You can’t Persil-schein your German layers that easily meine Liebe. Let’s face it you destroy. All that suffering stuff you enjoy it nicht wahr nicht wahr? Aber man achtet nicht darauf. As if languages loved each other beneath their own façades, despite alles was man denkt darüber davon dazu. Then acquires alles a broken up quality, die hat der charm of my clever sweet, my deutsche Mädchen-goddess, the gestures and the actions all postponed while first die Dinge und die Personen kommen. Aber voaus und woein kommen die Personen?
Si les psychologues ont fait de grand progrès dans l’étude de la mémoire et de ses diverses composantes, telles que l’enregistrement such as recording and conservation, on sait par contre bien peu sur le plan purement descriptif de ce qui se produit physiologiquement au niveau cérébral, of the modifications in the nervous tissue through which a person retains events which affect subsequent behaviour. For 2500 years since Plato on propose des images et des concepts such as wax tablets, the tracks of memory, the synaptic recording, the biochemical engraving. Mais cependant un médecin anglais Gomulicki, studying in 1953 could even then deplore the fact that not one of these terms had any real relation either with the general problem, or with any one of the known facts. How far have we progressed since then down through the earphones into the nervous tissue in French and out almost unretained by any molecules affecting subsequent behaviour in simultaneous German. Or down into the earphones over Sandra’s long lank rich auburn hair and out affecting no memory at all in sheer youth and simultaneous English.
Mesdames messieurs je vais vous parler for the twenty minutes at my disposal, de l’hypothèse concernant les relations ARN, ADN et la mémoire, hypothèse certes séduisante et au goût du jour, mais qui manque de bases très solides. Fashionable because DNA and RNA, the molecules which play a key role in protein synthesis, valent un prix Nobel de médecine every few years for those who work on them. Séduisante à plus d’un titre cependant. Mais il semble qu’un des éléments de séduction vient un peu de ce qu’on joue sur les mots, speaking of a code retained by DNA and RNA, alors qu’on n’emploie pas ce terme pour d’autres molécules — tout simplement parceque I’ARN et l’ADN interviennent en matière de code génétique. Obviously, if we can describe everything that happens in a living organism — including memory — in chemical terms, one or several types of molecules must encode the ideas and the remembered facts. But why should we identify these code-molecules of memory with those of the genetic code?
L’hypothèse veut que si les stimulus de l’environnement, in other words, events, transformed into electrical impulses, modified the sequence of bases in a particulier RNA, this would lead to modifications of structure in the cell containing the RNA and would permanently alter the physical features of the cell, since it synthetises the proteins en fonction des ARN qu’elle contient. This would leave a trace.
The terminology worked up in advance pours smoothly down into the mouthpiece with absolute calm out of the nervous tissue making the protein available to those who desperately need it, spinning to yield products which when properly flavoured closely simulate common foods contra bona indissolubilitatis et prolis. The signature on the deed however leaves no trace of regret for il piccolo chalet in Wiltshire where stones talk walk make semblance of love have fun until they come to a standstill. The yellow curtains the pelmet the carpets and the biddy remain as fittings and fixtures part and parcel of what a shame I’ll miss you love. Not that you came here much lately but then I suppose we all settle for the land of our birth in the end don’t we. Why don’t you come and have a farewell drink with me and my Tom down at the local love where they all sit in a circle transfixed by the blue screen flickering out the local variation in the presentation of opposite viewpoints on every aspect of an instant world through faceless men who have no doubt acquired faces for them as their archpriests of exploding bombs exploding into Brighter than Bright Cleaner than Clean.
The seductive hypothesis whose seductive element lies in the fact that we play on words and speak of codes, postulates that the stimulus of environment modifies the sequence of bases, leading to the modification of the code within a cell within a body within a box within a village within a wooded area in an alien land. This would leave a trace. So that the child sits at the kitchen table facing a paintbox and dark water in a glass-jar plus a mess of coloured blobs lines smudges on a rectangular sheet of paper and bursts into tears. Mais quoi alors? Pourquoi pleures-tu?
— J’veux peindre.
— Alors peins.
— Mais j’sais pas peindre.
— Alors, ne peins pas.
— Mais j’veux peindre.
— Ah tu m’agaces. Décide-toi. Tu peins ou tu n’peins pas. De toute façon, reste tranquille.
— Und alles ROTE auf der Karte, das gehört ENGland.
The schoolmaster glares round the class, looking for a scapegoat perhaps.
— Und alles GRÜNE auf der Karte, das gehört FRANKreich.
The gangling girl in pigtails grows cold and pale even as a girl she always did look pale, uninteresting, then suddenly hot and flushed as the whole class follows the stony glare at the französische Mädchen responsible for the green on the map slightly deeper than the yellowish green vastness of the Soviet Republics right up to Siberia or for that matter Brazil and then again not quite so bright as the bright green United States of America together with Alaska beyond the crimson flush of Canada the pale pink of Greenland (pink?) and responsible also no doubt for the dark and pale das ROTE on account of the Entente Cordiale.
— Der Fuehrer aber hat geschrieben that the gangling girl released from stony glares feels homesick longs for was FRANKreich gehört and stares at the squarish green shape beneath the crimson old lady in a motorcar-driving position which represents apparently ENGland. The crimson old lady sits with legs forward on a blue space dented by a spoke sticking out of the green squarish shape much bigger than her and doesn’t quite hold a crimson haired pink baby like a teddybear who also sits with his legs and arms forward leaning back on a blue space dented by the arms of the old lady unless perhaps he represents a peculiar steering wheel she doesn’t quite hold. Or a doll in a pram. For das deutsche Volk, virile, numerous, hard-working, brave as proved over and over again by history ever since Otto I whose victory on the Lech in 955 finally liberated his country from the Magyar pest, das deutsche Volk no longer has enough Lebensraum. Look now at this map of Europe in the time of Otto. The Holy Roman Empire in its infancy. Das erste Deutsche Reich. Saxony up here. Lotharingia there. Franconia Swabia Bayern you all know Bayern, Karinthia Bohemia Moravia surrounded by a thick black line make up a sort of flying dog with paws curled down into Trieste and the kingdom of Italy as far as below Rome in dotted lines bring the hind legs funnily forward like a flying dog about to land along the Adriatic.
Das erste Deutsche Reich. Und später it expanded further, into the Northern Marches and the March of Austria, peacefully into Pomerania and beyond as I shall tell you next week. And later still the great emperor Friedrich Barbarossa went far down into Italy and eventually established, by the marriage of his son Henry to Constance of Sicily, the Hohenstaufen dynasty right down here. But the popes put a stop to that. As they always did, from Henry IV’s brave penance in mid-winter to Barbarossa’s meeting with Alexander III in Venice on July 24th 1177, commemorated by three red marble slabs in the porch of St. Mark’s where the Emperor knelt to receive the kiss of peace, conceding however, no point of vital substance. But the popes have no power today. France and England have, backed of course by America. I want you now to compare even this map with the modern map. You can see how das deutsche Volk virile numerous and brave has suffered at the hands of the European powers and now no longer has enough Lebensraum.