Literature
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The gold digger
One day, he fulfilled his only desire every day without effort. He would get up and count in his mind the time it took him to do it. He counted time as if he were mastering it while it was slipping away. He knew his age, but he persisted in not letting himself be surprised by its effects. He asked his Continue reading
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Paradise Lost by Sebastien de Courtois
There is a nostalgia for a lost paradise. We all feel it, more or less; it connects us to Original Sin and the Fall. This illness torments pure souls. It languishes and agitates. A youthful illness if ever there was one, a romantic madness, this nostalgia is at the heart of Sébastien de Courtois's novel, Continue reading
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The Pump by Clive Staples Lewis
“First, you must rid yourself of the nauseating idea, the fruit of a manifest inferiority complex and a worldly mind, that pomp, under the right circumstances, has anything in common with vanity or self-importance. An officiant solemnly approaching the altar to celebrate, a princess led by her king Continue reading
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Claude Bruaire
Pain refers to the "negative" sensation in aggression that affects the being through the body. The word is used for localized aggression, with varying intensity, reserving "suffering" for the experience of the whole being, affected in its depths, in its personal being. An Ethics for Medicine. From Medical Responsibility to Moral Obligation. Fayard Editions. Continue reading
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Poetry by Philippe MacLeod
There is no greater vertigo than your exposed face (…). It is there, at the edge of this barely opened abyss, that we discover how close the flesh is to the soul. Advance into deep life, Éditions Ad Solem. Continue reading
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Our secret, a mystery
We have our secret, which we first keep secret from ourselves. Marcel Jouhandeau, in Elements for an Ethic. Grasset Editions. Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (7/7. Love)
7th and final part: Love Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied; Creon, on the other hand, wants to assert himself as king and demonstrate his power. Antigone favors family ties that embody love and reveal a being. Creon establishes his power by signing a bill that must Continue reading
Antigone , stupidity , counter-revolution , ethics , history , intimacy , forgiveness , politically correct , religion , totalitarianism , tradition -
Show “But times always come back…” – 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991)
Show "But times always come back..." — 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991) by Emmanuel Di Rossetti on Vimeo. On August 31, 1991, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment celebrated its 150th anniversary, the Battle of El Moungar, and its return from Operation Daguet, the first Gulf War, during an exceptional cinéscénie. 30,000 spectators from Nîmes attended Continue reading
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Paul Bourget on France since 1789
Paul Bourget wrote: "We must choose; either the people of 1789 were right and the whole ancient edifice must fall; or they were wrong and it is their work that must be destroyed to restore France." Continue reading
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Turn idea into feeling
Max Jacob to a student: Meditation is not about having ideas, on the contrary! It is about having one, transforming it into a feeling, into a conviction. A meditation is good when it results in a YES, pronounced by the whole body, a cry from the heart: joy or Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
What a fuss about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time was based on lineage and belonging to a city. Identity was imbued with roots. Family and city gathered under a virtual banner everything that others needed to know about themselves. Continue reading
Antigone , Catholicism , counter-revolution , ethics , intimacy , forgiveness , religion , revolution , totalitarianism -
Based on the values
Authority has lost its nobility along with humility. Authority has become a synonym for implacable order, thoughtless force, and tyranny. What an inversion of values! Whereas, according to Antigone, authority prevented tyranny! The modern era has this impression of authority because it has been trampled underfoot by Continue reading
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Unamuno on his quixotic quest
My work – I was going to say my mission – is to break the faith of one and all, and even of a third party: faith in affirmation, faith in negation and faith in abstention; and this by faith in faith itself. It is to fight all those who resign themselves, Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined by his roots as well as by his fruits. Man, like the tree, depends on external and internal elements to reach maturity. Man resembles this trunk sculpted by trials leaning on its roots and bearing fruits more or less Continue reading
Antigone , counter-revolution , ethics , history , intimacy , forgiveness , religion , revolution , totalitarianism , vulgarity