...Just then, one of the two wires broke:
--Stop work! I yelled at them, I'm falling! We were five hundred meters from the ground.
--Patience, they replied, you were born to fall. We had to avoid walking on the wings of the machine. I felt them, though, resisting under me.
--But if I fall, I cried, I knew I couldn't fly. And i felt that everything was cracking.
A cry: "Send the lancets!"
And immediately I imagined my legs sliced by lasso, the airplane leaving my feet and myself suspended in the emptiness, with my feet on the ceiling. I never knew if it had happened.
--Stop work! I yelled at them, I'm falling! We were five hundred meters from the ground.
--Patience, they replied, you were born to fall. We had to avoid walking on the wings of the machine. I felt them, though, resisting under me.
--But if I fall, I cried, I knew I couldn't fly. And i felt that everything was cracking.
A cry: "Send the lancets!"
And immediately I imagined my legs sliced by lasso, the airplane leaving my feet and myself suspended in the emptiness, with my feet on the ceiling. I never knew if it had happened.
(A.Artaud)
