by Voltaire
Updated - On hold for a bit until my stuff arrives from Canberra. I couldn't bring as many books up north with me as I'd have liked.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What an awesome find at the book grocer's! Voltaire AND Chris Ware in one book. It...
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Dizzying! Voltaire moves fast. Now Candide's in El Dorado in Paraguay...three pages later he's in Venice. I have the impression Voltaire gets bored easily.And I don't think it would hurt to read this twice: once with all the footnotes and once without. They're important; this is one of those boo...
This was pretty much the last thing that Voltaire wrote, and in it he summed up what he thought of a lifetime's experiences of politics, travels, and futile philosophical debates. He was more merciless than ever in puncturing pieties, hypocrisies, whitewash jobs, optimistic delusions, and well-meani...
The cover lead me to buy it, and now I think that is why it is still sitting on my shelf. I didn't laugh at all while reading it; perhaps life imitates art too much or maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind to full enjoy it. Though I wonder, as I laugh at the SNL skits of the Penelope character, ...
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