Cnamide - - Sigwarth

Following a former students' evening
                                   of which act 1     extract
Office avenue Franklin Roosevelt Paris (1953)

Alberti - ....  To amuse us, to intrigue us, an alumni party,
with your twisted questions about our sense of global warming! pass... but leave that to those who live by it...
Sig - excuse me, I'm being drawn in by the internal logic of the subject
Alberti - Logic, in the ocean of speculation!
just your phase diagram, (he points) ... where everyone else writes Liquidus and Solidus, you write ... "Imaginus" and "Realus"!  

Admit that your brain is off the beaten track! I find it enlightening and I am your follower, although I would write "Désirus" which is a psychic lack and "imaginus" a plus which leads to the heads, but all that
is analogical... alchemical... symbolic... where is the rational?
Sig - as long as the symbolic model helps the analysis, it is a guide .
you read it very well, and I remember "Desirus",
Alberti - of course ... but the way you do it, nobody buys your literature ... so ... you produce useless stuff and you come back to me slapped ...
Sig (indignant) ah! don't reverse the facts, I've been slammed at your place
to put things in order: your files to follow up, calculations to check, estimates to make
Alberti - I know everything you did.
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here, you see in your diagram of the Imaginary, (he takes the sheet)
there's one thing that strikes me
Sig - ah! well?...
Alberti - it's the narrowness of reality, reduced to almost nothing...
to this pinch... above, the vapours of imagination...
underneath, the clumped grains of memories, undertakings and failures...
between, we live in this incomprehensible gap, between the imaginus and the "realus"...!
One wonders if the Real is not just an epiphenomenon,
unpleasant for many, of the vaps of the Imaginary,
- the case where my body, support of my imaginary,
meets the body, the support of the imaginary of others.  
- At this contact, some of them flow straight back above, into the cinema, novels, travels, settings ... the others rush under the "realus": conformism, memories, rehashing ... I, you see, stretch all my energy to stand between the two... it is there that the world is built.
Sig - acrobatically
Alberti - yes, that's it, acrobatically and more... spread out .. you, you're high on the harmonious song of the spheres of high thermal theories ... you're knocking poor Fumagalli out with transcendental equations, (laughing)
that he draws tombstones on his desk pad!
Sig - I'm training him as a technician ... at your request ...
Alberti - So be it! but in the end ... what do you end up with in your installation calculations? ... the eutectic of empirical data and pragmatic equations of Messrs Pacher and Fouillon, founders of the company! Farewell to the theoretical sirens, as long as you don't invent something better ...
Sig - you have your own ... diplomacy, unctuousness, "savoir y faire", observation of men ... better still: the imitation of Talleyrand! ... at Pacher and Fouillon! ... and at "Notai" where you have a lame foot.
Alberti - it's a model ... you took Goethe ... I, Talleyrand, he helps me to personalise myself, to listen to men, their dreams ... to combine my action ... to succeed ... starting from this soft human reality...
Sig - these are also siren songs!.
one promises this ... the other that ...
Alberti - you don't understand... I don't listen to the voices... that's the "imaginus" side,
I count them and my opinion is made...
That's the "realus" side.
Sig - what if the interests change?
Alberti - I say "Ah, you can see it like that".
Sig smiles
Alberti - Don't laugh; it's this adjustment that ultimately decides my future in the company ... the technology we'll sell there ... and in turn: if I need you or not ... an engineer can always be found if you pay the price ... as I can't at the moment ...
Sig - you're in charge of finance ...
Alberti - and the commercial one! if you had had a sense of commerce with your Flacine, you wouldn't have been here or stayed at home waiting for orders behind your table! and between us you would have done better to give it to your industrialist.
Sig - it was a piece of laboratory junk, what did he care?
Alberti - he had the connections. Longueva is pistons...
and you, cnamide, you didn't have the access!
Sig - I must admit that with four engineers, physicists and chemists, and a shopkeeper, we weren't very good.
Alberti - or else, you've been tricked, old man.
you preferred to see Asia and your "illuminations"!
Sig - sorry? ..
Alberti - in the right sense of the word! Any discovery is illuminating.
I didn't say "hallucinations". The initiators are the great enlightened ones, then there are the Initiates and then the Philosophers who quibble. You're going to think you're one of them!  
Play politics, it's your right, it goes everywhere.
And between comrades we know that you speak the truth about the planet,
but it ruffles the feathers of some in the middle...

I n t e r l u d e
                                           of which act 2

Crisis of logorrhea 1956

- You have said all you had to say in the first two pages: Man is a "cosmic medium"!  
No more anthropocentrism! It sounds like madness whispered in the ears of those who are not predestined to understand ... but for me it's tonic and I can see that with your "structures of evidence" to convince, you're fleeing into subtleties for intellectuals that you're trying to solicit ... instead of giving birth to the future of which your head is full.
Ah! if my belly could produce a worthy heir as I would train him to dominate ... to lead men to their destiny ... to be a superior spirit, seducer, temptress ... a true new philosopher ... you, you know nothing, nothing ...
I made you dine with Monsieur le Curé. you were correct, that's right. but realize that everything you said to him
and will say doesn't count.. Sacrifizio dell'intelletto..
Naïve! It is he who observed your shortcomings, your argumentation and not you his.. So he spotted some of the big traits that characterize you and whose code the rumours of our networks will propagate, inducing derision, laughter, contempt, indignation; especially if it is a call for money.
The poor must despise it and give it to the rich who keep it according to our wisdom, in our network.
All reflexes that we condition. You are really stupid to think that we will read you to study you and criticize you.
A Jesuit, in charge of that, yes, or a Dominican ... who will make a probable opinion, spot a note,  
a word that our faithful in chorus will laugh or be indignant .. and, by the magic of the faith of the number, the opinion will become certain .. one will know that one must throw out of contempt your paper and all the public will follow without having looked at it .. here, how one eliminates the embarrassers, never of noise nor fury.
Our religious language creates, constitutes the enemy, who no longer appears as he is in reality, but as we want him to be.
Truth is what we say about it, and nothing forces us to say everything about it,
So we tell the truth as closely as possible to the person, whose reality will be what we say about it  
So our religion is magic!... for us the words precede the affirmed reality... we pray...
For you words drag helplessly after the deceptive reality they describe! We say and it is!
all the right ways of seeing and doing must confirm our saying, which becomes the truth!
This is what is "well" brought up, by the "good" sisters. And whatever our "good" priests say, it will be!
because we say it and repeat it in chorus... until it is.