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Things that happen where nothing happens

2023-06-04T10:32:53.017Z

Highlights: For some, that arrival will be a comeback. For others, the beginning of an adventure, a discovery. It is a non-place, as defined by Marc Augé. A place where nothing happens, because those who pass are and are not at the same time. Someone starts their vacation, another has just left them behind, a couple prepares to enjoy their honeymoon. A man travels with very little luggage, talks hurriedly on the phone; A work emergency worries him. A woman has just disembarked, a pause between one flight and another, between one destination and another.


For some, that arrival will be a comeback. For others, the beginning of an adventure, a discovery.


It is a non-place, as defined by Marc Augé. A place of passage; Perhaps the place of passage par excellence. A place where nothing happens, because those who pass are and are not at the same time. They're leaving, they're in transit, they're moving from one place to another. They wait, everyone who passes by waits. They hope to leave that place to reach another.

For some, that arrival will be a comeback. For others, the beginning of an adventure, a discovery. So are airports, places where you see life go by, or guess. Someone starts their vacation, another has just left them behind, a couple prepares to enjoy their honeymoon. A man travels with very little luggage, talks hurriedly on the phone; A work emergency worries him.

A woman has just disembarked, a pause between one flight and another, between one destination and another. It is the first time he arrives at that airport without any valid reason to do so. A simple combination of work trip, chance and schedules deposited her there, in that exact place that witnessed so many welcomes and goodbyes. Until, a few years ago, the farewell would be definitive. Since then there is no one to visit there.

That house that was his other place in the world closed its doors. Or not, but nothing will be the same. He prefers not to peek into the alienation of what was once a good refuge, a second home. She has many hours ahead of her until she gets on that plane that will return her to her destination of origin. They ask him why he does not take advantage and leave, instead of accumulating a very long wait among people who pass in a hurry, dragging suitcases and dreams, with impatient boys, of easy boredom.

Or even sitting in the soft armchairs of a reserved room that helps to nuance the dead time. Why not take advantage and go for a walk? He doesn't know, he doesn't want to, he can't.

There are pains that are cried at once; Others, on the other hand, leave crying little by little. How long does crying last? How to know. Maybe, a lifetime. An airport is a non-place. Things also happen in places that are not.

Source: clarin

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