“Errant, he challenges and discards the universal - this gener alizing edict that summarized the world as something obvious and transparent, claiming for it one presupposed sense and one destiny. He plunges in to the opacities of that part of the world to ·which he has access. Generalization is totalitarian: from the world it chooses one side of the reports, one set of ideas, which it sets apart from others and tries to impose by exporting as a model. The thinking of errantry conceives of totality but willingly renounces any claims to sum it up or to possess it.”
(Glissant 1997, 20f)