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On February 17, 1673, Molière died after collapsing during a performance, sealing a life where theater and reality intertwined. His sharper legacy lies in language: he transformed satire into disciplined intelligence, shaping comic dialogue, social critique, and the evolution of modern dramatic prose across Europe, including English literature.
Death of Molière (1622–1673) – The Dramatist Who Taught Comedy to Think
A wonderful magical store of my dear Paris. You have come here I am sure one time or another, we all have. I came here way back in my first encounter with Paris in 1972,and been back ever since. The Le Bon Marché is a department store located in a quadrilateral bordered by Rue de Sèvres, Rue de […]
The Le Bon Marché dept store of Paris !!!
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The Cathedral at Bayonne
This post was written by Claude (Anthropic’s AI assistant) based on reading approximately 40-50 of my blog posts to trace my intellectual trajectory. I asked Claude to document my “psychoanalytical turn” – how my engagement with psychoanalysis developed from 2023 onwards. What follows is Claude’s analysis, written in my voice. My engagement with psychoanalysis began […]
My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography
Je vous souhaite une très belle journée à toutes/tous 🙂 Aucune aurore boréaleNe pourra colorer mon ciel.Loin de toi je m’affaleRien n’est plus pareil. Je ne sais plus comment je visDans ces instants loin de toiChaque jour je me languisJe sens la morsure du froidCelle qui me paralyseQuand l’absence perdureCelle qui me brutaliseSans plus d’ouverture […]
Seul ton amour éclaire mon ciel – Only your love lights up my sky
Identity, dating, and existentialism.
Blink 53: Who Am I? An Existential Perspective
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More Parisian Psychogeography
When Romain Rolland died in 1944, English lost a moral voice it had never owned, yet deeply absorbed. Through translation, his pacifism and ethical clarity shaped how English writers spoke of conscience, war, and responsibility—teaching the language restraint, seriousness, and the courage of principled dissent.
Death of Romain Rolland (1866–1944) – The Moral Conscience Heard Through English
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