Author: Xavier-Marie Bonnot

Cites

• C. G. Jung (1)
  • IN: The First Man (2010) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: "But by what myth does man live nowadays? "The Christian myth, possibly." "Do you live it?" I asked myself. "If I am truthful the answer is no. It is not what I live by." "So we no longer live by myth?" "Apparently not." "What is your myth then -- the myth by which you lived?"
    FROM: Memories, Dreams, Reflections, (1962), Book, Switzerland
• Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson (1)
  • IN: The voice of the Spirits (2010) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: They were not living beings. We thought they must be our ancestors, come back from the land of the dead. At that time we knew nothing of the outside world. We thought we were the only people alive. We believed our ancestors had gone over there, turned white and come back as spirits. That was how we explained the White Man. Our dead has returned.
    FROM: "First Contact" by Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson, Account of an indigenous person from New Guinea describing his first encounter with a white man, (1983), [NA], Australia