Desséché [Le Partage est Mort]

À force de me faire répondre
par le silence
j'en suis arrivé
moi aussi
à ne plus avoir que ça
à offrir.

Deux exemples...

... qui plaident en faveur du postulat selon lequel on vit déjà dans une variété de "police state" (aux USA, du moins, et par extension ici aussi):

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/10/in-america-it-is-inc.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/10/ny-police-use-trick.html

Ça me fait penser au rêve de John Smith dans The New World: “We shall make a new start. Here there is good ground for all and no cost but one's labor. We shall build a true commonwealth, hard work and self-reliance our virtues. We shall have no landlords to rack us with high rents or extort the fruit of our labor. No man should stand above any other but all live under the same law. None shall eat up carelessly what his friends got worthily or steal away that which virtue has stored up. Men shall not make each other their spoil.”

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Une éllipse qui à mon sens n'est pas sans avoir un lien avec tout ça, un extrait d'entrevue avec Phil Elverum, le gars derrière le groupe Mount Eerie. Voici ce qu'il dit à propos de la région d'où il vient (Anacortes, dans l'état de Washington), en rapport avec la série Twin Peaks:

"Twin Peaks is all over the album. How does the television series fit into this project?

Well [pause] I like that show a lot. When it was on TV, I was [pause] 12, I think? Not quite old enough to stay up and watch it, but old enough to be aware of its existence and to see a few episodes. It really marked me. Living in a place that looked just like the TV show, it kind of I guess informed my own romantic view of the creepiness in the woods. Which has stayed with me and I guess become part of my whole aesthetic that I try to create, this idea of a dark presence in nature. For some reason that's interesting and beautiful to me. Also, when I'm traveling the world, that TV show is semi-popular. It's got a cult following everywhere. And being in some place like Poland and having someone say, "Oh yeah that place you're from, Anacortes, WA, is that near Twin Peaks?" [laughs] and just really loving that reference. It's a form of patriotism I think.

There's a long tradition of Washington being represented with this kind of darkness, artistically.

What else is in that tradition do you think? Do you mean Nirvana?

I think Nirvana definitely. A lot of the music produced from that part of the country has this tinge of sadness to it.

There is darkness up here. Not only physical darkness. I think it has--in some places at least--something to do with the fact that the cities and towns that are here are so relatively young. The most relatively young in the world actually. And then the native cultures that were here are kind of just swept under the rug, but they're still visible. You can tell something bad happened here. There were these thriving cities of native people here a hundred years ago, and now? Now there's a Costco and this unacknowledged darkness."