P-listers Help! Translation needed!

[pynchonoid]

That passage, and the sad optimism of human
self-deception it implies, reminds me of the poem by
Louis Aragon:

"Rien n'est jamais acquis a l'homme [...]
et quand il croit ouvrir ses bras
son ombre est celle d'une croix"

I've got it copied out in a notebook somewhere, but I
don't have the source or reference.


> 
> "The last image was too immediate for any eye to
> register. It may have been 
> a human figure, dreaming of an early evening in each
> great capital luminous 
> enough to tell him he will never die, coming outside
> to wish on the first 
> star. But it was not a star, it was falling, a
> bright angel of death. And in 
> the darkening and awful expanse of screen something
> has kept on, a film we 
> have not learned to see 
it is now a close-up of the
> face, a face we all 
> know-"
> 
>
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