{"id":172,"date":"2015-11-17T19:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/?p=172"},"modified":"2021-04-05T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T19:58:00","slug":"paris-walking-in-the-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/paris-walking-in-the-void\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris: Walking in the Void"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\u00a0\u00bb173&Prime; img_size=\u00a0\u00bblarge\u00a0\u00bb alignment=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb]<style>.ld_spacer_6a9176a02ac03{height:30px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"ld-empty-space ld_spacer_6a9176a02ac03\"><span class=\"liquid_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sirens and police cars crisscrossing our streets -shootings, radio, TV, messages from friends, from children, from all over the world -confusion. Within a few minutes, we are in a war zone -sirens and police cars crisscrossing down there. The death toll keeps rising, striking the younger ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bataclan<\/em>, <em>Stade de France<\/em>, <em>Eagles of death metal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Too many sirens, too many police cars, too many words. Words non-stop clashing in my head since Friday evening -how did it become so chaotic so fast? Words accumulate -scattered words, randomly bombarded into each other. They\u2019ve been stuck in my ear more than three days now. How to avoid them? Where to escape?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bataclan<\/em>, <em>Stade de France<\/em>, <em>Eagles of death metal<br \/>\n<\/em><em>kalachnikov, terroristes<\/em>, <em>leur <\/em><em>arsenal de guerre<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I often wondered why some musical tunes, even if heard briefly, wander endlessly in my head -such is the case for Schubert\u2019s <em>Trout<\/em> or Gounod\u2019s <em>Carmen<\/em>. So I desperately turn off the radio as soon as they pop up, in order to avoid falling prey. Too many sirens, too many police cars, too many words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bataclan, Stade de France, Eagles of death metal<br \/>\n<\/em><em>kalachnikov, terroristes, leur arsenal de guerre<br \/>\n<\/em><em>M\u00eame pas peur<\/em>, <em>nos valeurs<\/em>, <em>destruction des valeurs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last night\u2019s issue of <em>Le Monde<\/em> was long, too long -48 pages. How to avoid it? How to read it all? No wonder, we all did sleep poorly. Marc\u2019s dream, waking up in Paris : \u00ab The school is on fire, threatening to expand. I seize a fire brand, I throw it far away and I do stop the flames. \u00bb As for my own one: \u00ab In Paris, US tourists wondering what to do, I translate messages, explaining what happens. \u00bb What do the dreams tell us? What goes on in our brains?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bataclan<\/em>, <em>Stade de France<\/em>, <em>Eagles of death metal<br \/>\n<\/em><em>kalachnikov, terroristes, leur arsenal de guerre<br \/>\n<\/em><em>M\u00eame pas peur<\/em>, <em>nos valeurs<\/em>, <em>destruction des valeurs<br \/>\n<\/em><em>c\u2019est la guerre<\/em>, <em>c\u2019est la guerre<\/em>, <em>c\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9tat islamique<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How to keep working ? How to keep going? \u201cApr\u00e8s les attentats, lib\u00e9rer la parole\u201d, most psychiatrists claim, according to all. For direct survivors, to speak is the best way, the only way to go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bataclan<\/em>, <em>Stade de France<\/em>, <em>Eagles of death metal<br \/>\n<\/em><em>kalachnikov, terroristes, leur arsenal de guerre<br \/>\nM\u00eame pas peur<\/em>, <em>nos valeurs<\/em>, <em>destruction des valeurs<br \/>\n<\/em><em>c\u2019est la guerre, c\u2019est la guerre, c\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9tat islamique<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Congr\u00e8s de Versailles, Allons-z-enfants\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For us all, at large, one single thing to do, to slowly start again, step by step, rebuilding a micro-universe \u2013the one so finely described by Erving Goffman in <em>Asylums<\/em>. To start thinking again, turn those orphan and scattered and random words back into meaningful elements, into sentences, into projects, into an intellectual fabric of sort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bataclan<\/em>, <em>Stade de France<\/em>, <em>Eagles of death metal<br \/>\n<\/em><em>kalachnikov, terroristes, leur <\/em><em>arsenal de guerre<br \/>\n<\/em><em>M\u00eame pas peur<\/em>, <em>nos valeurs<\/em>, <em>destruction des valeurs<br \/>\n<\/em><em>c\u2019est la guerre, c\u2019est la guerre, c\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9tat islamique<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Congr\u00e8s de Versailles, Allons-z-enfants\u2026<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00e9tat d\u2019exception, <\/em><em>\u00e9tat d\u2019urgence<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00abThe enemy is incredibly strong and determined, we\u2019re totally unequipped and we\u2019ve not seen anything yet \u00bb, judge Marc Tr\u00e9vidic quietly asserts. Too many sirens, too many police cars, too many words. I\u2019m walking in the void, taking care of each step. I\u2019m walking in the void and longing for silence. I\u2019m walking in the void, thinking of Burundi, thinking of our friends. <em>Bataclan<\/em>, <em>Stade de France<\/em>, <em>Eagels of death metal<\/em>&#8230;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<style>.ld_spacer_6a9176a02b88b{height:20px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"ld-empty-space ld_spacer_6a9176a02b88b\"><span class=\"liquid_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">par <strong>Annie Cohen-Solal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<style>.ld_spacer_6a9176a02c0d9{height:30px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"ld-empty-space ld_spacer_6a9176a02c0d9\"><span class=\"liquid_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirens and police cars crisscrossing our streets -shootings, radio, TV, messages from friends, from children, from all over the world -confusion. Within a few minutes, we are in a war zone -sirens and police cars crisscrossing down there. The death toll keeps rising, striking the younger ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anniecohensolal.com\/sitev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}