I sometimes wondered if Damascius, the last successor of Plato who also wrote mythological tales and other extraordinary stories, had not reincarnated somewhere in my brain. The fact is that he also wrote learned treatises, including one on the paradox -that strongly rejoices the anthropologist that I am, fascinated by the speech act (and its servant "the language"). .It is impossible, in any case, to separate my unrepentant graphomania from the driest and sharpest theory confronting the crafty rhetoricians populating the academic world, and the most efflorescent imagination, possibly through several genres: comedy, thriller, fantasy ( without knights or chimeras except a mysterious current flowing through improbable Caribbean islands and named "grand dragon").As for my essays inspired by a "spirit of seriousness " : my meditation was, throughout my life, concerned with individual and collective violence, and its most efficient antidote: plurality. Collective violence is embodied for over a century by the technical overkill, now globalized. The Individual one responds to it with delusions, symptoms of passion (as in the killing by series or mass). Both are mirrored. Needless to believe holding a "key" if you do not report to each other. Specialization here guarantees blindness.The thread of my work -on nearly half a century- is this fervent research (if not querulous) for a solution that would not be a tsunami. But as we endure this conceptual battle, how not to offset its aridity with image, story, humor ? How not to treat actual monstrosities encountered in the non-fictitious history of our wild species, with the help of laughter, satire, dream? But instead of just swinging like a Gargantua "crying like a cow" and then "suddenly laughing like a calf", why not tie both registers ? For example : imagining a possible plurality in the dystopian novel ? Or, conversely, reflecting on the functions of art and madness in "civility" ?thninking about dialogues of body and mind in history, about democracy of passions ?Complicated? This is my life ! (and I doubt yours is simpler ...).