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« On m’accuse d’être républicain, dites-vous ? Eh bien ! je ne m’en trouve nullement blessé. Je le suis sans doute, si l’on entend par ce mot un homme qui souhaite le bonheur de tout le monde. » - daddy Pascal 🫦

Oh Pierre quel salaud

p.119

His café life and all the newspaper articles he had read without understanding them had turned him into a terrible ranter. He spouted the strangest political ideas. You need to have heard one of those malcontents, who have little understanding of what they read, haranguing an audience in some provincial taproom to have any conception of the degree of spite and idiocy Macquart displayed.

Feels like he’s writing an impressionist painting - a focus on lighting.