To that question so dear to the old explorers — which creatures live on deserted islands? - one could only answer: human beings live there already, but uncommon humans, a prototype, a man who would almost be a god, woman who would be a goddess, a great amnesiac, a pure Artist, a consciousness of Earth and Ocean, an enormous hurricane, a beautiful witch, a statue from the Easter Islands. There you have a human being who precedes himself. Dreams of a society which makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. Walking is perhaps - mythologically - the most trivial, hence the most human gesture. Human history: a narrative of contingencies, not necessities. []