Saturday, September 29, 2018
Big Words
Paul Valéry (1871-1945), Collected Works, Vol. 14: Analects, tr. Stuart Gilbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), p. 606:
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Those big words, the Infinite, the Absolute, Nature, are the papier-mâché weights that the literary Hercules lifts, waves in the air, puts down again.
Les grands mots: l'infini, l'absolu, la Nature... Ce sont les poids en carton que soulève, brandit et repose l'Hercule littéraire.
