Nothing
Imagine if you can, what it is like to have no possessions at all. Nothing. Very few people are able to imagine such a thing, to have nothing at all. Let us, you and I, try to imagine something a hundred times harder. Not just to have nothing at all, but when there was nothing at all. The very beginning of time. The dawn of history. Page one. Nothing at all. The Earth itself, without fauna. Void. Only emptiness. Formless. A dark endless waste of water. No living thing, no plant, no tree, no bird, no animal. Nothing. This is before people. Before anything at all. A void. Sitting silent. Still. And then, nothing.
Lemon Jelly – Page One
J’adore ce morceau. Pas simplement parce que quand je l’écoute j’ai l’impression de flotter dans la vide sidéral, mais aussi parce qu’à chaque fois il me fait réfléchir. Je ferme les yeux, je me concentre. Je tente d’imaginer l’univers avant. Avant nous. Avant l’apparition de la vie sur Terre. Et c’est vraiment difficile de s’imaginer un monde dans lequel il n’y aurait rien. Rien du tout. Page un.