Mathias Énard

La historia de la natación se remonta a la Prehistoria. Se han descubierto pinturas sobre natación de la Edad de Piedra de hace 7.500 años y las primeras referencias escritas datan del 2.000 a. C.

Piscine comes from the Latin ‘piscis’: a well for fish.

Swimming is learning to be horizontal

Walking is learning to be vertical.

Swimmers paint in the water with their hands.

They looked at the world from the bottom of the pool: a rectangle in the sky.

I defend the right to always be oneself.

I defend the right to not always be oneself.

—Why do you always look to the past? —Because it is what I have before me.

Although you can see her there, she has been gone a long time.