry Carpenter – A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions)
In her letters included in l’Herbier de prison, in July 1917, Rosa Luxemburg was transferred from the fortress in Wronke to the prison in Breslau, thus losing access to the small garden and her birds she fed from the window in her cell. In her prison letters, in Turkey in 2015, Zehra Dogan related the same thing : how much she and her companions were attached to the birds that landed on the other side of the bars. In less than a week, I will be at my friend’s place near Saumur , she who was Zehra’s main correspondent and the organizer of the campaign for her support. Looking forward.
I have sung that all my life. Since I got the long playing when I was 13. And it works. At least for me in the moment. And since the moment is all one has.
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You mean I was 9 when I heard this ??? (This is like discovering my brain is really a combination overstuffed attic, basement and garage !) 😮
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