"Man is a foreign body whose centre of gravity is not in himself. Our soul is transitive. It needs an object that affects it, as its direct object. This is the gravest of all relationships (not of having but of being)."
Francis Ponge, cited in Robert Dumas, Tratado da Árvore: Ensaio de Uma Filosofia Ocidental, trans. by Maria Jorge V. de Figueiredo (Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007), p. 18. [translated by DK from the Portuguese translation. And many thanks to Vítor for this wonderful reading suggestion.]
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