A Tale for Tomorrow

on a sort of inner freedom which did not ask for anything from anyone outside, a freedom of presence to the world which depended on nothing and no one and which, how to put it, pierced through the human; and I discovered that each physical being is truly unique and how social norms and images debase and reduce and corrupt it and how necessary it is for each being and each body to find one‟s own relation to the world, no longer an image but an expression of this uniqueness and so, fumblingly, as if by increments, linking myself to this vertical anchor within, I explored the possibilities of helping other bodies, other physical persons, creating their own harmony, whatever may be their sexual, social or racial identity, and this in turn has opened me to a more conscious future, to an adventure filled with presence…; it is like a lode of diamond sweetness, an ever pure and live flow full of infinity…” And Gomat , what does he say to us?: “ My people descended from one of the last oral traditions and we were all engaged in a sort of permanent itinerant theatre and in our travels mingled with many various practices and techniques of expression and, without realizing it, I was learning at once history as well as dance, mime and combat, the telling of stories as well as the art of diplomacy, how to reach anyone, how to communicate…; in this milieu, as a result of constant proximity, there were accidented births, ill-formed or handicapped bodies which one had to somehow integrate; but these conditions have also given me the measure of the egoism that rules men‟s e xistence, at least in their great majority and most of the time;

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