Status Updates From Le grand voyage

“I stop for a moment and listen to the forest. We ought to pause more often, take more time to listen to the forest. Whole centuries of my life have gone by without my being able to listen to the forest. I stop and listen. That dull paralyzing joy takes root in the certainty of the absolute contingency of my presence here, of my radical uselessness. I’m not necessary for this rustling forest to exist[…]”

“For sixteen years I’ve tried to forget this voyage, and I did forget this voyage. No one around me thinks any more about my having made this voyage. But the fact is that I forgot this voyage while realizing full well that I would one day have to take it again.”

“Entonces pensé que iba a alcanzar a esta mujer, que se volvería hacia mí, y que era preciso que me hablara. Sencillamente, era preciso que me hiciera esa pregunta que la atormentaba”.

“Nunca se es libre para ir a donde se quiere”.

Nunca se es libre para ir a donde se quiere.