Roman Catholic. Disciple of St, Augustine. “Shall a God do anything by half?/He foreknew and predestinated all/ The Great must pay for kissing things so small”
Jun 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“The Blood and the Flesh of the Poor are the only aliments that can nourish, the substance of the rich being a poison and a putrefaction. It is therefore a necessity of hygiene that the poor be devoured by the rich who find that very good, and who ask for it again.
Rich children are fortified by the juice of the poorsʼ flesh, and the rich manʼs cuisine is endowed with concentrate of the poor.”
- Leon Bloy
Jun 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Anyone have leads for the best place to do Napoleonic studies in Yankeedom ?
I feel like investing the fading embers of my repeatedly disappointed ambition in scholarship.
