Avant notre ren\u00adcontre, j\u2019avais consa\u00adcr\u00e9 ma vie \u00e0 l\u2019id\u00e9e de Wittgenstein selon laquelle l\u2019inexpressible est conte\u00adnu \u2013 d\u2019une mani\u00e8re inex\u00adpres\u00adsible ! \u2013 dans l\u2019exprim\u00e9. Cette id\u00e9e se voit accor\u00adder moins de temps d\u2019antenne que le plus d\u00e9f\u00e9\u00adrent Ce dont on ne peut par\u00adler, il faut le taire<\/em>, mais c\u2019est, je crois, l\u2019id\u00e9e plus pro\u00adfonde. Le para\u00addoxe qu\u2019elle d\u00e9signe repr\u00e9\u00adsente lit\u00adt\u00e9\u00adra\u00adle\u00adment ce pour\u00adquoi j\u2019\u00e9cris<\/em>, ou ce pour\u00adquoi je me sens capable de conti\u00adnuer \u00e0 \u00e9crire.<\/p>\n

Et ce, parce que \u00e7a ne nour\u00adrit pas, parce que \u00e7a n\u2019exalte pas le sen\u00adti\u00adment d\u2019angoisse qu\u2019on peut res\u00adsen\u00adtir devant l\u2019incapacit\u00e9 \u00e0 expri\u00admer, \u00e0 l\u2019aide des mots, ce qui leur \u00e9chappe. \u00c7a ne rejette pas ce qui est dit au nom de ce qui, par d\u00e9fi\u00adni\u00adtion, ne peut pas l\u2019\u00eatre. Pas plus que \u00e7a ne se la joue, comme on pr\u00e9\u00adtex\u00adte\u00adrait, la gorge nou\u00e9e : J\u2019te dis pas tout ce que je dirais si les mots suf\u00adfi\u00adsaient.<\/em> Les mots suffisent.<\/p>\n

Il est vain de bl\u00e2\u00admer le filet d\u2019avoir des trous<\/em>, note mon encyclop\u00e9die.<\/p>\n

L\u2019objectif est d\u2019avoir et<\/em> l\u2019\u00e9glise vide avec un plan\u00adcher de terre bat\u00adtue, mais bien propre, et<\/em> les vitraux spec\u00adta\u00adcu\u00adlaires qui brillent sous le toit de la cath\u00e9\u00addrale. Non, rien que tu puisses dire ne \u00adfucke\u00adrait l\u2019espace r\u00e9ser\u00adv\u00e9 \u00e0 Dieu. J\u2019ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 expli\u00adqu\u00e9 \u00e7a ailleurs. Mais j\u2019essaie de dire quelque chose de dif\u00adf\u00e9\u00adrent maintenant.<\/p>\n

J\u2019ai appris tr\u00e8s vite que toi, tu avais pour ta part consa\u00adcr\u00e9 ta vie \u00e0 la convic\u00adtion que les mots ne suf\u00adfisent pas<\/em>. Pas seule\u00adment qu\u2019ils ne suf\u00adfisent pas, mais qu\u2019ils sont cor\u00adro\u00adsifs pour tout ce qui est bon, tout ce qui est r\u00e9el, tout ce qui par\u00adti\u00adcipe au grand flux. Nous nous sommes dis\u00adpu\u00adt\u00e9s sans fin \u00e0 ce pro\u00adpos, pleins de fi\u00e8vre, sans malice. Une fois qu\u2019une chose est nom\u00adm\u00e9e, as-tu dit, nous ne pou\u00advons plus la voir de la m\u00eame fa\u00e7on. Tout ce qui n\u2019en a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 dit se fane, se perd, est assas\u00adsi\u00adn\u00e9. Tu appe\u00adlais \u00e7a la fonc\u00adtion emporte-pi\u00e8ce de nos esprits. Tu disais que tu savais \u00e7a non pas \u00e0 force d\u2019avoir fui le lan\u00adgage, mais parce que tu t\u2019y \u00e9tais immer\u00adg\u00e9, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cran, dans la conver\u00adsa\u00adtion, sur la sc\u00e8ne, dans les livres. Je secon\u00addais la posi\u00adtion de Thomas Jefferson sur les \u00e9glises \u2013 pour la pl\u00e9\u00adthore, pour les tran\u00adsi\u00adtions kal\u00e9i\u00addo\u00adsco\u00adpiques, pour l\u2019exc\u00e8s. J\u2019insistais : les mots font plus que nom\u00admer. Je t\u2019ai lu tout haut l\u2019ouverture des Recherches phi\u00adlo\u00adso\u00adphiques<\/em>. Je criais : Dalle, dalle !<\/em><\/p>\n

Pendant un cer\u00adtain temps, j\u2019ai cru que j\u2019avais gagn\u00e9. Tu avais conc\u00e9\u00add\u00e9 qu\u2019il y avait peut-\u00eatre un humain cor\u00adrect, un ani\u00admal humain cor\u00adrect, m\u00eame si l\u2019animal humain uti\u00adli\u00adsait le lan\u00adgage, m\u00eame si son uti\u00adli\u00adsa\u00adtion du lan\u00adgage d\u00e9fi\u00adnis\u00adsait en par\u00adtie son huma\u00adni\u00adt\u00e9 \u2013 m\u00eame si l\u2019humanit\u00e9 en soi signi\u00adfiait d\u00e9truire et br\u00fb\u00adler toute notre pla\u00adn\u00e8te bigar\u00adr\u00e9e et pr\u00e9\u00adcieuse, avec son futur, notre futur.<\/p>\n

Mais j\u2019ai chan\u00adg\u00e9 aus\u00adsi. Je me suis trou\u00adv\u00e9 un nou\u00adveau point de vue sur les choses indi\u00adcibles, ou au moins sur les choses dont l\u2019essence est oscil\u00adla\u00adtion, flux. J\u2019ai admis \u00e0 nou\u00adveau la tris\u00adtesse de notre extinc\u00adtion in\u00e9\u00adluc\u00adtable et l\u2019injustice de l\u2019extinction for\u00adc\u00e9e des autres. J\u2019ai arr\u00ea\u00adt\u00e9 de r\u00e9p\u00e9\u00adter avec suf\u00adfi\u00adsance : Absolument tout ce qui peut \u00eatre pen\u00ads\u00e9 peut \u00eatre expri\u00adm\u00e9 clai\u00adre\u00adment<\/em>, et j\u2019ai recom\u00admen\u00adc\u00e9 \u00e0 me deman\u00adder, est-ce que tout peut \u00eatre pens\u00e9 ?<\/p>\n

Before we met, I had spent a life\u00adtime devo\u00adted to Wittgenstein\u2019s idea that the inex\u00adpres\u00adsible is contained\u2014inexpressibly!\u2014in the expres\u00adsed. This idea gets less air time than his more reve\u00adren\u00adtial Whereof one can\u00adnot speak the\u00adreof one must be silent<\/em>, but it is, I think, the dee\u00adper idea. Its para\u00addox is, quite lite\u00adral\u00adly, why I write<\/em>, or how I feel able to keep writing.
\nFor it doesn\u2019t feed or exalt any ang\u00adst one may feel about the inca\u00adpa\u00adci\u00adty to express, in words, that which eludes them. It doesn\u2019t punish what can be said for what, by defi\u00adni\u00adtion, it can\u00adnot be. Nor does it ham it up by miming a constric\u00adted throat : Lo, what I would say, were words good enough<\/em>. Words are good enough.It is idle to fault a net for having holes<\/em>, my ency\u00adclo\u00adpe\u00addia notes.
\nIn this way you can have your emp\u00adty church with a dirt floor swept clean of dirt and your spec\u00adta\u00adcu\u00adlar stai\u00adned glass glea\u00adming by the cathe\u00addral raf\u00adters, both. Because nothing you say can fuck up the space for God.
\nI\u2019ve explai\u00adned this elsew\u00adhere. But I\u2019m trying to say some\u00adthing dif\u00adferent now.
\nBefore long I lear\u00adned that you had spent a life\u00adtime equal\u00adly devo\u00adted to the convic\u00adtion that words are not<\/em> good enough. Not only not good enough, but cor\u00adro\u00adsive to all that is good, all that is real, all that is flow. We argued and argued on this account, full of fever, not malice. Once we name some\u00adthing, you said, we can never see it the same way again. All that is unna\u00admeable falls away, gets lost, is mur\u00adde\u00adred. You cal\u00adled this the cookie-cut\u00adter func\u00adtion of our minds. You said that you knew this not from shun\u00adning lan\u00adguage but from immer\u00adsion in it, on the screen, in conver\u00adsa\u00adtion, ons\u00adtage, on the page. I argued along the lines of Thomas Jefferson and the churches\u2014for ple\u00adtho\u00adra, for kalei\u00addo\u00adsco\u00adpic shif\u00adting, for excess. I insis\u00adted that words did more than nomi\u00adnate. I read aloud to you the ope\u00adning of Philosophical Investigations. Slab<\/em>, I shou\u00adted, slab !<\/em>
\nFor a time, I thought I had won. You conce\u00added there might be an OK human, an OK human ani\u00admal, even if that human ani\u00admal used lan\u00adguage, even if its use of lan\u00adguage were some\u00adhow defi\u00adning of its humanness\u2014even if human\u00adness itself meant tra\u00adshing and tor\u00adching the whole mot\u00adley, pre\u00adcious pla\u00adnet, along with its, our, future.
\nBut I chan\u00adged too. I loo\u00adked anew at unna\u00admeable things, or at least things whose essence is fli\u00adcker, flow. I read\u00admit\u00adted the sad\u00adness of our even\u00adtual extinc\u00adtion, and the injus\u00adtice of our extinc\u00adtion of others. I stop\u00adped smu\u00adgly repea\u00adting Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clear\u00adly<\/em> and won\u00adde\u00adred anew, can eve\u00adry\u00adthing be thought.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Avant notre ren\u00adcontre, j\u2019avais consa\u00adcr\u00e9 ma vie \u00e0 l\u2019id\u00e9e de Wittgenstein selon laquelle l\u2019inexpressible est conte\u00adnu \u2013 d\u2019une mani\u00e8re inex\u00adpres\u00adsible ! \u2013 dans l\u2019exprim\u00e9. Cette id\u00e9e se voit accor\u00adder moins de temps d\u2019antenne que le plus d\u00e9f\u00e9\u00adrent Ce dont on ne peut par\u00adler, il faut le taire, mais c\u2019est, je crois, l\u2019id\u00e9e plus pro\u00adfonde. Le paradoxe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2739,1225],"class_list":["post-20247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-indicible","tag-wittgenstein","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21912,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions\/21912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}