Re:What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)
by yesenadam on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:30PM
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Oh, it's a selection from Pascal's Pensées, for some reason not labelled such.
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Re:What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)
by erwan on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:23AM
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It's on the second line. The title is the name of the fragment.
Re:What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)
by yesenadam on Thursday November 01, 2018 @11:53AM
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Yes, obviously I had to go to the site to learn that. I meant, there was no indication on HN. I guess I commented because I was disappointed - I read a lot of stuff from the 16th-19th C, and hadn't heard the title before, so I expected something 'new'.
It's not a fragment, it's someone's selection from Pascal's book, one of the most famous books of aphorisms, if not the most famous. It's not Pascal's title.