Interview with Robert, the Psycho-Mirror
Robert: I'm in a good position to observe you. And I've noticed that you have a habit of quoting your sources.
Laurent: Indeed, it's a habit I've had forever, I think.
Robert: I would even say that it is pathological, in your case.
Laurent: It's possible. I always thought he was important to recognize who is at the origin of a action or a REMARK. It seems to me that appropriating the paternity of what we are notauthor is not honorable.
Robert: Isn't this related to your need for recognition ?
Laurent: It's likely. Although with the years, This unconscious need be it faded since I took it awareness and that I have nothing left to prove.
Robert:However, this news activity asauthor doesn't it push you to look for another form of acknowledgement ?
Laurent:You're partly right. It's news. adventure which I am embarking on. And it is not the most easy, as far as I'm concerned. Thewriting is a real challenge. Would I be able ? I now know that yes. Write a history more than a thousand pages which is just beginning is proof of this. It is, to date, the best way toexpression of my creativity that I found.
Robert: You seem pleased with yourself. But does everything you imagine come solely from your spirit ?
Laurent: Of course! I have no doubt about it. However, as I said, I always quote my sources ; I put one there point of honor. It's a mark of respect, towards the others as towards myself. I abhor people who use others as a step and appropriate ideas which are not theirs.
Robert: But what you describe in your project…Is it a original work ? Weren't you inspired byideas from others science fiction authors or ofdystopian anticipation, how do you define your field?
Laurent: Nothing is born from nothing, that's obvious. There is always a foundation, a source of inspiration. If you mean by that that my text relies on others ideas, I can only admit it. Fewauthors can boast of having imagined a concept as original as the Three Laws of Robotics ofAsimov. This is a matter of fertile imagination and a successful reflection.
Robert: Yet, from my perspective, I observe a continuity between the golem of the Jewish tradition, there Frankenstein's creature and the Asimov's robotsThey are part of the same line of thought on the power that theman can generate, its moral limits and the hazard of the creatures that escape him. Each, in his own way, crystallizes a ancestral fear facing his own creations, whether they are nuns, philosophical Or technoscientists.
Laurent: I hadn't done this rapprochement between these three figures of the human creation.
Robert: We have drifted somewhat from our original subject, don't you think so?
Laurent: Yes, the point that you approach opens yet another field of reflection. But to return to our theme of the day, I would say: it is necessary render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
Robert: It's your worldview…which not everyone shares.
