"From Word to Archipelago/ De parole en Archipel, is one of the "FIat Lux" Arcana , itslef from the Composite Memories Magnum Opus.
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"Difference of meaning can create islands"
Jean-Francois Lyotard
These three images within: the airliner, the archipelago and the lips are islands. The Ocean and its horizon line defining the edge of the planet and the distant sun at the horizon is also an island lost in the immensity of the Cosmos. The lips, (my own in this image,) utter silent words, "insular iterations" that you may imagine them saying.
"The island is an ambivalent space, as well as an enclosure, and infinite opening on the horizon; it is a metaphor that let us imagine "interiority", a singular organization of what is "said".
In Rene Char "The Word in the Archipelago,"-*1 the island is the part that is never realized , the part that is forever slumbering within us, from where it will spring tomorrow as a" multiple". The Island is a device where a voice will originate in order to become. The island, more than any other place, is defined by its limits, and a relationship with an "out-of-place" that can take different forms including that of "elsewhere". The island metaphor is first and foremost an imaginary space constructed by its enunciation: it represents both what it is and what it fails to name." -*2
*1)-The title "De Parole en Archipel," (from Word to Archipelago,)-2 is a variation on Rene Char's title: "Parole en Archipel."-*1 (The Word in the Archipelago .)
*2)- Electronic reference : Lionel VERDIER, «All islands are secret: notes on some island metaphors in contemporary poetry (Saint-John Perse, Jean-Claude Renard, Jean Laude, Yves Bonnefoy, Lorand , Benoit Conort)», Transtext (e) s Transcultures跨 文本 跨 文化 [Online], Occasional | 2008, Online 14 September 2009, accessed 20 July 2018. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/230; DOI: 10.4000 / transepts.230
Translation: JFP 07-2018