“I ought to be all alone in the world, just me, Steiner, and no other living thing. No sun, no culture, myself naked on a high rock, no storm, no snow, no banks, no money, no time, no breath. Then, at least, I wouldn’t be afraid.”
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In 1975 Ader embarked on what he called a very long sailing trip. The voyage was to be the middle part of a triptych called “In Search of the Miraculous”, a daring attempt to cross the Atlantic in a 12 foot sailboat. He claimed it would take him 60 days to make the trip, or 90 if he chose not to use the sail. Six months after his departure, his boat was found, half-submerged off the coast of Ireland, but Bas Jan had vanished.
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“The man who trips would be the last to laugh at his own fall, unless he happened to be a philosopher, one who had acquired by habit a power of rapid self-division and thus of assisting as a disinterested spectator at the phenomenon of his own ego.” — Baudelaire