Alfred JARRY - Rare Signed Autograph Manuscript - "Speculations" - 8 pages. 1901

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Alfred JARRY - Rare Signed Autograph Manuscript - "Speculations" - 8 pages. 1901:
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Alfred JARRY (1873.1907)

Signed Autograph Manuscript - Speculation.

Eight pages in-4° from a notebook.

Blue pencil typographer directions.

Slnd [1901]

Very rare Jarry’s first draft manuscript, with crossings and corrections, of a chronicle of La Candelle verte titled " Speculations " and containing three texts: " L'Abbé Bruneau. - Les Arbres français. -Instant Language. »

Great and fun Jarry 'speculations' - published in No. 192 of La Revue blanche du 1er June 1901 – demonstrating by the absurd the aberrations of the judicial system and the justice of the future ("L’abbé Bruneau); the stupidity of "nationalist" considerations of naturalism (French trees); and the unforeseen and ridiculous disadvantages of universal language (Instant language).

L’abbé Bruneau. Martyr and victim of the secret of confession too inviolate, or murderer? Assassin, the newspapers say, since the person who allegedly made revelations at the item of death wasn’t dead. A little more, we would have read: Assassin, because the victim didn’t die. Finally, it appears that there is now evidence that "Abbé Bruneau" did commit the crime, and that there was no "judicial error." It’s not yet very used to thinking that there’s always miscarriage of justice. It’s not impossible that in a few dozen centuries’ time, with the opinion becoming publicly accepted that virtues and crimes are social and arbitrary things, one will understand that there’s only one miscarriage of justice as serious as convicting an innocent man: it’s convicting a man our fashions call guilty.” Crime or good deeds will, in these utopian times, be only different ways of living honest people. Thus, it will be said, for the convenience of language and to avoid easy confusion: "Mr. X..., the honest man who founded a prize of virtue; Mr. X..., the honest man who founded a prize of virtue; Mr. Y..., the honest man who murdered an old lady." »

French trees. The "Section de la Patrie française du quartier de Plaisance" addresses various "wishes" to "Gentlemen French nationalist municipal councillors of the City of Paris". By what aberration they subjected them to us at the same time, that’s what the human mind is powerless to explain. The members of the so-called Section were especially moved by the report, tabled in April, by Mr. Bouvard, chief architect of the Paris works, "where it is a question, first, of transforming the Champ-de-Mars into a park, surrounded by hotels, which would extend as far as the Seine and join the current Trocadero gardens". " Their patriotism revolted at the idea of seeing "those hotels to be built" connected by an Italian-style gallery! "And they declare that it would be "useful and moral, as well as pleasant, to put trees whose species is native to France" in the transformed Champ-de-Mars."

We won’t discuss the morality or usefulness of this project, but its approval or rather the possibility of realizing it: to admit, in fact, only trees whose species is native to France, there won’t be Champ-de-Mars in the future. no trees. Because if one reviews the various trees that usually line public promenades, one will have to eliminate:

The plane tree (platanus acerifolia), native to Mediterranean Asia and a variety found in North America;"

Le marronnier (æsculus hippocastanum), whose full name is, as is known: Indian chestnut tree;

Elm (ulmus campestris), widespread throughout Europe;

Lime tree (tilia sylvestris), which grows in Holland, Poland, Canada and Hungary, and should be referred to as the German word " Linde when you want to talk about its shading, reserving the French word when using its herbal tea;

The cedar of Lebanon, this Jew;

The gas candelabra: the French refused, in fact, the lighting gas proposed by their compatriot, the "engineer Lebon", and accepted it only imported by the "English Taylor". The candelabra’s hollow column is of Etruscan origin;

The telegraph pole: the first idea for the electric telegraph came from Munich's Soemmering;

The gallows: fallen into disuse everywhere, it’s now naturalized English;

The family trees of French citizens, of various strains as well as exotic, and the oldest of which is Germanic."

We will hardly be able to see its leaves spread, in the vast shallow and desolate space of the Champ-de-Mars, and even if countries across the ocean don’t dispute it with us, only the Tree of Liberty… in freedom.”

Instant language. Haute-Savoie MPs are petitioning this month at the Chamber’s office for the organization in Paris of a first model school of "instant language". It’s a universal alphabet that would summarize all the world’s alphabets into 45 ordinary letters, ushering in a unique spelling of the ultimate simplicity for all languages. The no less universal principles of instant language are: "One letter for each sound; the same sound reproduced by the same letter in every language it is encountered."

"One letter for each sound" implies, if we understand correctly, as many letters as sounds; according to this method, in French, instead of five simple vowels, their combination in diphthongs, and their long or short accents, there would be at least fifteen." A very small number of these fifteen letters (which should be invented, since you want "isolated" letters) could be used to spell other languages. We would need, instead of the 'i and the 'u, currently common to several languages, new characters for the 'aï, le iou and the 'eu of the English, the or and the 'u of Germans…Millions and billions of savings, say the leaflets: yes, it would take a billion letters.

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