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Parnet says they are at the final letter, Zed, and Deleuze says, "Just in time!" Parnet says that it's not the Zed of Zorro the Lawman , since Deleuze has expressed throughout the alphabet how much he doesn't like judgment.

It's the Zed of bifurcation, of lightning, it's the letter that one finds in the names of great philosophers: Zen, (tzara) Zarathoustra, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Spinoza, BergZon , and of course, Deleuze. Deleuze laughs, saying she has been very witty with BergZon and

very kind toward Deleuze himself. He considers Zed to be a great letter that establishes a return to A, the fly, the zigging & zagging moves ....the fly ... the Zed, the final word, no word after zigzag. Deleuze thinks it's good to end on this word.

So, he continues, what happens in Zed? He reflects that the Zen is the reverse of Nez , which is also a zigzag. [Deleuze gestures the angle of a nose in the air] Zed as movement, the fly, is perhaps the elementary movement that presided at the creation of the world.

Le PinG Bang!

Deleuze says that he's currently reading a book on the Big Bang, on the creation of the universe, an infinite curving, how it occurred. Deleuze feels that at the origin of things, there's no Big Bang,

there's the Zed which is, in fact, the Zen, the route of the fly. Deleuze says that when he conceives of zigags, he recalls what he said earlier about no universals, but rather aggregates of singularities. He considers how to bring disparate singularities into relationship, or bringing potentials into relationship, to speak in terms of physics. Deleuze says one can imagine a chaos of potentials, so how to bring these into relation.

Deleuze tries to recall the "vaguely scientific" discipline in which there is a term that he likes a lot and that he used in his books <_logic>ursor."

O my goSHGOD the Somber Precursor! the lighting lad of rod! and sphinxzzzz

This somber precursor places different potentials into relation, and once the journey of the somber precursor takes place, the potentials enter into a state of reaction from which emerges the visible event.

So, there is the somber precursor and then a lightning bolt, and that's how the world was born.

There is always a somber precursor that no one sees, and then the lightning bolt that illuminates, and there is the world. He says that's also what thought should be, and what philosophy must be, the grand Zed, but also the wisdom of the Zen.


The sage is the somber precursor and then the blow of the stick comes since the Zen master passes among his disciples striking them with his stick. So for Deleuze, the blow of the stick is the lightning that makes things visible... He pauses and says, and so we have finished.

Parnet asks a final question: is Deleuze happy to have a Zed in his name, and Deleuze says "Ravi!" and laughs. He pauses and says,

"What happiness it is to have done this."

Then standing up, putting on his glasses, he looks at Parnet and says "Posthume! Posthume!" , and she replies "PostZume!" The camera tracks Deleuze as he leaves the frame, and then from off camera,

Deleuze's voice says, "And thank you for all of your kindness.

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