Moliere
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not
of their illnesses.
to keep in mind Moliere was comedic
though what could be
funnier that when he died 17 February
1673 actors had no social standing and had
been excommunicated by the Church a cruel joke by a
Joke
therefore no priest would hear
Molieres confession
but hadnt he truly confessed what
he needed or sought to confess in his plays and writings
he believed he had
according to French law talk about jokes Moliere also couldnt be buried in consecrated
earth
King Louis XIV the Sun King le Roi Soleil interceded on
behalf of Moliere and he was interred in Cemetery Saint Joseph
King Louis Frances
absolute monarch was Molieres patron
the kings Absolutism apparently held for Moliere
not to get lost in the weeds talking of humour being pigeonholed is a kind of perverse humour Louis the Fourteenth a king preceded by thirteen other Louises
which isnt to be confused
with several women who are named Louise multiple
women also Louises Louises or LouisesWhat
confusion? during the Age of Reason women
didnt have souls apparently or legendarily the Synod of Macon in 585 “denied that women
had a soul” gee women could share one soul
there were lusty debates humourous he thought they hairsplit homo the Latin word homo primarily means “human
being” but also means “adult male”
Johannes
Leyser a Lutheran pastor got his panties in a bunch touting polygamy in his Polygamia
Triumphatrix -- looks
like fun meet ya in the pantry
-- “Among the holy fathers there was one
who insisted that women cannot, and should not be called ‘human beings’ (viz.
homines “men”).” Pastor Leyser essentially quoted St. Gregory of Tours his book The
History of the Franks frankly
-- humour
“There came forward at this council a certain bishop who maintained that woman could not be included under the term 'man.' However, he accepted the reasoning of the other bishops and did not press his case, for the holy book of the Old Testament tells us that in the beginning, when God created man, 'Male and female he created them and called their name Adam', which means earthly man; so, he called the woman Eve, yet of both he used the word 'man'."
comedic splitting hairs
apparently Moliere succeeded with
the Sun King by having the good senseexhibiting good sense humour not to proselytise but rather to animate the absurd
absurd lends itself to a kind
of funny
Hell it was absurd he found himself reading
Molierequoting him to help him offset
the stress he suffered because of his daughter and mother deaths
who died because of their illnesses
they did not have remedies
perhaps because
they werent men
1358, Sunday,
31 5. 20
1155,
Saturday, 6 6. 20
The Kinks Lola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU
