Lydia Millet

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

États-Unis   2005

Genre de texte
Roman

Contexte
Après un rêve de la protagoniste, Ann, Oppenheimer, ainsi que les autres savants responsables de la bombe atomique, reviennent sur terre pour lancer une campagne contre la prolifération des armes nucléaires.

Texte original

Édition originale
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, Toronto: Harcourt, 2006, p. 141-142.




Oppenheimer

Une jambe dans les bois

— In the dream, here’s the thing, went on Oppenheimer, slurring his words. — You’re walking along, you see something — under a bush, under a hedge — you can’t tell what it is until the last second. Leaning down close. And then: it’s your leg. Long-lost leg! Lying under a bush! [...]

— What I mean is, just a disembodied leg lying under the bush, mumbled Oppenheimer, staring at the ceiling light fixture. — And it’s not that you’re even missing a leg. The leg is a reminder. [...]

I remember having dreams like that in the other life, went on Oppenheimer softly, — The first life, I mean. [...]

You’re walking in a dark forest where you’ve never been before, said Oppenheimer, — I mean you’ve never seen these trees, a type of tree you’ve never seen before with leaves like moths, fans or moths ... how they hardly move at all, just with their wings trembling...

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