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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

To walk is to lack a place.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.