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Chapter 39: EPILOGUE

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The work assembles satirical, philosophical vignettes that stage mythic and modern figures to examine how abstract ideas govern conduct, portraying characters as puppet-like agents whose choices express intellectual concepts rather than spontaneous feeling. Episodes range from Parisian tableaux involving bankers and a perceptive waiter to allegorical encounters with Prometheus, probing private morality, the search for personality, and the conflict between desire and intellectual rigor. The prose blends wit, psychological observation, and episodic structure, concluding with an epilogue that frames artistic creation as the deliberate exaggeration of an idea.

EPILOGUE

TO ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE THE READER BELIEVE THAT IF THIS BOOK IS SUCH AS IT IS, IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE AUTHOR

One does not write the books one wants to.
Journal des Goncourt.

The history of Leda made such a great stir and covered Tyndarus with so much glory that Minos was not much disturbed to hear Pasiphaë say to him: “It can’t be helped. I do not like men.”

But later: “It is very provoking (and it has not been easy!) I trusted that a God had hidden there. If Zeus had done his share I should have produced a Dioscurus; thanks to this animal, I have only given birth to a calf.”

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