Les Lois de l’hospitalité remix(for accidental communication)

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Les Lois de l'hospitalité remix (for accidental communication)

…the master of this house herewith invites the stranger to penetrate to the source of all substances beyond the realm of all accident,
he inaugurates a substantial relationship between himself and the stranger, which will be not a relative relationship but an absolute one,
as though, the master becoming one with the stranger, his relationship with you who have just set foot here were now but a relationship of one with oneself.

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The master of this house, having no greater nor more pressing concern than to shed the warmth of his joy at evening upon whomever comes to dine at his table and rest under his roof from a day’s wearying travel, waits anxiously at the gate for the stranger he will see appear like a liberator upon the horizon.

This is why the master will be grateful in advance to anybody who, rather than considering hospitality as an accident in the souls of him and of her who offer it, shall take it as the very essence of the host and hostess, the stranger in his guest’s capacity partaking this essence.

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At the start the two are but isolated substances, between them there is none but accidental communication: you who believe yourself far from home in the home of someone you believe to be at home, you bring merely the accidents of your substance, such accidents as conspire to make a stranger of you, to him who bids you avail yourself of all that makes a merely accidental host of him.
To this end the host actualizes himself in the guest; or, if you prefer, he actualizes a possibility of the guest, just as you, the guest, actualize a possibility of the host.

For with the stranger he welcomes, the master of the house seeks a relationship that is no longer accidental, but essential.

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piece
for piano and tapes

http://soundcloud.com/qo1/lesloisdelhospitalite

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