Dear Candide, I'm glad your life has settled down for now. What an unfortunate ordeal you had to suffer through! (All in the name of satire, hmph). After the multiple deaths and rebirths of your friends, you handled it so well; though with the irritability of you wife, I know of a good counselor and psychiatrist for that. Also, I heard of a breakthrough procedure of reverse lyposuction for ...
...stupid than to persist in carrying a burden that we constantly want to cast off, to hold our existence in horror, yet cling to it nonetheless, to fondle the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten our heart?" Candide, by Voltaire.
What could be more stupid than to persist in carrying a burden that we constantly want to cast off, to hold our existence in horror, yet cling to it nonetheless, to fondle the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten our hearts?
What could be more stupid than to persist in carrying a burden that we constantly want to cast off, to hold our existence in horror, yet cling to it nonetheless, to fondle the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten our hearts? voltaire, candide
.... Honorable mentions for 'Best' category go to: Code Complete, Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban), Gormenghast Trilogy (Mervyn Peake), The Magus (John Fowles), Candide (Voltaire), Gene Wolfe's Books of the New Sun, Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig), Three ...
...Club, but not enough to ask anyone else to join. This week was Voltaire's Candide. His coffee sat cold and abandoned at the edge of the table and...ear and heard a familiar voice-- “Some people say Candidereminds them of me.” Oscar figured it was a.... Oscar thought he really was a little like Candide. “ Okay. But I'm driving.” Andy happily took ...
...Club, but not enough to ask anyone else to join. This week was Voltaire's Candide. His coffee sat cold and abandoned at the edge of the table and...ear and heard a familiar voice-- “Some people say Candidereminds them of me.” Oscar figured it was a.... Oscar thought he really was a little like Candide. “ Okay. But I'm driving.” Andy happily took ...
... Terri sighed. "We are interrupting my time with Voltaire because?" "You smell like prettah." Terri lifted his book ... tilted the book to see better. "It whut is?" "Candide, ou l'Optimisme." "You say like prettah. Say it..., Pretty." Finally, Terri put the bookmark in Voltaire's sarcastic thoughts on religion through the wide eyes of the ridiculous Candide. "It's been a long time since you called ...
...and with a nasty edge -- as befits a vampire story.) --- Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories , Voltaire, trans. Donald M. Frame (ficton: I really want to count...these for general cultural literacy. My conclusion is that Voltaire is... well, he's a very didactic writer. ...introduction makes me fairly certain the tense shifting is Voltaire's own, not a translation error -- which ...
