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Montaigne by Ben Shaun
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October 10, 2014
Take That, Jean Cauvin
It’s
not just self-righteousness we need to oppose; it is righteousness itself. Montaigne is right to ridicule our desires
for godliness if the price to be paid is otherworldliness, to despise our own
nature, even being. It is rather perfection, closer
to divine:
. . . to know how to
enjoy existence rightfully [as opposed to living righteously]. We seek [such] other conditions because we do
not understand the use of our own, we go outside ourselves because we do not
know what is in us. And yet: even when
mounted on stilts, we walk with our own legs.
Perched on the loftiest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our
own arse.”*
Books Review:
On the other hand, not
everything is about sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. What Anna
Karenina and The Sound and the Fury have
in common: sex, yes, but then dysfunction, and suicide.
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*C’est une absolue perfection, et comme
divine, de sçavoyr jouyr loiallement de son ester. Nous cherchons d’autres conditions, pour n’entendre
l’usage des nostres, et sortons hors de nous, pour ne sçavoyr que il y
fait. Si, avons nous beaut monter sor
des eschasses, car sur des eschasses encores faut-il marcher, de nos jambs. Et au plu eslevé throne du monde, si ne
sommes assis que sus nostre cul.
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from d’Experience
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