Why?: Followed by SwimmingPresses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 5 mars 2020 - 108 pages Why? consists of an extended series of questions about the nature of things, and particularly about the singular thing that is a rose. It begins with and revolves around Angelius Silesius’s famous line, ‘‘The rose is without why, it blooms simply because it blooms.’’ Why? makes a reverse proposition, questioning the thing so that it will bloom. |
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