. . . Everything that concerns the sphere of loss, that is to say especially what I myself have lost: the past; and disappearance, flight; and more generally the passage of things, and even what in the prevalent and therefore most vulgar social sense of the timetable is called lost time -- all these meanings meet strangely in that old military expression, en enfants perdus, meet with the sphere of discovery, of the exploration of a terra incognita, with all the forms of the quest, of adventure, of the avant-garde. It is the crossroads where we found and lost ourselves.