Pebble Monologue

"Poor pebble
Ignored by sculpture, architecture, mosaic and jewellery
It dates from the beginning of the planet, perhaps even from another star
Warped by space, like the stigmata of its terrible fall
It per-dates man, and man has not embodies it in his art or history
He did not manufacture it and thus decide its place
The pebble perpetuates nothing more than its own memory
Obviously, minerals and neither independent nor sensitive
Thats why it takes so much to stir them
The heat of a blowtorch, for instance, or an electric arc...
...earthquakes, volcanoes, or aeons of time..."

From the 1967 film Week End by Godard