July 2015
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News from Louis-René des Forêts
On this rainy Sunday, rereading the notes I jotted down in the margins of the marvelous Ostinato, I came across this gem among gems: Let us not veil our faces with our hands. There is no longer anything to venerate, no act of glory or intelligence to absolve a world seduced by force, spreading its defilement everywhere, and which… Continue reading
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News about Hyppolite Taine
He's a pedant, a pedant is a hollow, puffed-up mind that, because it's full of words, believes itself full of ideas, revels in its own phrases, and deceives itself to rule over others. He's a hypocrite who believes himself sincere, a Cain who fancies himself Abel. In this shrunken brain, given over to abstraction, and… Continue reading
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News from Nicolàs Gómez Dàvila
Let us call a totalitarian state the one that results from the attempt to replace social integration, destroyed by the liberal and democratic mentality, with state integration. Continue reading