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The Atheist's Mass

Honoré de Balzac

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. . .mper, whereas, in fact, he was simply characterized by what the English call eccentricity. Sometimes very handsomely dressed, like Crebillon the tragical, he would suddenly affect extreme indifference as to what he wore; he was sometimes seen in a carriage, and sometimes on foot. By turns rough and kind, harsh and covetous on the surface, but capable of offering his whole fortune to his exiled masters—who did him the honor of accepting it for a few days—no man ever gave rise to such contradictory judgements. Although to obtain a black ribbon, which physicians ought not to intrigue for, he was capable of dropping a prayer-book out of his pocket at Court, in his heart he mocked at everything; he had a deep contempt for men, after studying them from above and below, after detecting their genuine expression when performing the most solemn and the meanest acts of their lives.

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دو داستان کوتاه از بالزاک، اولی ماجرای جراحی خداناباور که به دلایلی به صورت مقیدانه مراسم عشای ربانی را چهار بار در سال اجرا می کند و در تشریح این پارادکس، بالزاک به زیبایی برتری اخلاق را بر فلسفه های زندگی بشری به رخ می کشد.
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I began my evening watching, John Le Carre's, BBC production of , TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY. After that I watched the masterful Itzhak Perlman perform Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major. And I finished of the night reading Balzac's, THE ATHEIST'S MASS. What an exclam

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