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Des pieds et des mains

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"Pourquoi des pieds et des mains? On connaît l’expression «faire des pieds et des mains» qui exprime l’effort de l’homme à atteindre un but, contre vents et marées. De là est née notre réflexion sur le rôle des pieds et des mains chez l’homme: par la station debout, le pied a libéré la main, et la main a libéré la parole. Une telle verticalité conduit chacun de nous au désir d’une trans-ascendance ou d’un dépassement de soi, dans tous les domaines où pieds et mains se conjuguent pour atteindre l’excellence (de l’artiste à l’escaladeur, du sportif au funambule, du danseur au tribun, du semeur de graines au semeur de mots, de l’athée au croyant)…, avant que la Camarde aux pieds fourchus et aux mains torses ne vienne nous réduire en gisants, mains jointes et pieds inertes. La Bible, la Littérature et l’Art ont été notre réservoir de recherches"-- Why feet and hands? We know the expression "to go above and beyond," which expresses the effort of the man to reach a goal, against winds and tides (the French expression is translated literally as "to make hands and feet"). Hence our reflection on the role of the feet and hands in which man was born: by standing, the foot released his hand, and the hand freed the word. Such verticality leads each of us to the desire for transcendence or surpassing of oneself, in all the fields where feet and hands combine to achieve excellence (from the artist to the climber, the sportsman to the tightrope walker, from the dancer to the tribune, from the sower of seeds to the sower of words, from the atheist to the believer) ... before the Camarde with cleft feet and torso hands come to cut us down, with joined hands and inert feet. The Bible, literature and art have been our reservoir of research.

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