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Chedid's Creative Process | ||||||||
-VII- (First Version) | ||||||||
L'homme Touche le sol Avant d'y prendre route Tâtonne Interroge Les silences et le bruit Avant sa marche oblique Vers l'enigme Leur fureur Leur bienfait |
Man Touches the earth Before going on his way Gropes Questions Silences and noise Before his oblique march Toward the enigma of things Their fury Their goodness |
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The first version of this poem, ten lines without stanzas, is handwritten with strong black strokes made with a black felt-tip pen and dated "17/1/94" (17 January 94). Chedid once remarked to me that she preferred the bold strokes produced by writing with a black felt-tip pen. By way of explanation, she recalled her penmanship classes at boarding school, and how she dreaded being forced to write with an ink pen that created thin lines. |
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