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. . . He is a middle-aged man who has ‘seen much, read much, and retained much’, a professional man of experience, a doctor, a military man, an artist, or a Don Juan. He has reached the time of life when, according to a respectful and comfortable myth, a man is freed from the passions and considers with an indulgent clear sightedness those he has experienced. His heart is calm, like the night. He tells this story with detachment. If it has caused him suffering, he has made honey from this suffering. He looks back upon it and considers it as it really was, that is, sub specie aeternitatis’. (viewed in relation to the eternal; in a universal perspective.) There was difficulty to be sure, but this difficulty ended long ago; the actors are dead or married or comforted. Thus, the adventure was a brief disturbance which is over with. It is told from the viewpoint of experience and wisdom; it is listened to from the viewpoint of order. Order triumphs, order is everywhere; it contemplates an old disorder as if the still waters of a summer day have preserved the memory of the ripples which have run through it. Moreover, had there this disturbance? The evocation of an abrupt change would frighten this bourgeois society. Neither the general nor the doctor confides his recollections in the raw state; there are experiences from which they have extracted the quintessence, and they warn us, from the moment they start talking, that their tale has a moral. Besides, the story is explanatory; it aims at producing a psychological law on the basis of this example. . . 126

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. . . A novice painter asked his teacher, ‘When should I consider my painting finished?’ And the teacher answered, : When you can look at it in amazement and say to yourself "Am the one who did this!” {Excerpt: “What is Literature” Author Jean-Paul Sartre} HFF Ye all