Monday, October 01, 2012
Flight
Cioran (1911-1995), De l'inconvénient d'être né (Paris: Gallimard, 1973), p. 199 (ellipsis in original):
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L'Empire craquait, les Barbares se déplaçaient...Que faire, sinon s’évader du siècle? Heureux temps où l’on avait où fuir, où les espaces solitaires étaient accessibles et accueillants! Nous avons été dépossédés de tout, même du désert.Translation by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born (New York: Seaver Books, 1976):
The Empire was falling, the Barbarians were on the move...What was to be done, except to escape the age? Happy moment, when there was still somewhere to go, when the empty places were accessible and welcoming! We have been dispossessed of everything, even the desert.Related post: Escape.
