At the end of the manuscript
I have finished writing a book.
After months spent returning to the same pages, doubting, starting again, the manuscript is finally there, completed.
I wanted to say a word about it here, simply, without making too much of it.
A long-haul endeavour
Writing a book is nothing like a sudden inspiration, at least not for me.
It is above all time, patience, and many passages that one ends up cutting.
It was necessary to accept not saying everything, to set aside ideas to which I was attached, so that the whole would hold together.
What it is about
This manuscript is entitled “La Sageocratie”.
It is a reflection, among other possible ones, on the way we decide together and on the place that wisdom could hold within that process.
I make no claim in it to holding a ready-made solution. I propose questions, a few leads, and a certain way of looking at things.
Why speak of it now
Finishing a text means accepting to let it go.
As long as one keeps it to oneself, one can still correct it indefinitely. At some point, one must stop.
Writing these few lines here is a way of marking this passage: the moment when a project leaves the desk to exist elsewhere.
What follows
I do not yet know exactly what form publication will take, nor when.
These steps take time, and I prefer to approach them without haste.
In the meantime, I continue to write here, at the same quiet pace as before.
Conclusion
Finishing a manuscript does not resolve anything in itself.
But it is a stage, and it seemed right to share it simply with those who read me.
Yannick Costechareyre