TO DISCRIMINATE Poem by Claude Royet-Journoud

The whole of poetry is preposition.

It's only with your foot on the core of the tightrope
that the narrative unfolds. Before that, there are only
fragments of sense and you see nothing of what ties
the plot together.

Voice is no help in constructing a framework. It
dissolves the whole, makes it fragile, and retains only
appearance.

Accidents are essential. They are what give form and
readability.

"They speak to the ear, I wish to speak to the memory."
(Joseph Joubert.)

Too much sense reduces the line to ashes.

In the hollows of language. Never in its fullness.

("Je" is all the more present in Les natures indivisibles as
in La notion d'obstacle this pronoun is totally absent.)

Importance of the back.

A book is not a property. Whose property is a body?

"My science can only be a science point by point.
I have neither time nor means to trace a continuous
line." (Marcel Jousse.)

The body is not a subject; that's why . . .