Jean-Claude Boyrie (part 2) New .
Shadows only die twice. (continued)
We was not our onion, we did what we could for these people. Just when we survivors were dismissed when they are gone! After liberation, it was the Americans who settled in Rivesaltes, for some years now the places are in the state where the GIs left behind. A hundred acres fallow, a total not far from the motorway exit Perpignan Nord. Inevitably, this land will generate envy. The hotel zone and business needs expand. The proposed "memorial" does in fact only a small way, the rest may one day or another return to the vine or promoters.
Younger generations get an idea very relative "Duty of memory". Facts sixty years old or more related "to those before," people now dead or senile. Come on! A little effort ... What were they, your parents or grandparents, rather, at that time? No idea! And you, what would you have done for them? Funny question! C'mon, this had no chance to reproduce the same now. It is vaguely question, of course, by this, and there, illegal workers, of being undocumented deported. Sangatte, you heard? It is a resort of Pas-de-Calais, 1400 inhabitants permanent. Over a population of 5000 "illegal" blocked at Sangatte after a long journey. Roughly the size of Rivesaltes in forty.
Yes, it's chaos at the millennium: a lot of people crowded there, entered France not to stay, we did not want it, but hoping to move across the Channel. It was quickly quell the scandal. The local prefect decided the final closure of the camp in May 2003. God thank you, it's already ancient history.
Well, you will not believe me, NGOs have found a way of bitching! Whatever we do with asylum seekers, there is always criticized. Open camp: you expose yourself to any extravagant demand. Advise you to close it, you'll be accused of pushing these unfortunate vacuum. Come on! Get some reason, the France of 2007 can not accommodate all the miseries of the world!
Night of the Living Dead.
The day declines very fast, just very normal at the end of summer: it's almost the equinox, it is already nine o'clock or so. The time for that would not have included notice that the "memorial" is still in draft, although his visit is the official catalog of Heritage Days. What the visitor does not take offense too precarious of a home: it opens by the virtual, in the remaining panels are warning that the site is not secure for him to be careful where he walks! A light generator as well as badly dilapidated facilities. After all the fugitives who crossed the passes of the night had not Vallespir However, those taking real risks!
The eye takes in the dark, sees the graffiti covering the walls of huts, scattered exposures. Works often abstract, humble materials assembled by artists known and anonymous Unusual fragments of eternity. Music and speech, now. Partita for cello lament for human voice: sobs: accents plaintive strings intersect a poem in tribute to refugees. And then there is silence again. The darkness is peopled with ghosts. They are naked, without age, without identity, their only apparent attitude these virtual beings to humans. A moonbeam maketh their contours dressed with polyurethane, you know: These plastic bags are undesirable for the environment that no longer distributes this ground in supermarkets. The hand of the artist has made it a translucent skin is like moulting of an insect giant folds and wrinkles.
A zombie is lying on the concrete slab. Another character is prostrated in the corner of the room. Two smaller forms evoke the silhouettes of children playing with a tin can, ridiculous ball. Arms held out, as in elytra: the android vertically mounted on a wall, grabbed the bars of the window. He tries to call for help. In vain: no sound comes out of his mouth without a face, frozen in contemplation hallucinated. Behind the window, there is only emptiness, a void sidereal.
"In space, no one can hear you scream '(Alien)
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