Il répand tous les matins sa grâce avec sa rosée sur mon jardin et sa bonté m'incite à le glorifier dans les concombres et les citrouilles qu'il me donne.Un tel discernement est utile au solitaire qui vit sans cesse entouré d'apparitions; car en fuyant les hommes, on est sûr de rencontrer les esprit...
Introduction--The Gods Will Have BloodNotes
bookshelves: essays, philosophy, nonfiction, published-2007, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, sciences, fraudio Read from January 03 to 05, 2014 The Portable Atheist read by Nicolas Ballanthology of atheist writing through the ages.1. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens2. Lucretius: from the N...
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25411
I will start with an avowal and with apologies. The main reason I decided to read this novel now was not so much because of an interest in the book and in its writer, but in another work and in another author. As part of the full year project of reading Proust’s La recherche, I want to read a sele...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1930Opening:BOOK I. THE BEGINNINGS I. LIFE OF SAINT MAEL Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and...
3.5 - 4 starsWhat happens when we let an idea, an ideal of what humanity ought to be, perhaps even a good one of what it could be, consume us? What happens when the idea becomes more important than the people it is meant to represent? What happens when this idea becomes a god to be worshipped blindl...
Rating: 3.625* of fiveThe Book Report: The journey through the Terror of the French Revolution made by artist Évariste Gamelin, aspiring bourgeois to Jacobin true believer to his inevitable fall after the Coup de Thermidor. One man's life journey explores the entire *amazing* and enthralling course...
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