Maturation de la vigne au 14 août 2025

• Le prélèvement de maturation sur la parcelle de vigne a été effectué ce matin par mes soins. Voici les résultats sur un échantillon de 15 raisins pris en diagonale sur la parcelle :

Progression de 1 degré en 4 jours du 14/08 au 18/08 puis baisse de 1 degré (5mm de pluie) le 21/08

• Par rapport à 2024, le niveau d'acide tartrique (AT) est supérieur, mais c'est le même degré pour un prélèvement qui avait été effectué le 3 septembre 2024. Le poids des raisins est aussi supérieur. On peut donc dire que la vigne à trois semaines d'avance par rapport à l'année dernière.
• Il est tombé 4 mm de pluie cette nuit à Saint Ennemond. S'il pleut encore la semaine prochaine, les baies devraient grossir.

• La vigne a souffert de la sécheresse cette année. Certains ceps, heureusement peu nombreux, n'ont plus de feuilles :

• Le voisin utilise un robot pour désherber ses parcelles :
  
  

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

 

• It's all of technology they can't take.
• Somewhere are people who understand it and run it but those are technologists, and they speak an inhuman language when describing what they do.
• You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time.
• When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly.
• If they can't stand physical discomfort and they can't stand technology, they've got a little compromising to do. They depend on technology and condemn it at the same time.
• A hang-up. You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge.
• What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality. The world as you see it right here, right now, is reality, regardless of what the scientists say it might be.
• What you've got here, really, are two realities, one of immediate artistic appearance and one of underlying scientific explanation and they don't match and they don't fit and they don't have much of anything to do with one another.
• I want to divide human understanding into two kinds - classical understanding and romantic understanding.
• Both are valid ways of looking at the world although irreconcilable with each other.
• Mark Twain's experience comes to mind, in which, after he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty. Something is always killed.
• The ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

Part II

• To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly, since these organizations are founded upon the same structural conceptual relationships as a motorcycle. They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose.
• To revolt against a government because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes ; and as long as the attack is upon the effects only, no change is possible.
• If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
• It's a good day to be alive.

9

• hang up: contretemps
• gee-whiz: révolutionnaire
• juggernaut: pouvoir destructeur
• lumbering: lourd
• crank up: augmenter
• bluffs: bosquets

• That is induction: reasoning from particular experiences to general truths.
• Repair problems are not that hard.
• For this you keep a lab notebook. Everything gets written down, formally, so that you know at all times where you are, where you've been, where you're going and where you want to get.
• Sometimes just the act of writing down the problems straightens out your head as to what they really are.
• (1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the experiments and (6) conclusions from the results of the experiments.

10

• baffled: perplexe
• muddled: confus
• fetters: chaînes
• dreariness: monotone
• creepers: plantes grimpantes

• The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshipper or lover. The daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
• What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it.
• The more you look, the more you see.
• Sometimes I'd a little better to travel than to arrive.

11

• timberline: cîme
• creek: ruisseau
• play tag: jouer au loup
• aspen: tremble (arbre)
• prow: proue
• thatched: avec un toit de chaume
• nod: signe de tête
• cognizance: conscience
• shiver: frissonner
• stunted: rabougri
• broad-leafed: feuillus
• thaw: dégel
• airtight: irréfutable
• slumber: sommeil
• nits: poux

• It was at a level at which everything shifts and changes, at which institutional values and verities are gone and there is nothing but one's own spirit to keep one going. His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals it the service of these functions.
• He was actively in pursuit of something now.
• What does it all mean? What's the purpose of all this?
• The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society.
• "That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt".
• If I were  to go down to the bank and to ask to see my money they would look at me a little peculiarly. They don't have 'my money' in any little drawer that they can pull open to show me. 'My money' is nothing but some east-west and north-south magnetic domains in some iron oxide resting on a roll of tape in a computer storage bin. But I 'm satisfied with this because I've faith that if I need the thing that money enables, the bank will provide the means, through their checking system, of getting it.
• Tu es libre quand tu obéis à la loi que tu t'imposes en tant qu'être rationnel.
• Quel principe guide vraiment mon choix ?
• Avec son inversion copernicienne, Kant fait de l'esprit humain le centre actif de la connaissance, non un simple miroir passif du monde extérieur.

12

• whack: grand coup
• to gloss over: passer rapidement
• haywire: détraqué
• whacky: dingue
• miffed: vexé
• flunk: rater
• buff: musclé
• cocksure: arrogant
• blithely: gaiement
• miter: assembler
• honeysuckle: chèvrefeuille

• He became aware that  the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.

13

• fright: effroi
• ludicrous: ridicule
• rammed: bondé
• hush: chut
• kinship: parenté
• contemptuous: méprisant
• rumblings: grondements

• You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

14

• livestock: bétail
• slant: pencher
• grate: grille
• trout: truite
• marshmallow: guimauve
• wistfully: avec mélancolie
• to veer away: se déporter
• non sequitur: sophisme
• letdown: déception
• nuts: cinglé
• kindling: petit bois
• brook: ruisseau 
• slur: affront
• expound: énoncer
• to damn: condamner
• chopped-up: émincé
• contrive: planifier
• speechify: discourir
• ludicrous: absurde
• ugliness: laideur
• topsy-turvy: sans dessus dessous
• to vilify: diffamer
• quilt: couette

• For me a period of depression comes on when I reach a temporary goal like this and have to reorient myself toward another one.
• After you pick up skill, welding gives a tremendous feeling of power and control over the metal. You can do anything.
• If the machine produces tranquillity it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
• The art of work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That's why you need the peace of mind.
• You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

15

• baffled: perplexe
• to jell : se constituer
• mimicry: imitation
• eddy: tourbillon
• perfunctorily: machinalement
• backwash: contrecoup
• spine-tingling: chair de poule
• jolt: à coup
• to trot: trotter
• itsy-betsy: minuscule
• wearily: avec lassitude
• despondent: déprimé

• We’ve all changed…so much since you left
• That’s all over for me now. I’m doing other things

Part III

16

• duff: litière
• wrought: forgé
• partridge: perdrix
• dull: terne
• drudge: bête de somme
• stump: poser une colle
• dismissal: licenciement
• balky: entêté
• nonplussed: perplexe
• rote: répétition
• to loaf: traîner
• contemptuous: méprisant
• hunch: intuition
• to sprain an ankle: se fouler une cheville

• There are as many routes as there are individuals souls.
• For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see.
• To force them to look within themselves, the only place they would ever get a really right answer.

17

• marsh: marais
• to crouch: s'accroupir
• moose: élan
• jagged: dentelé
• to expound: énoncer
• outline: contour
• to jack up: augmenter
• abode: demeure 
• holiness: sainteté
• selfless: désintéressé, altruiste

• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.
• There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.
• He did't know where he was going. All he knew was that it worked.
• Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in a disaster. When you try to climb mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do, it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way.

18

• to recoil: reculer
• to blather: jacasser
• overcast: nuageux
• thereupon: à ce sujet
• to conjure up: faire apparaître
• cleavage: scission
• squareness: caractère carré
• stave: échelon
• groovy: stylé
• cocky: trop sûr de soi
• rubbery: caoutchouteux
• flutter: battement
• damp: humide
• knoll: monticule

• I think that the referent of a term that can split a world into hip and square, classic and romantic, technological and humanistic, is an entity that can unite a world already split along these lines into one. A real understanding of Quality doesn't just serve the System, or even beat it or even escape it. A real understanding of Quality captures the System, tames it, and puts it to work for one's own personal use, while leaving one completely free to fulfill his inner destiny.

19

• to dispel: dissiper
• knoll: monticule
• ridge: crête
• springy: bondissant
• flunk out: être recalé
• to despise: mépriser
• smug: suffisant
• forceful: déterminé
• ominous: menaçant
• to dash: se précipiter

• He put it up on a kind of mental shelf where he put all kinds of questions he had no immediate answers for.

20

• barren: stérile
• creases: plis
• spook: flanquer la trouille
• eerie: étrange
• fussbudget: maniaque
• mesmerize: hypnotiser
• fright: peur
• faintheartedness: craintivité
• fathomless: insondable

• The silence allows you to do everything right.
• Believe me, when the world is not seen as a duality of mind and matter but as a trinity of quality, mind, and matter, then the art of motorcycle maintenance and other arts take on a dimension of meaning they never had.
• People differ about Quality, not because Quality is different, but because people are different in terms of experience.
• The sudden accumulated mass of awareness began to grow and grow into an avalanche of thought and awareness out of control.

21

• rind: peau
• What I want to do now in the Chautauqua is get away from intellectual abstractions of an extremely general nature and into some solid, practical, day-to-day information, and I’m not quite sure how to go about this.

22

• shattering: bouleversant
• leeward: sous le vent
• ascertainment: détermination
• quandary: dilemme
• serrated: en dents de scie
• rutty: défoncé
• wearily: péniblement
• spill: flaque
• logging: abattage
• sheepish: penaud
• twilight: crépuscule

• Jules Henri Poincaré
• Then it's the exception that becomes important. We seek not resemblances but differences, choose the most accentuated differences because they're the most striking and also the most instructive.
• The subliminal self, Poincaré said, looks at the large number of solutions to a problem, but only interesting ones break into the domain of consciousness.
• Poincaré judgment that the scientist selects facts, hypotheses and axioms on the basis of harmony.

24

• hopelessness: désespoir
• leaden feeling: sentiment lourd
• shank: tige
• stuck: bloqué
• sledge: masse
• folds: enclos
• homespun: fait maison
• sag: affaissement
• gorgeous: superbe
• hairpin: épingle à cheveux
• crag: rocher escarpé

• A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares.
• The classic-romantic split that I think underlies the whole humanist-technological problem.
• Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art.
• The leading edge is where absolutely all the action is.
• You have to have a sense what's good. That is what carries you forward.
• The technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff.

25

• glare: lumière vive
• dullness: monotonie
• phony: faux
• tinsel: guirlandes de Noël
• mending: raccommodage
• scrubby: broussailleux
• scant: rare
• groovy: stylé
• contention: affirmation
• ghastly: épouvantable
• slant: pente
• to resent: en vouloir
• to fathom: comprendre

• Actually a root word of technology, techne, originally meant 'art'. The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.
• The answer is Phaedrus' contention that classic understanding should not be overlaid with romantic prettiness.
• The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part.
• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
• Just a sort of unexplained sadness that comes each afternoon when the new day is gone forever and there's nothing ahead but increasing darkness.

26

• dusty: poussiéreux 
• wisp: mêche
• guzzle: engloutir
• gumption: courage, cran, bon sens. Avoir de la gumption: être pleinement engagé, motivé, avec un esprit clair
• caliper: pied à coulisse
• lathe: tour
• goofed: faire une gaffe
• to conjure up: évoquer
• fussiness: caractère exigeant
• ailment: affection, maladie
• spic and span: impeccable
• dingy: miteux
• fidgety: agité
• louse up : gâcher
• nuts and bolts: écrous et boulons
• studs: clous
• tapped holes: trous taraudés
• warped: déformé
• stool: tabouret
• licked: léché
• sloppy: peu soigné
• tailgating: coller une voiture

• If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. Your ego isolates you from the Quality reality.
• Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all.
• You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your underestimation of yourself.
• When you make the mistakes yourself, you at least get the benefit of some education.
• My favorite cure for boredom is sleep.
• I enjoy troubleshooting more than most and dislike cleaning more than most.
• Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of time the job will take. Very few jobs get done as quickly as planned.
• Yes or no confirms or denies an hypothesis. Mu says the answer is beyond the hypothesis.
• Your understanding of the context of the question needs to be enlarged.
• Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret it.
• Pay attention to adequate lighting.
• Its' the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts.
• If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidances, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together.
• But if you're a sloppy thinker six days a week and you really try to be sharp on the seventh, then may be the next six days aren't going to be quite as sloppy as the preceding six. What I'm trying to come up with on these gumption traps, I guess, is shortcuts to living right.
• We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, super modern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country. We've been out of it for so long I'd forgotten all about it.

Part IV

28

• quivering: tremblant
• loathsome: dégoutant
• writh: se tordre
• cognizance: conscience
• lore: connaissance
• lacy: en dentelle
• wrenches: clés
• dipstick: jauge de niveau
• smother: étouffer
• hark: écouter
• weasel: fouine
• skulk: rôder
• capstone: pierre finale
• rod: tige
• stationery: fournitures de bureau
• unbowed: insoumis
• skimmed: écrémé
• perjury: parjure

• Don't throw anything away. Never, never throw anything away.

29

• scabbard: fourreau
• smithy: forge
• hazy: brumeux
• spectaculars: grands spectacles
• bumblebees: bourdons
• worth: valeur
• endow: doter
• drizzle: brune
• raves: éloge
• to dwell on: s'étendre sur
• slight: affront
• contempt: mépris
• spite: méchanceté
• awe: émerveillement
• smugness: suffisance
• stunt: cascade
• wan: blême
• chuckholes: nids de poules
• dubious: douteux
• likeness: ressemblance
• enconium: louange
• fouled up: faire foirer
• shirttail: pan de chemise
• to despise: mépriser
• scent: parfum
• quarry: carrière
• edgy: nerveux
• fulcrum: point d'équilibre 
• feelers: antennes
• cookery: cuisine
• pandering: lêche bottes
• pimping: maquereau
• titter: gloussement
• winnowing: sélectionner
• sooty: couvert de suie
• abhor: détester
• to get over: oublier
• misgivings: doutes
• imperishable: impérissable
• slain: tué
• bereft: endeuillé
• deeds: actes
• wily: rusé
• schemer: inspirateur
• stout: fort
• furrow: sillon
• braggart: vantard
• flay: fouetter
• tugging: tirer sur
• pristine: pur
• Aretê: excellence, vertu, perfection; réaliser pleinement sa nature

• It's paradoxal that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest. The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance, and in Montana and Idaho the physical distances are big, but the psychic distances between people are small, and here it's reversed.
• My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all.
• We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashioned gumption.
• What are the three kinds of particular rhetoric?  'Forensic, deliberative and epideictic'
• What are the epideitic techniques? 'The technique of identifying likeness, the technique of praise, that of encomium and that of amplification'
• Phaedrus studied hard during this period, and learned extremely fast, and kept his mouth shut.
• The Iliad is the story of the siege of Troy.
• Duty towards self.
• One can acquire some peace of mind from just watching that horizon.
• We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fearing ourselves.
• Happiness and good are not objective terms.

30

• womanish peevishness: irritabilité féminine
• drab: morne
• foil: faire-valoir
• barren: stérile
• outflank: contourner
• rubbery: caoutchouteux
• composure: calme
• surly: bourru
• spell: sort
• timberline: cîme
• scathingly: d'un ton cinglant
• hedge: haie
• loathsome: dégoûtant
• ruts: ornières
• eerie: étrange

• They've been at it all their lives.
• The white horse is temperate reason, the black horse is dark passion, emotion.
• Aristotle's opinion is that dialectic comes before everything else.
• A lifetime of blows tends to make a person unenthusiastic about any unnecessary interchange that might lead to more.
• No one else can cross it for you. You've got to cross it by yourself.

31

• slug: limace
• slime: bave
• to dawdle: traîner
• dew: rosée
• to recant: se rétracter
• hazy: brumeux
• contempt: mépris
• wail: pleurs
• teal: sarcelle
• whine: sifflement
• rag: chiffon

32

• to enshroud: envelopper
• groves: bosquets
• to conk on the head: frapper à la tête

• It's not as small as I think it is.
• Is it hard? No if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.
• Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live.

Afterword

• baffled: déconcerté
• to confine: borner
• to conceive: tomber enceinte
• to recede: reculer
• to mend: raccommoder

• Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
• It gives a positive goal to work toward that does not confine.
• What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.
• It will take work, it will take time.
• Reading is the enemy of writing.
• www.moq.org