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"Against a background of obscure speculations borrowed from old Hegel, restless beings dismantles a doctor Tribulat Bonhomet, solemn and childish, a Claire Lenoir and sinister farce, with blue spectacles, round and large as franc pieces, which covered his eyes almost dead. [...] Any ideas junk contemporary utility, all the shame of the century mercantile, were glorified in the rooms including the poignant irony carrying Esseintes. "
J.-K. Huysmans, A Rebours.
brutalize the poor by the drink; eliminate the artists for "social purge", "cure" the unrepentant pretext of hygiene, such are the ambitions of Tribulat Bonhomet.fervent zealot of positivism, coupled with a cynical Philistine doctor in spite of ourselves, the good doctor Bonhomet is more than ever our contemporary.
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