Eh oui, je rêve...la vie est un rêve. - Eugène Ionesco

But History was against me. History is right, objectively speaking. I'm just a historical dead end. I hope at least that my fate will serve as an example to you all and to posterity.

Ce matin, quand tu t'es regardé dans la glace tu ne t'es pas vu.
C'est parce que je n'étais pas encore là. (IX, 59)

We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of the world. Without a fresh virginity of mind, without a new and healthy awareness of existential reality, there can be no theatre and no art either; the real must be in a way dislocated, before it can be re-integrated.