The world began without the human race,
and will end without it.
Will it ever get beyond first base?
Like Lévi-Strauss, I doubt it.
Inspired by a line from “Tristes Tropiques, ” by Claude Lévi-Strauss whom J.M.G. Le Clézio described in the NYT on November 8 as “probably the last French Philosopher”: “The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it.”
11/8/09
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
''and will end without it.'' 10