{"id":11661,"date":"2022-06-06T18:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2022-06-06T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:25:01","slug":"comme-a-la-samaritaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=11661","title":{"rendered":"Comme \u00e0 la samaritaine*"},"content":{"rendered":"

*\u00ab On trouve tout \u00e0 la Samaritaine \u00bb est un c\u00e9l\u00e8bre slogan publicitaire.<\/strong><\/em>
*<\/span>\u00ab You can find everything at La Samaritaine \u00bb is a famous advertising slogan.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Ce n\u2019est pas un artichaut
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Avant l\u2019invention de la radio, les nouvelles circulaient autrement : les chanteurs de rue \u00e9taient nombreux \u00e0 raconter par leurs chansons ce que relataient \u00ab le p\u2019tit Parisien \u00bb ou autres organes de presse dans leurs colonnes. La radio a fait dispara\u00eetre cette forme de chanson, et je ne sais pas s\u2019il faut le d\u00e9plorer (est-ce que c\u2019\u00e9tait mieux avant ?).<\/strong>
Before the invention of the radio, the news circulated differently: many street singers told through their songs what \u00ab le p’tit Parisien \u00bb or other press organs reported in their columns. The radio has made this form of song disappear, and I don’t know if it’s to be regretted (was it better before?).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Quand je suis n\u00e9e, la radio s\u2019\u00e9tait d\u00e9j\u00e0 g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9e et la t\u00e9l\u00e9 allait suivre : je ne peux pas regretter quelque chose que je n\u2019ai pas connu tout en ayant conscience de l\u2019uniformisation d\u2019une certaine culture. La radio est \u00ab une \u00e9vidence \u00bb<\/em><\/span> comme le confort des habitations : il ne me viendrait pas \u00e0 l\u2019id\u00e9e que dans mon pays, un logement ne soit pas muni d\u2019eau et d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9, par exemple, ce qui prouve bien mon ignorance d\u2019une certaine r\u00e9alit\u00e9. <\/strong>
When I was born, radio had already become widespread and TV would follow: I can’t regret something that I didn’t know, while being aware of the standardization of a certain culture. The radio is \u00ab obvious \u00bb<\/em><\/span> like the comfort of the dwellings: it would not occur to me that in my country, a dwelling is not equipped with water and electricity, for example, which proves my ignorance of a certain reality.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Je pourrais aussi bien r\u00e9p\u00e9ter l\u2019histoire des chaussettes que je vous ai racont\u00e9e<\/a> \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2019. Ces \u00e9vidences<\/em><\/span> qui n\u2019en sont pas. De nos jours, il est \u00e9vident<\/em><\/span> pour des milliards de gens de se d\u00e9placer en voiture. La gomme des pneus se d\u00e9pose sur la route, ainsi que les particules de toutes les pi\u00e8ces qui s\u2019usent, que vous devez remplacer, les freins, tout \u00e7a\u2026 et les gaz d\u2019\u00e9chappement se r\u00e9pandent. Il me para\u00eet absolument illusoire de vouloir fabriquer des v\u00e9hicules non polluants. Sommes-nous conscients du fait qu\u2019en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, rien de tout cela n\u2019est \u00e9vident<\/em><\/span> ?<\/strong>
I might as well repeat the story of the socks that I told you<\/a> at the end of 2019. These obvious<\/em><\/span> things that are not. Nowadays, it is obvious<\/em><\/span> for billions of people to travel by car. The rubber from the tires gets deposited on the road, along with the particles from all the parts that wear out, that you need to replace, the brakes, all that\u2026 and the exhaust fumes spill out. It seems to me absolutely illusory to want to manufacture non-polluting vehicles. Are we aware that in reality none of this is obvious<\/em><\/span> ?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Je peux r\u00e9p\u00e9ter mon propos en rempla\u00e7ant \u00ab \u00e9vident \u00bb<\/em><\/span> par \u00ab naturel \u00bb<\/em><\/span> : nous trouvons naturel<\/em><\/span> que l\u2019eau coule quand nous ouvrons le robinet, nous trouvons naturels<\/em><\/span> tous ces artefacts qui font partie de notre existence, qui nous procurent un confort m\u00eame modeste. Peut-\u00eatre trouvons-nous aussi naturel<\/em><\/span> de mener un mode de vie qui ne nous convient pas, trop de h\u00e2te, de rendement obligatoire, de comptes \u00e0 rendre\u2026 car il faut bien vivre.<\/strong>
I can repeat my point by replacing \u00ab obvious \u00bb<\/em><\/span> with \u00ab natural \u00bb<\/em><\/span>: we find it natural<\/em><\/span> that water flows when we turn on the tap, we find natural<\/em><\/span> all those artifacts that are part of our existence, that provide us with even modest comforts. Perhaps we also find it natural<\/em><\/span> to lead a way of life that does not suit us, too much haste, mandatory performance, accountability\u2026 because we have to be able to live.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Je veux dire qu\u2019il n\u2019y a rien de naturel<\/em><\/span>, rien d\u2019\u00e9vident<\/span><\/em> dans nos modes de vie : ils sont le fruit des recherches de toutes les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations qui nous ont pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9s et il n\u2019est ni naturel<\/span><\/em> ni \u00e9vident<\/span><\/em> de continuer comme \u00e7a. Par la force des choses des objets technologiques dispara\u00eetront, devenus trop co\u00fbteux, ou sans int\u00e9r\u00eat. Des esp\u00e8ces v\u00e9g\u00e9tales et animales dispara\u00eetront, par la force des choses non contr\u00f4l\u00e9es, des pollutions vari\u00e9es, par la disparition d\u2019autres esp\u00e8ces dont elles se nourrissaient.<\/strong>
I mean that there is nothing natural<\/span><\/em>, nothing obvious<\/span><\/em> in our ways of life: they are the fruit of the research of all the generations that have preceded us and it is neither natural<\/span><\/em> nor obvious<\/span><\/em> to continue as that. By force of circumstances, technological objects will disappear, become too expensive, or without interest. Plant and animal species will disappear, by the force of uncontrolled circumstances, various pollutions, by the disappearance of other species on which they fed.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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O\u00f9 cela nous conduit-il ? Je suis en permanence dans le questionnement mais je n\u2019ai jamais de r\u00e9ponse. Dans le grand parc derri\u00e8re la maison, nous esp\u00e9rons favoriser le maintien ou m\u00eame, soyons fous, le retour de quelques esp\u00e8ces. Une certaine biodiversit\u00e9 est \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre en effet. Mais que sont huit mille m\u00e8tres carr\u00e9s enclav\u00e9s comme ils le sont au milieu des champs de ma\u00efs ? Le colibri a beau se d\u00e9mener, quand l\u2019agriculteur voisin traite, nous nous r\u00e9fugions \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur pour ne pas inhaler de poison. Nous ne savons pas quoi faire d\u2019autre.<\/strong>
Where does this lead us? I am constantly in the questioning but I never have an answer. In the large garden behind the house, we hope to promote the maintenance or even, let’s be crazy, the return of some species. A certain biodiversity is indeed at work. But what are eight thousand square meters landlocked as they are in the middle of cornfields? The hummingbird can try as much as it would like, when the neighboring farmer treats, we take refuge inside so as not to inhale poison. We don’t know what else to do.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Je ne m\u00e9lange pas tout et n\u2019importe quoi : il y a une \u00e9volution ultra-rapide et qui s\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e8re, dans les milieux aussi bien technologique que naturel. Il y a un lien entre la disparition des chanteurs de rue en tant que dispensateurs de l\u2019info et celle des sauterelles dont les bonds faisaient cr\u00e9piter l\u2019herbe autour de mes pas dans notre parc. Les merles y sont nombreux, leur pr\u00e9sence est la preuve qu\u2019ils trouvent de quoi se nourrir, mais cette pr\u00e9sence est-elle un indice de bonne sant\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de notre coin de paradis ? De bonne sant\u00e9 jusqu\u2019o\u00f9 ? Plus loin que le bout de leur bec ? Je n\u2019ai pas les connaissances pour juger de la qualit\u00e9 biologique du terrain\u2026 J\u2019ai supprim\u00e9 la premi\u00e8re renou\u00e9e du Japon qui a point\u00e9 son joli nez chez nous, parce que je la connais. Que nous apprennent les esp\u00e8ces animales ou v\u00e9g\u00e9tales qui s\u2019installent chez nous, ou qui disparaissent ?<\/strong>
I don’t mix everything and anything: there is an ultra-fast and accelerating evolution, in both technological and natural environments. There is a link between the disappearance of the street singers as the dispensers of information and that of the grasshoppers whose leaps made the grass crackle around my steps in our garden. The blackbirds are numerous there, their presence is proof that they find food, but is this presence an indication of the general good health of our corner of paradise? How healthy? Beyond the tip of their beak? I don’t have the knowledge to judge the biological quality of the land… I removed the first Japanese knotweed that showed its pretty nose here, because I know it. What do we learn from the animal or plant species that settle in our home, or disappear?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Je dois me contenter de mes observations, de mes d\u00e9couvertes, le plus souvent \u00e0 l\u2019origine de nouvelles questions. Je les partage avec vous : elles me permettent pour l\u2019essentiel de mesurer mon ignorance, et la difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 r\u00e9ussir des photos dans des conditions que je ne ma\u00eetrise pas !<\/strong>
I have to content myself with my observations, my discoveries, most often at the origin of new questions. I share them with you: they essentially allow me to measure my ignorance, and the difficulty of taking photos in conditions that I do not control!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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L\u2019autre matin, je trouve une bestiole, comme un petit ver tout noir dans la baignoire. Pour \u00e9viter le massacre inutile, je r\u00e9ussis \u00e0 le glisser dans une petite bo\u00eete en carton. Alors, \u00e0 ma grande surprise, je le vois \u00e9mettre un bref \u00e9clair de lumi\u00e8re verte : un ver luisant ? Mais oui ! Ils sont de plus en plus rares. Je me demande comment il est arriv\u00e9 au premier \u00e9tage, je vais le d\u00e9poser avec pr\u00e9caution au pied d\u2019un arbre.<\/strong>
The other morning, I find a bug, like a little black worm in the bathtub. To avoid unnecessary slaughter, I managed to slip it into a small cardboard box. Then, to my surprise, I see it emit a brief flash of green light: a glow worm? But yes ! They are increasingly rare. I wonder how it got to the first floor, I place him carefully at the foot of a tree.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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En tirant le rideau, j\u2019entends se d\u00e9chirer des fils de soie, l\u2019araign\u00e9e est cach\u00e9e dans le pli. D\u00e9sempar\u00e9e par mon intrusion, elle cherche \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger sa prog\u00e9niture cach\u00e9e dans un cocon, qu\u2019elle aura vite r\u00e9par\u00e9, et dans lequel elle se dissimule elle aussi : je ne tire plus sur le rideau, la voil\u00e0 tranquille.<\/strong>
As I draw the curtain, I hear silk threads tearing, the spider is hidden in the fold. Distraught by my intrusion, she seeks to protect her offspring hidden in a cocoon, which she will have quickly repaired, and in which she hides herself too: I no longer pull on the curtain, she is quiet.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Le cocon d\u2019une autre araign\u00e9e est install\u00e9e entre des feuilles du rosier. Je tire sur la feuille en \u00e9vitant de la d\u00e9chirer. <\/strong>
The cocoon of another spider is installed between the leaves of the rosebush. I pull on the leaf, avoiding tearing it.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Enfin, on commence \u00e0 la voir (notez la t\u00e2che jaune floue en haut). <\/strong>
Finally, we begin to see it (note the blurry yellow spot at the top).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Voici la photo la moins rat\u00e9e, \u00e0 gauche mon pouce vous donne l\u2019\u00e9chelle, le monstre est \u00e0 peine de la taille de mon ongle.<\/strong>
Here is the least missed photo, on the left my thumb gives you the scale, the monster is barely the size of my fingernail.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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J\u2019ai laiss\u00e9 d\u2019autres monstres se goinfrer de rosiers pendant deux ou trois jours, puis je les ai r\u00e9colt\u00e9s et abandonn\u00e9s un peu plus loin dans l\u2019herbe : bon app\u00e9tit les oiseaux !<\/strong>
I let other monsters gobble up rose bushes for a couple of days, then I harvested them and left them a bit further out in the grass: bon appetit birds!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Le m\u00eame jour, une coccinelle (la t\u00e2che jaune floue) aux couleurs non officielles (une marginale ?) officiait sur le rosier, le m\u00eame, celui qui h\u00e9berge chenilles, araign\u00e9e et autres machins inconnus. Je crains qu\u2019elle ne m\u2019ait fait un bras d\u2019honneur !<\/strong>
The same day, a ladybug (the fuzzy yellow spot) with unofficial colors (a marginal?) officiated on the rosebush, the same one, the one that hosts caterpillars, spiders and other unknown things. I’m afraid she gave me the two-fingered gesture !<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Toujours sur le m\u00eame rosier-m\u00e9nagerie, voici un individu au gros ventre rond et aux ailes diaphanes : il s\u2019agit certainement d\u2019un ange, m\u00eame si je ne les imaginais pas comme \u00e7a.<\/strong>
Still on the same menagerie-rosebush, here is an individual with a big round belly and diaphanous wings: it is certainly an angel, even if I didn’t imagine them like that.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Nous avions un joli marronnier depuis un an ou deux, le voici sur le flanc, et voici pourquoi : j\u2019identifie cette fois une attaque massive des castors-bonsa\u00efs.<\/strong>
We’ve had a nice chestnut tree for a year or two, here it\u2019s dead, and here’s why: this time I identify a massive beaver-bonsai attack.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Mais nos observations de la vie sauvage ne sont rien \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 du travail que peut faire une \u00e9quipe de scientifiques plus comp\u00e9tente que moi ! Quant aux \u00e9crivains \u00e0 la recherche d\u2019id\u00e9es originales, pourquoi se creusent-ils tant la t\u00eate ? La nature est d\u2019une imagination inconcevable.<\/strong>
But our observations of wildlife are nothing compared to the work that a team of scientists more competent than me can do! As for writers looking for original ideas, why do they rack their brains so hard? Nature is of an inconceivable imagination.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Je vous invite vivement \u00e0 regarder \u00ab\u00a0Le petit peuple du potager\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>, propos\u00e9 pour encore un moment par Arte (mieux vaut \u00eatre francophone, mais les images sont explicites \u2014 Ceux d\u2019entre vous qui sont loin peuvent-ils y avoir acc\u00e8s\u00a0?). J\u2019ai trouv\u00e9 tout \u00e0 fait horrible la gu\u00eape qui pond dans le corps d\u2019une chenille o\u00f9 \u00e9cloront ses larves, dont la chenille prendra soin car son cerveau a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truit\u00a0!<\/strong>
I urge you to watch \u00ab\u00a0Le petit peuple du potager\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>, offered for a while by Arte (better to be French-speaking, but the images are self-explanatory \u2014 Can those of you who are far away have access to it?). Almost unbearable: the wasp that lays eggs in the body of a caterpillar where its larvae will hatch, which the caterpillar will take care of because its brain has been destroyed!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Nous avons beau \u00eatre de plus en plus inform\u00e9s, nos capacit\u00e9s d\u2019intervention nous semblent de plus en plus r\u00e9duites. Je pense \u00e0 cela pendant que tomates, courgettes et pommes de terre fleurissent.<\/strong>
We may be more and more informed, but our intervention capacities seem to us to be more and more reduced. I think of that while tomatoes, zucchini and potatoes are blooming.
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Et je vois dans les tiges dress\u00e9es du card\u00e8re vigoureux comme l\u2019\u00e9lan de la nature triomphante.<\/strong>
And I see in the erect stems of the vigorous teasel like the momentum of triumphant nature.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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*\u00ab On trouve tout \u00e0 la Samaritaine \u00bb est un c\u00e9l\u00e8bre slogan publicitaire.*\u00ab You can find everything at La Samaritaine \u00bb is a famous advertising slogan. Avant l\u2019invention de la radio, les nouvelles circulaient autrement : les chanteurs de rue \u00e9taient nombreux \u00e0 raconter par … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions\/11719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}