Les Fleurys
7-31-59

       Thank God men [(man)] (1) do not find themselves [during their lives on earth] solely surrounded by men. Thank God, man is not alone in the world.
       Man is surrounded by a landscape (language) and a more varied society (infinitely varied): a society of animals. Thus he has the feeling of breathing [and of moving around] in a larger space, thus he can see numerous qualities and there's no question that he'll ever appropriate all of them.
       That's a requirement for him. (2)
       Thus may he hope to provide himself with sustenance (hold himself in a state of suspension, equilibrium) in a crowded environ [(dense)] and voluminous (morally and physically) which sustains him. (3)
       He is not reduced to himself.
       (Even a prisoner can have, thank God, a couple of fleas, louses, flies, gnats, spiders).
       (4) It's not only a question of company [but, for ex. of game] (of non-solitude) it's a question of space [to cover] and of matter to inform and of possible movements of independent lives, [other lives,] to contemplate, to protect or [to fight against] to assassinate (at will), that is to say, a field of vision, of observation and action whose exploitation (acting upon it) gives meaning to his life [constitutes his life].

       1. Crossed out.
       2. He provides himself with a spectacle (cinema) of surprise, of an elan which goes further than himself, of flight, etc., etc.
       3. A milieu always separated (from him, and there isn't any chance he'll exhaust it) (whether he understands it or exhaust it).
       4. (in the margin) dependent system of wheels and upon which depends a quantity of other wheels.

 

 

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