I want to go back to paradise. Where is paradise? Thousands of books have been written about the place where the terrestrial paradise could have been at the beginning of time. Bloody episodes are associated with the different sites consecrated as such. Memory transfigures them with the collaboration of linguistic narratives. Those who believe they have become fully human make a pilgrimage to those places whose ancient names are incomprehensible to them. They arrive. They reinsert in their own past those landscapes and those lights that language has separated from nature. They celebrate that crisis on the spot.”

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“Where is Eden located? The earthly paradise is the above made place. The above is not the site of origin, it is space as pre-original. In that sense, the space of Eden is not in space. Eden defines the space prior to the exit of the body into external space. It is the time before space. It is not the space that is to the East of space, it is the space that was in the shadow of space, within the first world. There is a fragment of the uterus above the vulva where the embryo is housed, where the embryo curls up, a point that forms a bag and grows in volume until it becomes space.”

Pascal Quignard