modern world
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What Monsieur Ouine says in our time…
Monsieur Ouine, one of the greatest French novels of the 20th century, provides many answers to the modern world as it is. The following few quotes provide a glimpse of the evil that is everywhere. Continue reading
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The virtues of boredom
In a small, acidic book (De la France, translated by Alain Paruit, L'Herne), Emil Cioran gave an answer to the French malaise. He explained how much he cared about boredom, but he distinguished two kinds of boredom: the one that opens "its doors to infinity," "as an extension into the spiritual of an immanent void of being," and the one that Continue reading
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Notes on The Child of Voluptuousness
Notes on Gabriele D'Annunzio's The Child of Voluptuousness. P 58. Between the obelisk of the Trinity and the column of the Conception, I suspended my Catholic and pagan heart as an ex-voto. She laughed at his sentence. He had a madrigal on his lips about this suspended heart; but he did not pronounce it, because Continue reading
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Notes on History of Catholicism
Notes from Jean-Pierre Moisset's History of Catholicism (chapter 9: The Shock of Modernity (mid-18th century — 1870). p. 394. The ritual of touching the scrofula at the end of the coronation, still practiced, is losing its credibility. Symptomatically, the formula of imposition, the formula of laying on of hands is changing. It was "the king Continue reading
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Notes on the French Revolution
Most of the quotes about the French Revolution given in this article come from the book "Historically Correct" by Jean Sévillia. — Solzhenitsyn: "Since men are not endowed with the same capacities, if they are free, they will not be equal, and if they are equal, it is because they are not free." — There is a revolutionary idea Continue reading
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The sticky moralism of the West
It is always amusing and instructive to realize the contradictions of one's adversaries. How, from this modern society so proud of its freedom, of its way of conceiving intimate things, this society of sensuality (when one has taken care to confuse sensuality and pornography), emerges a prudish, restrictive, voyeuristic society. Continue reading
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Oshio Heihachiro, rebellion samurai
To fully understand Oshio Heihachiro's actions, it is important to understand that they are dictated by an anti-revolutionary character and will. Nothing in Oshio Heihachiro's attitude is intended to challenge the established order. Oshio Heihachiro knows the system is perfectible, but also functional. What makes the system less efficient has more to do with the people than with the Continue reading
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Onfray's Eavesman Screams
So Onfray read a book that reveals the making of Ernst Jünger... Michel Vanoosthuyse: Fascism and Pure Literature. It reveals—the self-proclaimed philosopher of sensuality always tells us—that Jünger was always a fascist and that he spent years, a large part of his life, half a century, erasing the traces of Continue reading
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The secular and modern world
There is the beautiful Italian word "vergogna", there is the French word "shame" which has been emptied of its meaning in modern times. Who has not found themselves in the middle of a dinner with dear friends wanting to flee the place, flee so as to no longer have to endure the stupidity, the incoherence, the words Continue reading