The loose papers of Zettel, Héctor Libertella’s last book, involve some of the stubborn task that Antoine Compagnon finds in children and the eldery, working paper as cut and paste, serious game in which life slips away, or arrives. This work reads Zettel in the light of another of his works to examine their connection with the fragment as a type of exposition that doesn’t looks for exhaustivity but the unfinished, being always in germ (Lacoue-Labarthe y Nancy) and with the work of citation (Compagnon) in which text becomes the result of the force of displacement