it is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain ; I could not, I cannot believe this ; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do not weep), that is all. for the rest, everything has remained motionless. for what I have lost is not a FIGURE (the Mother), but a BEING ; and not a BEING, but a QUALITY (a soul) : not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable (barthes)
hence
- carnation
- corduroy
