Each day I receive a newsletter from the french writer Henri Gougaud in my mailbox. This week I have noted these words full of humanity. I will try to translate as best as I can...
Chaque semaine je reçois dans ma boîte aux lettres la newsletter de l'écrivain Henri Gougaud.
Cette semaine j'ai noté ce texte plein d'humanité...
"Indian people set two sorts of remembrances apart: the colds ones and the warm ones , which they call memories.The cold remembrances are made from data.They say what they know, nothing more. Who says two plus two equals four? A cold remembrance. Civilized people are devotees for this sort of remembrance.They cultivate them .They accumulate them.They know how to make out of them dangerous tools.
Primitives use them often, but they don't estimate them more than dead traces.They prefer the warm memories, the surviving moments from the past that we sometimes evoke and which come to us as they are, with their weight of pain or their quivering of joy, with their tears, their fragrance.
The head remembers, the senses have their memories. The body from top to bottom, from toes to hair is a village of memories. To fill this village with allies memories, so that the life will be well defended and served, this is for the indian school the best way to build a man.To clutter him up with unnecessary knowledge is to feed him with garbages." (Henri Gougaud, the seven feathers of the eagle)
Primitives use them often, but they don't estimate them more than dead traces.They prefer the warm memories, the surviving moments from the past that we sometimes evoke and which come to us as they are, with their weight of pain or their quivering of joy, with their tears, their fragrance.
The head remembers, the senses have their memories. The body from top to bottom, from toes to hair is a village of memories. To fill this village with allies memories, so that the life will be well defended and served, this is for the indian school the best way to build a man.To clutter him up with unnecessary knowledge is to feed him with garbages." (Henri Gougaud, the seven feathers of the eagle)
"Les Indiens distinguent deux sortes de souvenirs : les froids, et les chauds, qu’ils appellent mémoires. Les souvenirs froids sont faits d’informations. Ils disent ce qu’ils savent, rien de plus. Qui dit que deux et deux font quatre ? Un souvenir froid. Les civilisés ont la religion de ces sortes de souvenirs. Ils les cultivent. Ils les accumulent. Ils savent faire d’eux des outils redoutables. Les primitifs les utilisent volontiers, mais ne les estiment pas plus que des traces mortes. Ils préfèrent les mémoires chaudes, les instants survivants du passé qu’il nous arrive d’évoquer et qui viennent à nous comme ils sont, avec leur poids de douleurs ou leurs frémissements d’allégresse, avec leurs larmes, leurs parfums.
La tête se souvient, les sens ont des mémoires. Le corps, de haut en bas, des orteils aux cheveux, est un village de mémoires. Peupler ce village de mémoires alliées, afin que la vie soit bien défendue et servie, voilà selon l’école indienne la meilleure façon de construire un homme. L’encombrer de savoir inutile, de croque-mitaines, d’inquisiteurs, mère de Dieu ! C’est le nourrir d’ordures."
(Henri Gougaud, Les sept plumes de l’aigle)
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