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.But justice? Periodically, some trial, and notnecessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's The Outsider, comesDominici, or the Triumph of Literatureto remind you that the Law is always prepared to lend you a sparebrain in order to condemn you without remorse, and that, likeCorneille, it depicts you as you should be, and not as you are.The whole Dominici trial * was enacted according to a certain ideaThis official visit of justice to the world of the accused is madeof psychology, which happens to be, as luck would have it, that ofpossible thanks to an intermediate myth which is always usedthe Literature of the bourgeois Establishment.Since materialabundantly by all official institutions, whether they are the Assizesevidence was uncertain or contradictory, one had to resort toor the periodicals of literary sects: the transparence andevidence of a mental kind; and where could one find it, except inuniversality of language.The Presiding judge of the Assizes, whothe very mentality of the accusers? The motives and sequence ofreads Le Figaro, has obviously no scruples in exchanging wordsactions were therefore reconstituted off-hand but without a shadowwith the old 'uneducated' goatherd.Do they not have in commonof a doubt; in the manner of those archaeologists who go andthe same language, and the clearest there is, French? O wonderfulgather old stones all over the excavation site and with their cement,self-assurance of classical education, in which shepherds, withoutmodern as it is, erect a delicate wayside altar of Sesostris, or else,embarrassment, converse with judges! But here again, behind thewho reconstitute a religion which has been dead for two thousandprestigious (and grotesque) morality of Latin translations andyears by drawing on the ancient fund of universal wisdom, whichessays in French, what is at stake is the head of a man.is in fact nothing but their own brand of wisdom, elaborated in theschools of the Third Republic.And yet the disparity of both languages, their impenetrability toeach other, have been stressed by a few journalists, and Giono hasThe same applies to the 'psychology' of old Dominici.Is it reallygiven numerous examples of this in his accounts of the trial.Theirhis? No one knows.But one can be sure that it is indeed that of theremarks show that there is no need to imagine mysterious barriers,Presiding Judge of the Assizes or the Public Prosecutor.Do theseKafka-like misunderstandings.No: syntax, vocabulary, most of thetwo mentalities, that of the old peasant from the Alps and that ofelementary, analytical materials of language grope blindly withoutthe judiciary, function in the same way? Nothing is less likely.Andever touching, but no one has any qualms about it ('tes-vous allyet it is in the name of a 'universal' psychology that old Dominiciau pont? - Alle? il n'y a pas d'alle, je le sais, j'y suis t').*has been condemned: descending from the charming empyrean ofNaturally, everyone pretends to believe that it is the officialbourgeois novels and essentialist psychology, Literature has justlanguage which is common sense, that of Dominici being only onecondemned a man to the guillotine.Listen to the Public Prosecutor:of its ethnological varieties, picturesque in its poverty.And yet,'Sir Jack Drummond, I told you, was afraid.But he knows that inthis language of the president is just as peculiar, laden as it is withthe end the best may to defend oneself is to attack.So he throwsunreal cliches; it is a language for school essays, not for a concretehimself on this fierce-looking man and takes the old man by thepsychology (but perhaps it is unavoidable for most men, alas, tothroat.Not a word is spoken.But to Gaston Dominici, the simplehave the psychology of the language which they have been taught).fact that someone should want to hold him down by both shouldersThese are in actual fact two particular uses of language whichis unthinkable.It was physically impossible for him to bear thisconfront each other.But one of them has honours, law and force onstrength which was suddenly pitted against him.' This is credibleits side.like the temple of Sesostris, like the Literature of M.Genevoix.Only, to base archaeology or the novel on a 'Why not?' does not43 44 And this 'universal' language comes just at the right time to lend a of oratory, it is the whole of classical rhetoric which accuses thenew strength to the psychology of the masters: it allows it always old shepherd here
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