#rameau's nephew

[enlitment]

Diderot on his daughter Angélique's Education

[wearebeguiler]

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream

[rowan-odubhghaill]

On avale à pleine gorgée le mensonge qui nous flatte, et l’on boit goutte à goutte une vérité qui nous est amère.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Le Neveu de Rameau, D. Diderot

Rameau's Nephew, D. Diderot

[talleyrandsghost]

No matter what the weather, rain or shine, it’s my habit every evening at about five o’clock to take a walk around the Palais Royal. I’m the one you see dreaming on the bench in Argenson’s Alley, always alone. I talk to myself about politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my spirit roam at will, allowing it to follow the first idea, wise or foolish, which presents itself, just as we see our dissolute young men on Foy’s Walk following in the footsteps of a prostitute with a smiling face, an inviting air, and a turned-up nose, then leaving her for another, going after all of them and sticking to none. For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

Denis Diderot (1769) Le Neveu De Rameau (Rameau’s Nephew)

[rwpohl]

wavelength, michael snow 1967

[rwpohl]

профессор мамлок, herbert rappaport adolf minkin 1938

[rwpohl]

rameau's nephew, buw 2023

footage sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcBrwCcBZSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ02ikIQnjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOQZibgiqY

[tasteforrot]

ME: What have you been doing?

HIM: What you, I, and all the other do–some good, some bad–and nothing. Then when I was hungry, I ate when I had a chance. After eating, I was thirsty and I drank sometimes. However, I grew a beard, and when that came, I shaved it off.