Scenario Pour un Film

The Starry Heavens

It seemed to me that I was looking at the form and pattern of a thought, placed for the first time in finite space. Here space itself truly spoke, dreamed, and gave birth to temporal forms. Expectancy, doubt, concentration, all were visible things. With my own eye I could see silences that had assumed bodily shapes. Inappreciable instants became clearly visible: the fraction of a second during which an idea flashes into being and dies away; atoms of time that serve as the germs of infinite consequences lasting through psychological centuries—at last these appeared as beings, each surrounded with a palpable emptiness.…there in the same void with them, like some new form of matter arranged in systems or masses or trailing lines, coexisted the Word!

Paul Valéry. Mallarmé’s “Un Coup de Dés”.