Citation de emmalag
- Well then, he said.
- What are you doing here ?
- I am not sure. Liberty, I suppose. I lived so long under constraints. You wonder why I grub about in the mud - it's what I remember from childhood. Barely ever wearing shoes - picking gorsefor cordial, watching the ponds boiling with frogs. And then, there was Mickael, and he was - civilised. He would pave over every bit of woodland, have every sparrow mounted on a plinth. And he had me mounted on a plinth. My waist pinched, my hair burned into curls, the colour on my face painted out, then painted in again. And now, I'm free to sink back into the earth if I like - to let myself grow over with moss and lichen. Perhaps you're appalled to think we're no higher than the animals - or at least, if we are, only one rung further up the ladder. But no, no - it has given me liberty. No other animal abides by rules - why then must we ?
- What are you doing here ?
- I am not sure. Liberty, I suppose. I lived so long under constraints. You wonder why I grub about in the mud - it's what I remember from childhood. Barely ever wearing shoes - picking gorsefor cordial, watching the ponds boiling with frogs. And then, there was Mickael, and he was - civilised. He would pave over every bit of woodland, have every sparrow mounted on a plinth. And he had me mounted on a plinth. My waist pinched, my hair burned into curls, the colour on my face painted out, then painted in again. And now, I'm free to sink back into the earth if I like - to let myself grow over with moss and lichen. Perhaps you're appalled to think we're no higher than the animals - or at least, if we are, only one rung further up the ladder. But no, no - it has given me liberty. No other animal abides by rules - why then must we ?