Leaving your home is no longer obvious, sharing time with others has become difficult: it is therefore imperative to nourish yourself with everything that makes life meaningful, the essential and the superfluous.
But who defines the essential and who defines the superfluous?
And isn't the essential of the one the superfluous of the other?
Are caviar and foie gras essential?
No doubt since they can continue to be sold.
While the books of Patrick Modiano, Pascal Bruckner or François Cheng are superfluous since the bookstores are closed.
But we can order them by “click and collect”, they retort (in this contemporary “French” which sacrifices the language, probably superfluous too, when withdrawal in store would be just as clear): it is forgetting the pleasure of sniffing books, leafing through them, being surprised by a title between two piles, feeling the desire to read.
But then, what is essential?
Buying the book or choosing it lovingly?
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