Thomas Carlyle [proto-Joyce / Melville] is your DEFINITIVE #lawoffunny guide for the French Revolution, and more generally the enlightenment (thread)
The Festival of Reason was celebrated on the eve of its worst atrocities - mass drownings at Nantes and shootings in Lyon
The Festival of Reason was celebrated on the eve of its worst atrocities - mass drownings at Nantes and shootings in Lyon
https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1267839143440035841
Which was all true to the Revolution's Enlightenment form / origins - that it enthroned Reason, but unleashed Furies, worshipped Liberty, yet institutionalized Terror, it proclaimed Brotherhood, but ate its children
The Revolution culminates in a grotesque display of the law
The Revolution culminates in a grotesque display of the law
The whole Revolution compresses to a single point of #lawoffunny where the Revolution began in *words* by the Philosophes, then ends in Robespierre's shrieking from a *jaw* wound when the Executioner Samson wrenches the dirty linen holding his mutilated jaw in place
as Robespierre stood mutilated and shrieking at the foot of the guillotine
"The jaw fell powerless, there burst from him a cry - hideous to hear and see. Samson - thou canst not be too quick!"
"The jaw fell powerless, there burst from him a cry - hideous to hear and see. Samson - thou canst not be too quick!"
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