13 April

“For millennia we have been seeking the secret of the Pyramids...one Indo-European civilization and one Semitic one loved the light, Greece and Israel, developed to revelation by the Word; one Semitic civilization and one Indo-European one loved the darkness: Egypt and Rome bury in stone and bind tightly...From Athens and Jerusalem, we have learned, breath, spirit, voice, and logos, writing and the lifting of veils, the knowledge revealed by speech or texts; from Rome and Egypt, we still don’t know the discreet act of burying, concealing, silence and blackness, the closed box, the object... Our knowledge arises from the day and the night, from transparency and opacity, from manifestation and secrecy. We only recognize half our knowledge; we only assess a half-knowledge. What remains is the black, the enveloped, the object-related...The secret of Rome or that of the Pyramids is kept well by knowledge itself. The more multiple treasures are pulled out of the tombs so as to make them shimmer beneath the sun, the less is known.“ Michel Serres, Statues.