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Extracts from Stones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Roger Caillois
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I speak of stones that have always lain out in the open or sleep in their lair and the dark night of the seam. They hold no interest for the archaeologist, artist or diamond-cutter. No one made palaces, statues, jewels from them; or dams, ramparts, tombs. They are neither useful nor famous. They do not sparkle in any ring, any diadem. They do not publicize lists of victories, laws of Empire, carved in ineffable characters. Neither boundaries nor memorials, yet exposed to the elements, but without honour or veneration, they are witnesses only to themselves.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , August 2005 , pp. 89 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2005

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Note

These extracts are translated from the French publication, Pierres (Paris, Gallimard, 1966).