Part Three, Chapter 18

Από το Life is Elsewhere, του Milan Kundera.

(This is something that could never have happened to Xavier, because Xavier has no mother, and no father either, and not having parents is the first precondition of freedom.

But please understand, it’s not a matter of losing one’s parents. Gerard de Nerval’s mother died when he was a newborn, and yet he lived his whole life under the hypnotic gaze of her wonderful eyes.

Freedom does not begin where parents are rejected or buried, but where they do not exist:

Where man is brought into the world without knowing by whom.

Where man is brought into the world by an egg thrown into a forest.

Where man is spat out on the ground by the sky and puts his feet on the world without feeling gratitude.)

1 Response to “Part Three, Chapter 18”


  1. 1 Sophia Jul 5th, 2006 at 4:58 am

    para poli endiaferon ka para poli omorfo

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