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351. Those great spiritual efforts, which the soul sometimes assays, are things on which it does not lay hold. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, for ever, but merely for an instant.

Pascal

Desire- We all have the urge to celebrate our own private Paris. Mine, like every Paris(s) is a city of pleasure. The irresistible decadant pleasure of thinking.  In Paris thinking itself is my chief interest- a sensual metapursuit. It is a solitary amusement, although I often overindulge in the company of others.

Necessity of Entertainment- Distraction is the muse of the poor. A winter evening in France can be romantic yet wet and miserable in a uniquely gallic way. You can reached the pitch of bordom that either you to get something new to read or go clinical. But it is Sunday in France with no Barnes and Noble, no tv, no radio, but with an internet connection.  A text copy of Pascal’s Pensées translated into English by one W. F. Trotter on the Guttenberg project website slowly downloads onto your powerbook. Why download it rather than Candide? Or the Further Adventures of Sherlock Homes? Pensées de Pascal is not light reading, especially if you are looking to read to avoid thinking. But I did and I downloaded and then I read. After reaching section 22, there was a motive. By section 34, there was a glimmer of a plan and by section 72, there was project waiting. Which is fortunate because no distraction is more entertaining than work.

memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis*

*the remembrance of a guest that tarried but a day

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memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis*

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371. When I was small, I hugged my book; and because it sometimes happened to me to... in believing I hugged it, I doubted....

- Pascal

Every one knows that the sight of cats or rats, the crushing of a coal, etc., may unhinge the reason. The tone of voice affects the wisest, and changes the force of a discourse or a poem.

-Pascal