ABSTRACT
So, what do you want me to say, I had a premonition of something nasty in it, like a word, or a worm, a piece of worm which would be a piece of word, and which would seek to reconstitute itself, slithering, something tainted which poisons life. And suddenly, precisely there, only there, I started to lose my hair, no, to lose some hair which was not necessarily mine, perhaps yours. I was trying to keep it by making knots which, one after the other, came undone only to re-form themselves further on. I felt, from a distance and confusedly, that I was searching for a word, perhaps a proper name (for example Claude, but I do not know why I choose this example right now, I do not remember his presence in my dream). Rather it was the term which was searching for me, it had the initiative, according to me, and was doing its best to collect itself by every means, for a period of time which I could not measure, all night perhaps, and even more, or else an hour or three minutes, impossible to know, but is it a question here of knowing? The time of this word remains, does it not, especially if it were a proper name, without comparison with everything which might surround it. The word was taking its time, and by dint of following it you ask me, I ask myself: where is this leading us, towards what place? We are absolutely unable to know, forecast [prévoir], /foresee, foretell, fortune-tell/. 2 Impossible anticipation, it is always from there that I have addressed myself to you and you have never accepted it. 497You would accept it more patiently if something wasn’t telling us, behind our backs [par derrière] and in order to subject us there, that this place, it, knows us, forecasts our coming, predicts us, us, according to its code [chiffre]. Suppose that an anachronism which resembles no other unwedges [décale] us, it lifts or displaces the blocks [les cales], brakes or accelerates as if we were late with respect to that which has already happened to us in the future, /the one which foresees us/ and by which I sense us predicted, anticipated, snapped up, called, summoned from a single casting, a single coming. Called, you hear? you hear this word in several languages? I was trying to explain it to him [or her], to translate it to him the other day, at his first smile I interrupted
