Paul Valery et Profusion du soir.

Je me sens qui me trempe, et pur qui me dédaigne! En plus simples mots: Je percevois qui me mouille, et pur qui me repousse! C’est à dire en autres mots: Il pleut.

The Creation!!

I must confess that I don't know which one came first: The hen or the egg. But the Nature made both by some method. It's the same question with the war and the religion. Man invented the religion and uses war as a method to solve his problems. And Nature invented man by the same method as it created the hen.

Shameful!!

Americans and lots of others are obsessed by sexual inclinations. That's shameful! Everyone shall have the same rights, it's as easy as that!!

Il faut ...

L’Ange frais de l’oeil nu pressent dans sa pudeur, Haute nativité d’étoile élucidée, Un diamant agir qui berce la splendeur … Paul Valéry Profusion du soir

Valéry et La tentation de l’esprit par Marcel Raymond (1946).

Sur les vers anciens Valéry, à dix-neuf ans, est déjà lui-même, dans cette poésie qui se voudrait sans aveu, degagé du trop humain de la vie sentimentale, architecture et musique. Quant à Valéry, il n’attend pas de la poésie qu’elle lui révèle “un autre monde”, ou “un arrière-monde”, qui existerait avant elle et don’t elle serait une imitation, ou une figure allusive. Il lui suffit que la poésie étant parfaitement elle-même, transcende les choses humaines; et il pense qu’un esprit lucide, maître absolu de ses moyens, peut suffire à l’édifier. L’eau riande et la danse infidèle des vagues… ”infidèle” a le sens latin d’infidus, ”changeant”. Pareillement, c’est le latin evadere qui justifie la chevelure “evasive” aux doigts de la fileuse. Mais ces latinismes et ses diverses figures ne repondent pas à un simple préjugé d’humaniste. Ce qui importe, c’est d’essayer de ressusciter dans le langage l’impression, avec sa fraîcheur et sa teneur ontologique. A cela prétendait Rimbaud, qui voulait que le poète entreprît ”un long, immense et réglé dérèglement de tous les sens”. Si nos sense sont réglés par l’habitude que nous avons des choses, dans un monde qui s’est peu à peu stéréotypé sous nos regards, chaque sensation étant limitée par l’usage que nous faisons des objets, par l’idée que nous en prenons, l’essentiel est de rompre ces liaisons, ces scellés apposés au langage, et de chercher un contact profond et réel avec les choses, c’est-à-dire avec nous-mêmes, (Bergson a développé ces pensées, qui se trouvent, dès 1894, dans l’Introduction à la method de Léonardo de Vinci). Ainsi se forment des comprimés linguistiques, des metaphors qui detonent, semblables à des cartouches d’artificier (dira un jour Lucien Fabre), parce qu’elles font court-circuit entre des mots que l’usage sépare, et qu’elles favorisent, par le truchement du langage, de nouvelles et violentes syntheses des qualities et des elements de l’univers. Eté, roche d’air pur… Le réflexe du lecteur, prisonier de ses habitudes, est de fuir aussitôt cette image “impossible”, pour se représenter quelque roch ruisselante, au bord de la mer. Ce faisant, il détruit l’image, il se refuse à son intensité plénière, au lieu de l’avaler telle quelle, pour sentir par tout son être la presence irréfutable de l’air dense et chaud, compact, le grain pur de ses molecules. La poésie, c’est d’abord cette alchimie verbale, ces abus et transmutations. Mais ceux-ci sont commandés ici par une conscience aiguë des mouvements du corps dans le monde, du corps poreux et penetrable, assimilable au monde. Là est l’intérét des “trouvailles”, longtemps cherchées sans doute, qui donnent leur personalité aux vers anciens. Cependant, les idées de la vie auxquelles Valéry donne ses préférences (peu importe qu’il assure devoir ses themes à la deduction logique ou au hazard) sont celle du triomphe, de la gloire, qui sonne avec les fanfares du soleil, et celle de la tendresse, de l’abandon, murmurant à la nuit ou dans le crepuscule. Gide rapport que son ami, vers 1890, répétait avec insistence un mot qu’il attribuait à Cervantes : comment cacher un home? Et c’est Valéry lui-même qui se trahit par ces deux mouvements antagonists : l’aspiration à la toute-puissance, ou à un état d’hypersensibilité voluptueuse. Mais ces deux idées de la vie se presentment souvent l’une et l’autre sous les apparences de l‘eau, tantôt de l’eau jaillissante, violente, l’eau de la mer, tantôt de l’eau dormante, doux-coulante, l’étang, la fontaine. Hantée par une humeur fluide, meme si elle n’est pas faite d’images liquids, cette poésie aime à s’étaler en nappe tranquilles, ou à se rassembler en vagues, en masse verbales, percutantes.

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Hello, thanks for the connection, I'm most obbliged to YOU. Many Greetings from Sweden.

CV short version

Rgd my ancesters: My ancestor come to Sweden from Wallonia in the present Belgium. My first ancestor come to the town of Norrköping in 1631. His name today would be Goffe. These people from Belgium had a new method to produce iron and weapons made of iron. They were called Valloniens, they talked the Belgium language (French), They were Catholics and were granted liberty of religion. They lived separated from the Swedish population, marriage with Swedes were forbidden in several hundred years to preserve their technology. Many hundreds of Valloniens came to Sweden as a deal between the Kings, negotiated by Louis de Geer, to work in the factories in special production teams made up of Valloniens. Reference is the book “Vallonerna” by Karl Kilbom, Stockholm 1958, Tidens Förlag. Google on the word “Wallonia” and read if you like.

Rgd me: My first job in 1959 was to be a nursing auxiliary in a school for retarded children in Katrineholm i Sweden. Just some months. Very instructive. I was asked to continue in a gymnasium, but I was very tired of school. I preferred to work to get some real life experience and earn some money as well. I have learned much later that my family was of labor class and such children should start working to support themselves.

During 1959 to 1962: I worked in Engstrom’s Mechanical Workshops in Katrineholm. Half the time in the office and the second half in the workshop. During most of the time I studied in a correspondence school named Hermods. I became a foreman in a mechanical shop. I made about 127 correspondence letters. Night job, coffee and a new radio, of the mark Blaupunkt, in an old attic room equipped with an electrical hotplate. The room was in an old building directly outside the factory fence. Very thrilling! I’m very proud of it all indeed.

After that I made 3 years military service. I was a military instructor for the last year in the Artillery Corps A7 in Visby. Of that period I spent half a year in the School of the Defense in Uppsala to become a Student. Then I went home to my parent to spend 1.5 year to become an engineer at the Technical School in Katrineholm. My father paid the food. I became a technical production engineer. Even before the end of the studies 1967 I had got an employment at ASEA in Västerås.

As soon as I got settled in a small apartment for a young unmarried person in Västerås I applied, at ABF, for a university course in math. In a year I made it. Later I followed a very special technical education called ASEA’s Higher Technical Course. Then I had got many university points and I was a known fellow. Later I made a judicial course in law and common justice on the university level. That’s it! I’ve often been elected member of the Board of the local Trade Union. I know the applicable laws and Traditions reasonably well.

My time within ASEA/ABB for the years 1967 to 2004 can be divided as follows:

A. Two years within the O-division as a work study guy. My task was to write out and calculate the standard price for the various work moments needed for the production in the heavy workshop. Such work is called preparation of mechanical and electrical work for various products, for instance very big electrical generators, pipe systems etc.

B. 8 years within ASEA Research within the Dep. for Mechanics and for Stress and Strain. During 5 years I helped a team to design and calculate a human centrifuge, for testing of apparatuses as well. I know human engineering. That advanced and very big machine was made for the Soviet Space program.

C. 27 years within the Dep. for tendering and exportation of switchgear up to 1200 kV to lots of countries.

Some comments:
I have been a Swedish expert in electrical short circuit in Cigré in Paris and have written some article about that. I have been an expert in the Swedish Technical Commission to help to create some standards for outdoor switchyards, but also for indoor switchgear rooms and thermal flow. I was an expert on arcing and the thermal flow that occurs at short circuit. I have translated technical specifications in English, French and Spanish to Swedish for salesmen and designers use.
I have been an advisor to designers to show them how a heavy transformer shall be built into a carrier, with a sufficient number of bogies, drawn by a truck. The carrier and the transformer was a closed unit to reduce its total weight. The vehicle was made in several examples. The purpose was to get a new transformer into the electrical system when a transformer failed.
I have designed and dimensioned wheels for trains carrying iron ore by using FEM computer programs. I have dealt with vibration analysis, modal analysis, of mechanical structures, supports, portals, transmission towers etc. Earthquake analysis is one such type of analysis that I know. See John M. Biggs Introduction to Structural Dynamics if you are interested.
I have, with some success I think, been advisor to designers in the ability to design.
During several years I was very busy making PC programs and programs for large computer in Basic, Algol, Fortran and the macro-program of Symphony, and the drawing program called AutoCad. Then I was also advisor for a number of very young people. To follow and correct computer programs is probably what I know best. It’s quite complicated, but it’s fun to realize that it’s possible to get right and it works properly. I haven’t programmed in C++, it would be fun.

Now: I became a pensioner on the autumn of 2004. Everything I have described above was very interesting and never dull and boring, not for a second. Now I’m using my time for interesting private matters, for instance reading classical French and English books, both novels and poetry. Physics and math fundamentals are also within my interest. A lot of time is used to take care of my Alsatian dog and our mutual physical training/exercise. I assist my family when I am able to do so.