ABSTRACT

And just as there are lost continents, so there are ages whose traces can be found, but which are dead, they don’t speak, they don’t tell us anything more. The species which used to live then have disappeared without saying a word, maybe they were deported to another planet. We think we’ve known them, seen them, but they have so few connections with today … We no longer find the words. Perhaps they are in another continuum of time, close to ours, but somewhere else … and not only have they disappeared, but it’s difficult, impossible to remember them … I’m talking about a living memory … Oh yes, I know, there are theories like that: spatio-temporal faults, but stop dreaming about your space-time, stop playing the poet, it’s useless … And stop worrying about the past, and for all that, stop worrying about the present too, is that clear?