Discussion Livre:Mallarmé - Un coup de dés, 1897 - btv1b86256459.djvu


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
    UN COUP DE DÉS
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
     JAMAIS
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
   QUAND BIEN MÊME LANCÉ DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES
                                                                          
ÉTERNELLES
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
          DU FOND D’UN NAUFRAGE


                                                                          
        SOIT
             que
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                     l’abîme
                                                                          
           blanchi
                  étale
                        furieux
                                   sous une inclinaison
                                           plane désespérément
                                                                          
                                                            d’aile
                                                                          
                                                         la sienne
                                                                     par
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
avance retombée d’un mal à dresser le vol
                      et couvrant les jaillissements
                            coupant au ras les bonds
                                                                          
                                                                          
         très à l’intérieur résume
                                                                          
l’ombre enfouie dans la profondeur par cette voile alternative
                                                                          
                           jusqu’adapter
                                  à l’envergure
                                                                          
             sa béante profondeur en tant que la coque
                                                                          
                            d’un bâtiment
                                                                          
                       penché de l’un ou l’autre bord
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                 LE MAÎTRE
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                surgi
                                     inférant
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                  de cette conflagration
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                  que se
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                         comme on menace
                                                                          
                                        le Nombre unique qui ne peut pas
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                  hésite
                                                      cadavre parle bras
                                                                          
                        plutôt
                                que de jouer
                                        en maniaque chenu
                                                  la partie
                                              au nom des flots
                                                                      un
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                           naufrage cela
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
            hors d’anciens calculs
          où la manœuvre avec l’âge oubliée
                                                                          
                                                                          
                    jadis il empoignait la barre
                                                                          
à ses pieds
            de l’horizon unanime
                                                                          
prépare
   s’agite et mêle
       au poing qui l’étreindrait
un destin et les vents
                                                                          
être un autre
                                                                          
               Esprit
                     pour le jeter
                                   dans la tempête
                            en reployer la division et passe fier
                                                                          
                                                                          
écarté du secret qu’il détient
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
envahit le chef
coule en barbe soumise
                                                                          
direct de l’homme
                                                                          
        sans nef
            n’importe
                      où vaine


ancestralement à n’ouvrir pas la main
                                  crispée
                          par delà l’inutile tête
                                                                          
         legs en la disparition
                                                                          
                               à quelqu’un
                                           ambigu
                                                                          
                      l’ultérieur démon immémorial
                                                                          
ayant
        de contrées nulles
                           induit
le vieillard vers cette conjonction suprême avec la probabilité
                                                                          
                                    celui
                                          son ombre puérile
caressée et polie et rendue et lavée
                       assouplie par la vague et soustraite
                    aux durs os perdus entre les ais
                                                                          
                                          né
                                             d’un ébat
la mer tentant par l’aïeul ou lui contre la mer
              une chance oiseuse
                                                                          
                                                             fiançailles
dont
     le voile d’illusion rejailli leur hantise
     ainsi que le fantôme d’un geste
                                                                          
                          chancellera
                          s’affalera
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                      folie
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
     N’ABOLIRA


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
      COMME SI
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                         Une insinuation
                                                                          
                                                              au silence
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                     dans quelque proche
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                 voltige
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
simple
                                                                          
enroulée avec ironie
                  ou
                   le mystère
                             précipité
                                      hurlé
                                                                          
tourbillon d’hilarité et d’horreur
                                                                          
                                                                          
autour du gouffre
                        sans le joncher
                                       ni fuir
                                                                          
                     et en berce le vierge indice
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                COMME SI
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                       plume solitaire éperdue
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                    sauf
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
que la rencontre ou l’effleure une toque de minuit
                       et immobilise
            au velours chiffonné par un esclaffement sombre
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                cette blancheur rigide
                                                                          
dérisoire
                     en opposition au ciel
         trop
                pour ne pas marquer
                               exigüment
                                     quiconque
                                                                          
                     prince amer de l’écueil
                                                                          
                  s’en coiffe comme de l’héroïque
                        irrésistible mais contenu
                    par sa petite raison virile
                                                  en foudre


                                                                          
soucieux
           expiatoire et pubère
                                                     muet
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                      La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette
                                                   au front invisible
                                          scintille
                                                   puis ombrage
                                         une stature mignonne ténébreuse
                                              en sa torsion de sirène
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                       par d’impatientes squames ultimes
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
             rire
                                                                          
                    que
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                         SI
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
de vertige
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
debout
                                                                          
   le temps
       de souffleter
bifurquées
                                                                          
       un roc
                                                                          
   faux manoir
          tout de suite
                évaporé en brumes
                                                                          
              qui imposa
                   une borne à l’infini
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                          C’ETAIT
                                                            issu stellaire
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
CE SERAIT
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
         pire
                   non
                              davantage ni moins
                                                  indifféremment mais autant
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                           LE NOMBRE
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                         EXISTÂT-IL
                                    autrement qu’hallucination éparse d’agonie
                                                                          
                                COMMENÇÂT-IL ET CESSÂT-IL
                               sourdant que nié et clos quand apparu
                                          enfin
                                       par quelque profusion répandue en rareté
                                                     SE CHIFFRÂT-IL
                                                                          
                                        évidence de la somme pour peu qu’une
                                                     ILLUMINÂT-IL
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                       LE HASARD
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
              Choit
                    la plume
                          rythmique suspens du sinistre
                                                         s’ensevelir
                                             aux écumes originelles
                   naguères d’où sursauta son délire jusqu’à une cime
                                                   flétrie
                              par la neutralité identique du gouffre


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                           RIEN
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                   de la mémorable crise
                                                        ou se fût
                                                             l’évènement
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
accompli en vue de tout résultat nul
                                     humain
                                                                          
                     N’AURA EU LIEU
                  une élévation ordinaire verse l’absence
                                                                          
                                                QUE LE LIEU
inférieur clapotis quelconque comme pour disperser l’acte vide
                            abruptement qui sinon
                         par son mensonge
                                eût fondé
                              la perdition
                                                                          
dans ces parages
                    du vague
                            en quoi toute réalité se dissout


                                                                          
           EXCEPTÉ
                           à l’altitude
                                                PEUT-ETRE
                                                aussi loin qu’un endroit
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          


                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
fusionne avec au delà
                                                                          
                      hors l’intérêt
                  quant à lui signalé
                                     en général
selon telle obliquité par telle déclivité
                                          de feux
                                                                          
       vers
            ce doit être
                 le Septentrion aussi Nord
                                                                          
                                        UNE CONSTELLATION
                                                                          
                  froide d’oubli et de désuétude
                                        pas tant
                                       qu’elle n’énumère
                       sur quelque surface vacante et supérieure
                                        le heurt successif
                                                    sidéralement
                          d’un compte total en formation
                                                                          
veillant
            doutant
                     roulant
                             brillant et méditant
                                                                          
                                          avant de s’arrêter
                            à quelque point dernier qui le sacre
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
                                Toute Pensée émet un Coup de Dés
                                                                          

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