Plus l’artiste comprend les intentions de nature mieux, plus il triomphera de lui plus facilement. The better the artist understands the intentions of nature, the more easily he will triumph over it Share:
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Tag Archives: Melvin
Mondes entrent en collision
Nous avons cassé l’internet. [thanks to Violet Shuraka and her sweatshop of comely persons!] Share:
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And the Oscar goes to…
O best beloved internet, today I took some time from my busy schedule to worry about getting that bird flu and whether or not Hilary Swank will wear Vera Wang. Then that baby of my acquaintance stopped by. Here’s the thing with babies: They are swirling existential voids. People think babies don’t know anything, but [...]
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Quatre ans sans lumière
En conséquence toute l’expérience a montré, cette humanité sont plus disposée pour souffrir, alors que les maux sont sufferable, que vers la droite elles-mêmes en supprimant les formes auxquelles elles sont accoutumées (…accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the [...]
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Joyeux anniversaire, Lambchop
L’âge mûr donne la tonalité aux violons, au vin, et aux bons camarades. (Ripe age gives tone to violins, wine, and good fellows.) Share:
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Pensées de Melvin sur une société démocratique
L’invalide est un parasite sur la société. Dans un certain état il est indécent pour continuer à vivre. (The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living.) Share:
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Melvin -in- Voyage au bout de la nuit
En Afrique j’avais en effet trouvé un genre suffisamment épouvantable de solitude mais l’isolement de ce tas américain de fourmi était plus se brisant. (In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.) Share:
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Counterpoint: The Family Idiot
by Melvin, a beagle The toiling masses with their burdens and effluvia need not decide my personal liberties. Making mistakes and learning from one’s decisions is only natural for humanity, but the sad fact is that we are beleagured by sub-humans. Their hollow cries for vengeance jar my ear, just as a wine that has [...]
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La volonté de puissance
Nous avons ainsi beaucoup de raisons d’être des hermites, mais quelqu’un doit régner. (We have so many reasons to be hermits, but someone must prevail.) Share:
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Je regrette une chose
Dieu sait qu’elle ne m’a jamais donné un regard fâché, ou a poussé un mot de reproche. Quel est le résultat? Que je ne l’aime pas! (God knows she has never given me one angry look, or uttered one word of reproach. What is the result? That I don’t love her!) Share:
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