{"id":1102,"date":"2013-01-18T18:54:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T02:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2014-11-24T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T17:05:25","slug":"aux-skippers-du-vendee-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Aux skippers du Vend\u00e9e Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sailor, you will always love the sea,
\nmirror in whose fathomless roll
\nyou contemplate your surging soul,
\nitself a gulf of contingency.<\/p>\n

Homme libre, toujours tu ch\u00e9riras la mer!<\/em>
\nLa mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton \u00e2me\u00a0<\/em>
\nDans le d\u00e9roulement infini de sa lame,\u00a0<\/em>
\nEt ton esprit n\u2019est pas un gouffre moins amer.<\/em>
\n(< Baudelaire)<\/p>\n

Photo de Tanguy De Lamotte, Initiatives coeur<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Since early November I\u2019ve been following the daily reports of the Vend\u00e9e Globe solo yacht race around the globe.<\/p>\n

Why, I have asked myself repeatedly, are these videos and short prose descriptions of the race and the course so packed with emotion for me? There is surely more here than some residual boyish fascination with the sea and adventure and travel. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!<\/p>\n

Here is a tentative first answer: there is something utterly anti-modern about the code these men and women live by (yes, there are numerous women in the ranks of solo off-shore sailors). This \u201cchivalric\u201d code turns around a sense of individual honour, self-sufficiency and solidarity among equals who face the same challenges, and are willing to perish for them.<\/p>\n

There is no going back to that code, and there was much wrong with it. You don\u2019t have to be a Marxist to understand what \u201cfeudalism\u201d was all about. And for the record, this is far from a Western thing. It was rife in Asia too, probably why I am so attracted to aikido and the \u201chigh\u201d samurai Japanese tradition.<\/p>\n

Perhaps better now not to theorize this emotion. For another month, I\u2019ll be following these Knights of the Sea as they fight their way back up the Atlantic to their home port in Sables d\u2019Olonne on the west coast of France.<\/p>\n

Ces skippers sont les anti-h\u00e9ros de l\u2019\u00e9poque moderne dans laquelle nous vivons, o\u00f9 nous sommes dans une \u00e8re de communication \u00e0 outrance, de fast-food et o\u00f9 nous consommons tout tr\u00e8s vite. Nous nous lassons des choses, nous sommes en qu\u00eate d\u2019\u00e9motion et de rep\u00e8res. Et ces marins sont de formidables rep\u00e8res. Nous avons toujours des petits signaux, des petits voyants qui nous permettent de nous raccrocher \u00e0 des vraies valeurs et celles-ci en font partie.\u00a0<\/em>(Emmanuel Petit, tir\u00e9 du site)<\/p>\n

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  Sailor, you will always love the sea, mirror in whose fathomless roll you contemplate your surging soul, itself a gulf of contingency. Homme libre, toujours tu ch\u00e9riras la mer! La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton \u00e2me\u00a0 Dans le d\u00e9roulement infini de sa lame,\u00a0 Et ton esprit n\u2019est pas un gouffre moins amer. … <\/p>\n

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