Toh Hsien Min

31e Festival franco-anglais de poésie
Sculpture sur prose 2 / Prose Sculpture 2

Poème

 

Warning

 

at midnight you left unfolding concerns

with the history that can be written

to favor one more than others.

your biases are prevalent in the possible events.

we can see how many of these result in change.

we have to say that many real-life situations

rob us of knowledge and geometry.

divided by mystical, infinite form,

the lines are not natural to our language,

but only a mathematician would be interested.

 

Texte d'origine

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Nassim Taleb : Fooled by Ramdomness, 1re partie, 3 : « Solon's Warning - A mathematical meditation on History », Random House, 2005