Welcome to the Death Club
Extraits
BD tout public
Welcome to the Death Club
Vous avez été choisis, vous faites partie des rares élus, Winshluss vous invite à faire un tour dans son fameux Club de la Mort ! Fouillez dans votre poche, trouvez-y votre billet et lancez-vous dans les dédales de cette fête foraine macabre où l'effroi le dispute au sarcasme. Guidé au milieu des attractions par la grande faucheuse en personne, vous ricanerez en choeur des tableaux qu'elle fera apparaître devant vous, compilant les vanités et les rêves médiocres d'une humanité en sursis, obèse et pourrissante... Mais ce sera votre visage décomposé et grouillant de vers que vous croiserez au détour de la galerie des glaces ! Vous vous consolerez de voir que vos compagnons de train fantôme n'auront pas meilleure mine que vous, avatars disneyens ou pantins de série B rescapés d'un film de zombies projeté un soir de panne de climatisation dans un cinéma de Tijuana. Mais avant même de pouvoir échanger avec eux quelques phalanges, vous serez entraîné par votre amie jusqu'au grand huit, où vous apprécierez de ne plus avoir d'estomac. Pour vous remettre de vos émotions, la grande parade des horreurs vous montrera avec une précision "entomologistique" vos semblables bouffer, vivre et s'accoupler dans un grouillement de cafards. La Camarde, qui n'est guère plus qu'un exterminateur d'insectes, les réduira en bouffie pour votre seule distraction dans un bouquet d'éclaboussures ! Ne vous restera plus qu'à vous diriger avec elle vers la buvette où, devant un verre de mort aux rats, vous regarderez les néons s'éteindre et les portes du club se refermer, heureux d'avoir encore une bouche pour rire... et des yeux pour pleurer.
01/2010
Policiers
Welcome to the club. Vingt nouvelles électriques inspirées par les Thugs
Lee Thugs furent-ils le meilleur groupe d'ici ou le meilleur groupe du monde ? On n'a jamais su trancher. Une chose est néanmoins sûre, d'Angers à Seattle, de 1983 à 2008, toute personne les ayant croisés leur réserva illico une place dans son Top 5 éternel. Telle une illustration ad-hoc de la fameuse exception culturelle française, l'escouade sonique a fédéré autant qu'ignoré toutes les chapelles noisy, pour n'adopter qu'une voie, la sienne. Alors, rock'n'roll, alternatif, punk, hardcore, grunge, le reste n'est que littérature : un défi que les auteurs ici présents prennent au mot et relèvent haut la malades soupapes dans le rouge, le carburant dans le noir, et en sifflotant, évidemment. Jean-Luc Manet
12/2019
Littérature française
Welcome to Paris
Turgot est chauffeur de taxi, sa vie banale, petite-bourgeoise, va être bousculée par sa rencontre avec un couple d'Américains qu'il prend en charge un jour et qu'il ne quittera plus pendant une année. Eva et John sont beaux, brillants, artistes. Ils se prennent pour Turgot d'une affection de plus en plus ambiguë qui entraîne ce dernier dans une sorte de vie mondaine à laquelle, évidemment, rien ne le préparait. Il y fera la connaissance d'un baron néo-fasciste, d'une collectionneuse insatiable et de toute une théorie de personnages aussi torturés qu'énigmatiques. Chacun y trouvera son compte. Mais commençons par le début. Il neige et le captif, qui ne l'est pas encore, est posté derrière sa fenêtre...
12/1994
Shonen/garçon
Welcome to the ballroom Tome 6 . Edition collector
Qui sera la nouvelle partenaire de Tatara ? Décidé à progresser dans les règles de l'art, Tatara se reconcentre sur les bases de la danse. Il s'entraîne seul mais pour progresser, il a besoin de trouver une partenaire. Chinatsu Hiyama, sa camarade de classe, ne semble pus étrangère au milieu de lu danse... mais elle refuse de mettre les pieds sur la piste. Que cache donc son rejet ?
06/2023
Lectures graduées
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.
08/2021
12 ans et +
15 Ans, Welcome to England
Jess a un problème. Elle doit écrire une lettre à Edouard, son correspondant français qui va séjourner chez elle. Les choses seraient nettement plus faciles si Edouard était une fille. Le pire, c'est qu'elle doit joindre une photo ! Avec sa face de lune, au secours ! Mais Fred, le meilleur ami de Jess, devrait pouvoir l'aider... Quant à Edouard, sera-t-il à l'image du Français de ses rêves, " yeux noirs et lèvres boudeuses " ?
06/2008
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Don’t leave me
Jordan and Florence had made a promise never to part with each other, having managed to heal their past pains. Unfortunately, one day she will return to France, leaving Jordan, alone, in Boston. Their love, their carnal complicity in which they always found refuge and had fun in unusual places, cannot be ended on a whim. The death of a child, of a parent, suicide, disability, so many trials that will test their love, so that they admit they are nothing without the other. Will they succeed, knowing that when one is loved, one strength is increased tenfold when one encounters an obstacle ? Besides, distance is nothing when two people love each other so passionately, destiny is supposed to bring those who love each other together.
07/2022
Affirmation de soi
Vous êtes unique, montrez-le !
L'art de se raconter pour sortir du lot dans le monde professionnel. Pour postuler à un emploi, obtenir une promotion, lever des fonds, trouver des client·es, des partenaires... : au travail, on a tou·te·s besoin de parler de soi. Loin d'être une formalité, raconter la bonne histoire, au bon moment, avec les mots justes, c'est s'ouvrir aux plus belles opportunités, celles qui nous correspondent (vraiment). Développer son personal branding est alors l'occasion de se révéler. A travers nos prises de paroles, nos écrits, notre apparence, notre double digital... c'est notre image qui se dessine. Et il est grand temps d'en faire notre alliée ! Dans cet ouvrage, concocté par la rédaction de Welcome to the Jungle, vous trouverez : Des exercices pour mieux vous connaître et parler de vous avec authenticité ; Des techniques et des outils pour créer votre marque personnelle ; Les conseils des meilleur·e·s expert·e·s pour faire décoller votre carrière. Welcome to the Jungle est un média international engagé dans la promotion d'une approche plus humaine et plus positive du travail. Il informe, accompagne et inspire des millions de lecteur·trice·s pour les aider à s'accomplir dans le monde du travail moderne.
06/2022
Histoire internationale
One Artist on Five Continents
Elisabet Delbrück (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. She was at first forbidden to leave and then chose to remain in Wellington. Her thirty years in Mahina Bay on Wellington harbour had a profound effect on all who knew her. This study aims to discover why she was so remarkable. It explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist. She turned this into a profession, teaching and exhibiting on five continents in the 1920s and 1930s. She always travelled alone, observing the customs and beliefs of the people she met. In Australia and New Zealand in 1938 and 1939 she was wrongly suspected of spreading Nazi propaganda. Her story is also the story of a heroic group of Wellingtonians who helped her in the 1940s and valued her friendship till her death.
12/2011
Littérature érotique et sentim
Love to death. Tome 1
A dix-huit ans, Mila n'a qu'un seul rêve, qu'une seule obsession, se faire aimer d'Andreas, le frère ainé de son meilleur ami Lucas, et d'un jour l'épouser. Andreas, vingt-deux ans, aime la vie et tous ses plaisirs. Il collectionne les aventures comme d'autres les timbres. Lorsqu'il rentre pour les vacances, les choses s'accélèrent Si jusque-là , Mila n'a jamais réellement attisé son désir, il se rend compte qu'elle l'attire irrésistiblement. Pourtant, il n'a de cesse de lui briser le coeur. Mila sera-t-elle prête à tout accepter pour arriver à ses fins ? Andreas pourra-t-il réellement changer ? Entre déceptions et trahisons, pourront-ils voir leur amour triompher ?
12/2017
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Philosophie
Agencies of the Good in the Work of Iris Murdoch
In part one Iris Murdoch's work is set against its contemporary background. Her concept of Man, as seen both in her fiction and in her philosophical work, is discussed with special attention being paid to the influence of Plato, J.P. Sartre, Simone Weil, Gabriel Marcel and the linguistic philosophers. Murdoch's views on the Good, and on Love, Death and Art, her main agencies of the Good, are then dealt with in greater detail. In part two five novels, which are representative of her literary output, are examined in greater depth.
10/1991
Non classé
Ruling Class Men
What is it like to be a master of the universe ? The authors have researched the desires and fears of the world's most powerful men. The Murdochs, Packers, Kennedys, Agnellis and other men like them, directly determine the fates of thousands and influence the future of the world like no other people. Described as ‘sacred monsters' by one of their own, they are carefully created to be what they are and to enjoy shaping the world in their own likeness. To learn about these often reclusive men, the authors extended the life-history technique to interrogate autobiographies, diaries and biographies and have created a composite picture, a collective portrait, of tycoons over three generations. The book carefully explores the childhoods, schooling, work and play, sexual activities, marriages and deaths of the wealthiest men who have ever lived. It exposes the nature of ruling-class masculinity itself.
02/2007
Critique littéraire
The failed infanticide
Simply go through the pages of this piece of work and discover in all sincerity the story of a life, full of philosophy. It all started from the denial of a pregnancy in 1974 and the desire to share the course of my life. I confide in you today a piece of my story. I am sharing with you what I have lived so as to show you that a birth near death is not a fatality, if you walk with a determined step by converting your suffering into strength and courage, in order to be able to live and expand yourself.
05/2014
Sciences de la terre et de la
Theoretical Astrophysics. Volume 1, Astrophysical Processes
Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and cosmology need a solid understanding of a wide range of physical processes. This clear and authoritative textbook has been designed to help them to develop the necessary toolkit of theory. Assuming only an undergraduate background in physics and no detailed knowledge of astronomy, this book guides the reader step by step through a comprehensive collection of fundamental theoretical topics. The book is modular in design, allowing the reader to pick and chose a selection of chapters, if necessary. It can be used alone, or in conjunction with the forthcoming accompanying two volumes (covering stars and stellar systems, and galaxies and cosmology, respectively). After reviewing the basics of dynamics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics, the book carefully develops a solid understanding of all the key concepts such as radiative processes, spectra, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and MHD, dynamics of gravitating systems, general relativity, and nuclear physics. Each topic is developed methodically from undergraduate basic physics. Throughout, the reader's understanding is developed and tested with carefully structured problems and helpful hints. This welcome volume provides graduate students with an indispensable introduction to and reference on all the physical processes they will need to successfully tackle cutting-edge research in astrophysics and cosmology.
01/2000
Littérature française
What Pig Are You Feeding?
Hello and welcome to this nice journey, More than anything I want the journey to show how easy and sane humor & fun are, they very often give us relief from the burden of Blessedness and Ugliness. We should laugh at the absurdity of it all. I'm afraid this book does not offer concrete solutions. However, I'm quite sure these nice reflections would help you spotting amazing cases and strange situations whenever you want to laugh at everything, whenever you want some relief, whenever you want humor... It's always worthwhile to wear a smile. All the best SalmaMichele
10/2016
Anglais apprentissage
THE CANTERBURY TALES. Avec cassette audio
'In April when the sweet showers fall... then people want to go on pilgrimages.'
A group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knight tells a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales end with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are generous to one another, we can find the perfect society.
A selection of stories from Chaucer's masterpiece depicting life in fourteenth century England is presented here in modern English. There is a wide range of activities and special informative sections on Chaucer and his times. The accompanying cassette contains the complete story and the extra listening activities.
06/1999
Lecture 6-9 ans
L'énigme du sabre. Edition bilingue français-anglais
C'est dimanche et comme souvent Louise et Arthur viennent rendre visite à leur grand-mère. Ils aiment bien y aller, elle joue avec eux et leur raconte plein d'histoires. Mais aujourd'hui, elle n'a pas le temps et les deux cousins s'ennuient. Alors, ils décident de grimper dans le grenier où sont entreposés de vieux souvenirs et objets abandonnés. Ils y ont déjà été, mais maintenant ils sont plus grands et peut-être trouveront-ils un trésor qu'ils n'avaient pas aperçu, lors de la dernière visite. Après un long moment de recherche, dans un coin, Louise découvre une malle poussiéreuse. Les deux cousins, l'ouvrent et entrevoient un sabre avec une inscription. Une trouvaille qui va les mener jusqu'à l'école militaire de Saint Cyr de Coëtquidan, sur les traces de leur grand père. It's a Sunday and often as not, Louise and Arthur go and visit their grandmother. They like to go there, she plays with them and tells them lots of stories. But this Sunday she does not have the time, so the two cousins are bored. They decide to climb up into the attic, where old memorabilia and abandoned objects are stored. They have been there before, but now that they are taller, maybe they will find a treasure they did not see during their last visit. After a long moment of searching, in a corner, Louise discovers a dusty trunk. The two cousins open it and see a sword with an inscription. A discovery that will lead them to the military school at Saint Cyr de Coëtquidan, in the footsteps of their grandfather.
06/2018
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
Instruments de musique
Ten Songs for Cello and Piano
These ten arrangements are a welcome addition to Rachmaninoff's small but significant output of original works for cello and piano. Klaus Simon comments that Rachmaninoff's songs are some of the most beautiful in the whole repertoire and especially suitable for cello. The instrument's sound is so flexible and beautiful for melody, and with its warm sound and potential for intense vibrato and tasteful portamenti it is ideally suited to the task. The order of this edition is a suggestion by the arranger which has worked very well in concerts ; performers should feel free to choose their own combination. Instrumentation : cello and piano
05/2023
Antiquité - Généralités
The Italians on Delos
During the second century and into the early first century BC, the island of Delos was home to the largest port of transit in the eastern Mediterranean. As such, it welcomed many Italian traders who prospered among its cosmopolitan population for some fifty or so years. The many buildings, statues, paintings and inscriptions unearthed since 1873 by the French School at Athens have made it possible to trace out the life of this disparate yet influential community.
11/2021
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so.
Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to
acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways.
Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.
01/2000
Autres éditeurs (K à O)
The Stained Club
Finn, un petit garçon aux taches colorées sur la peau, va rencontrer une bande de copains eux aussi couverts de taches, bien que différentes des siennes. Ensemble, ils vont former le Club des tachés. Ensemble, ils vont comprendre que chaque tache est différente, mais qu'elle n'en n'est pas moins douloureuse.
02/2023
BD tout public
I am GooGol - The Great Invasion
Their arrival was heralded as a new beginning for the human race. Humans were no longer alone in the cosmos. Instead, they were suddenly thrust into an arena much larger than they were ready to deal with. In an age of technological advancement, Toughware and the wiki implants were the culmination of the first successful blending of human and alien technology. Suddenly, anyone with a wiki implant could ride the data streams. Hackers became celebrities as the neural landscape became the world's playground. And for a special few, a startling side effect was discovered. Fearing the worst, the Lambda Initiative was created to police wiki infractions and to protect the fabled Lambda Time Travel Restrictions. Anyone, human or alien, attempting to bypass the Lambda Protocols was subject to prosecution under this new law. To enforce this law, the G-Men were created. Culled from specialists with military and law enforcement experience, the G-Men sought out Lambda Protocol violators with swift and violent response. With wiki crimes on the rise and a growing anti-alien movement gaining strength, something had to be done. The government needed a solution, but they weren't sure what to do. And then they discovered a teenage girl living in Brazil with a special affinity for traversing and moulding the data stream. They had discovered the first Googol. And the world was about to change.
12/2010
Sciences de la terre et de la
SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS. Worlds in their own right, Second Edition
"Rothery does an excellent job of synthesizing the research inspired by the Voyager missions into a coherent description of outer solar system geology." -Jonathan I. Lunine, Sky & Telescope
"A highly readable, respectably accurate and complete nontechnical summary of planetary satellites for general and scientific audiences."
-Paul M. Schenk, Icarus
"Rothery brings these satellites to life."
-David Hughes, New Scientist.
"The depth and authority of the treatment of physical geological processes makes this a good introduction to the outer satellites for undergraduate students, while the clarity of the text ensures that things do not become too complicated for less expert readers."
-Lionel Wilson, Times Higher Eduation Supplement.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of this acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up color and black-and-white images from both the 1995-1999 Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Voyager space probe. Rothery explains the geological aspects of the major satellites of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune and the Pluto-Charon system. In particular he shows how tectonic and volcanic processes, driven by heat from within, have shaped the rigid outer layers of these worlds. Rothery also discusses the similarities and differences among them and the ways in which they resemble Earth-like planets.
01/1999
Manga
Bleach Tome 74 : The Death and the Strawberry
Un homme se bat pour des liens qu'il veut sauvegarder... Ayant gravé tous les sentiments qui le lient à ses amis dans son sabre, Ichigo se lance dans son ultime duel contre Yhwach ! Le conflit qui dure depuis mille ans entre shinigamis et Quincy va trouver son issue... L'émotion est à son comble dans cet ultime tome de Bleach.
09/2017
Non classé
From Scarcity to Sustainability
For futures studies and environmentalism the late 1960s and early 1970s were a heyday period of great publicity, and much scientific interest was devoted to them. The study 'Limits to Growth', commissioned by the Club of Rome, has played an important role for the further advancement of these fascinating fields. Each of them in its own way deals with the long term prospects of humankind and desirable future paths of humanity and the globe. This investigation illustrates a very important phase in the development of these two areas and writes a history of ideas and a history of impact of the Limits to Growth debate and other activities of the Club of Rome. It includes information that has so far only been known to a very limited number of directly involved individuals and looks into very recent stages of the sustainable development debate and newest developments of more pragmatic and critical futures studies. For the purpose of this study some 100 interviews have been made worldwide with very well known and often influential individuals. Among them are : Sicco Mansholt, Alexander King, Jan Tinbergen, Robert Jungk, Saburo Okita, Lord Kennet, Johan Galtung, Barry Commoner and Philip de Seynes.
12/1991
Littérature française
Welcome to LH Airport. Les coulisses d'un quotidien
"Deux mois plus tard, le stage se terminait déjà. Je tenais mon destin entre mes mains ! Et là, comme une évidence, une carrière dans l'aéronautique s'imposa naturellement. A cet instant, ce n'était pas précis dans ma tête, mais tel un appel qu'il ne fallait pas ignorer, une opportunité qu'il ne fallait pas laisser passer, la perspective d'un défi à relever, il n'était pas question de quitter ce monde aussi nouveau qu'inconnu". Lorsque, par le plus grand des hasards, Cassandre atterrit dans un aéroport pour un stage d'été, c'est une révélation. Autodidacte, résiliente et passionnée, une carrière dans l'aviation s'ouvre à elle. Baptisée "Charlie", elle deviendra le premier chef d'escale "femme" en France. Avec malice et légèreté, Charlie nous entraîne dans les coulisses d'un aéroport de province. Des péripéties d'une vie quotidienne aux indiscrétions des personnalités qui se croisent dans les couloirs, découvrez le témoignage romancé d'une femme qui a su s'élever dans un milieu d'hommes au coeur des années 80 ! We wish you a very pleasant flight ! Chef d'escale et responsable d'exploitation d'un aéroport régional, Béatrice Carpentier nous fait découvrir dans ce récit authentique, les coulisses de son métier à travers les parcours entremêlés du personnel et des passagers.
12/2019
Photographie
Welcome to Birdhead World Again. Edition français-anglais-italien
Birdhead, duo d'artistes basé à Shanghai, conçoit une photographie expérimentale qui associe approche documentaire et techniques mixtes, principalement à travers le collage. Cette publication est le journal de bord de leur voyage en Italie, accompagné d'un essai de l'historien de l'art Maurizio Bortolotti.
04/2018
Non classé
Read Ancient African scripts from any current African language. Volume 2
The son of Douaouf, the brilliant, scribe of the early XIIth Dynasty Xty " Khety " said this : "The man continues to subsist after reaching the haven of death and his actions are beside him in a heap. " If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation of Africa and its tails the perceptibles consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably involves the constitution of a pan-African State. For men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a common language. The unification of Africa will only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification issue. To a lesser extent but like Cheikh Anta Diop in his book titled the Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only the true knowledge of the past can maintain the consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in line with its past. Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my sureness on the legitimate idea that a people who lost a significant part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past in every possible way. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called old languages. But a people can not live only with by merely repeating of what others tell them about themselves. The investigation through its linguistic past allows especially a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it allows also to become aware by an introspective and therefore reflective of its real abilities and strengths. It structures being and the consciousness of being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology. This quest for the past, not founded on blind passion but objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for a real universalism. To know one's past is already to project one's future. To know one's past is to give oneself the capacity to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. To know one's past is to refuse intellectual guardianship and wait-and-seeism. To know one's past is to be reborn.
05/2020
