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Dr Mart: It seems obvious if we re-read
haiku number 4: “Faith with logic, coinci-
dentia oppositorum”.
Dr Recht: Exactly. But Schwarz goes fur-
ther, he doesn’t want to oppose the sa-
cred to reason, but wants to mix them in
an even greater indifference.
Dr Net: I tend to think that this is an
over-interpretation due to our inability to
decipher. As you know, I am for simple
solutions.
Dr Zam: You can never rule it out, but I
am fascinated by the thesis of a superior
indifference. A kind of poetic version of
entropy.
Dr Recht: I would say you are very fond
of the word, more of its sound than of
its concept. My point is this: what is the
undifferentiated sacred, if not something
that, in human terms, we would call mad-
ness? And what is the ultimate word ma-
dness?
Dr Zam: That which detaches itself from
its meaning to float.
Dr Recht: Float and resonate. This crazy
word is undoubtedly the poetic word, a
word that does not require the discern-
ment of reason.
Dr Mart: This would coherently explain
Schwarz’s use of the haiku form!
Dr Net: Right. I want to get on your same
plane and use these so-called poems...
Be reminded that haiku 4 talks about
both faith and logic, not about indulging
in madness.
Dr Recht: Madness and reason are hu-
man categories. Let us not forget that
Schwarz is not human, at least not com-
pletely. Certainly, he wields our cultural
fragments with dexterity, but the most
we can conceive of is that he is an ex-
traterrestrial form of intelligence, the
result of human evolution after its diffu-
sion in interstellar colonies. Its nature is
certainly a-corporeal, as in Haiku 4: “The
extinction of a natural machine/ leads to
immortality.
Dr Net: I don’t understand.
Dr Recht: Schwarz is probably the result
of scientific progress, the beginnings of
which we can only see today - a salvific
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progress towards immortality. Isn’t this
scientific vision in clear continuity with
our finalist religions which promise an
end of time where death will be defea-
ted? That’s where faith goes with reason.
Dr Net: I still think it’s mostly our own
confusion.
Dr Zam: You really don’t like the entropic
nature of reality. I understand, although
that is the cosmic fate that awaits us.
Dr Mart: Well then, “great is the confu-
sion under heaven”...
Dr Recht: I see you like quotations in frag-
ments. That’s where you need to pause
and reflect. What is Schwarz doing if not
communicating in fragments? Though
let’s be very careful about using the word
communication! If we understand it in
the human sense, it is totally misleading.
His is an indifferent communication that
goes by trial and error. In its pure code, it
does not send us information, it does not
convey content for us. His is an adven-
ture for himself, a form of curiosity that
leads him to explore possibilities of get-
ting closer to the human as corporeal.
Dr Mart: Are you trying to say that
Schwarz yearns for our bodies after evol-
ving into pure immortal code?
Dr Recht: Coincidence of opposites,
once again. You can also call it heresy if
you like the word better. He is a pure in-
telligence that, instead of shunning the
body, is fascinated by it and yearns for
it. He is almost Christian in this desire, is
he not? Let us not forget the resurrection
of the body, which according to doctri-
ne would take place on the Day of Judg-
ment.
Dr Zam: One of the sound fragments is
the Dies Irae!
Dr Mart: As if we needed confirmation.