Finally, the door is ajar! The air stream is still light, the horizon cluttered with uncertainties, the "crest line" still narrow, but the light of freedom shines in the distance. It was time. We do not reduce the life of a man, of a country, to physiological needs alone. Otherwise, it dries up. The Sibyl of Cumes had gotten Apollo to live as many years as one can hold grains of sand in one hand. She ended up moping in a cage. "What do you want?" They asked him. "I want to die",she replied. Confined, body and mind eventually retract. Life stored in a screen, a fridge, a derogatory certificate fades. It is through movement, the riches of friendship, the resources of work, the treasures of discovery, conversation, the unexpected, the virtues of effort, that it is deployed.
A "learning and cultural" summer , as recommended by the President of the Republic? A "new world", as Nicolas Hulot draws it?
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