15 juillet 2004 05:35
A journey through the desert
Isabelle Hontebeyrie
I have always believed that God (or anything resembling It) lies in the sands of the desert.
These pictures, taken by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, are from his book The Earth from Above. I have added quotes from Frank Herbert's Dune series.
Enjoy...
There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsgogen" - which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
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