ellauri055.html on line 250: Senaattori Pococurante sanoo Candidelle suorat sanat klassikoista:
ellauri100.html on line 238: Hi! I'm Loquitur Veritatem! You can call me Poco Loco for short, like my Hispano-American friends do. If my background and credentials matter to you, I present them in the following sections:
ellauri142.html on line 399: Uhraudu ja antaudu kokonaan jumalalle, niin ottaa hän ehkä uhrisi vastaan, jos se on jotain hyvää. (Tuomas Kempiläinen) Ei maar, häätyy tähän väliin lukea vähän lisää Tuomolta. Olikohan se uomo? Todnäk, rengasmunkkina. Mulla oli vuosikymmeniä lyhythihainen paita, jonka niskassa luki Mappa Mondo. Toisen samanlaisen merkki oli Uomo di Mondo. Sit oli vielä pusakka jonka nimi oli Poco Loco. Ostin ne Itixen K-marketista ja käytin ne aivan vanuxi. Seija inhos niitä. Panin ne päälle kun olin vihainen. Siis aika usein. Sellainen joka ainoastaan vastaanottaa, eikä mitään pane siihen lähteeseen, josta hän ammentaa, on katamiitti. J Böhme: Alistuvaisuus. Ole jumalalle saapasrenkinä. Pyllistä. (Sax. huom. Böhmestä lisää täällä.) Mutta nyt Tomi, ole hyvä!
ellauri222.html on line 733: Shlomo Pococurante vs. Mauri Moltocurante
ellauri222.html on line 739: Before discussing some of the minor characters in this story, it should be borne in mind that each of them can be analyzed in connection with Candide who may accept or reject their beliefs or principles. Among such supplementary characters, we can single out Lord Pococurante. To a certain degree, even his name is symbolic; the word “pococurante” is of Italian origin and it can be translated into English as indifferent. He perfectly corresponds to his name. At the very beginning of the fifteenth chapter, Voltaire makes the reader feel that Lord Pococurante is tired of everything. He says, “I make them lie with me sometimes, for I am very tired of the ladies of the town, of their coquetries, of their jealousies, of their quarrels, of their humors, of their pettinesses, of their pride, of their follies” (Voltaire, 70)
ellauri222.html on line 741: Certainly, some of the previously mentioned can be very tiresome, but this character assumes such an attitude towards everything. The lord can be characterized by perfectionism; he demands excellence from everyone and everything surrounding him. Overall, perfectionism is a positive quality because it stimulates a person to improve oneself but in his case, it becomes grotesque, because Lord Pococurante rejects everything that allegedly does not meet his standards.
ellauri222.html on line 743: His literary tastes are also very interesting. Lord Pococurante is quite able to criticize Homer, Horace, and Cicero; there is nothing, which may seem flawless. His ability to find defects in everything prevents him from taking pleasure in literature, philosophy, and painting. It is obvious that the author is ironic about him, it can be deduced from Candides remark “But is there not a pleasure in criticizing everything, in pointing out faults where others see nothing but beauties’ (Voltaire, 73). The main problem is that such a world outlook is a personal tragedy, and such an attitude may eventually result in suicide.
ellauri222.html on line 745: The question arises why Voltaire inserts such a character in the novella, and what functions he performs in the story. On the one hand, Lord Pococurante embodies the then French aristocracy, the social class, surfeited with everything. The author attracts the reader’s attention to a very curious paradox: people, who live in luxury, cannot enjoy it. Though it is not explicitly stated by Voltaire, such people are doomed to failure. At this point, we can say with certainty that Voltaire is prophetic in this novella.
ellauri222.html on line 747: Another aspect, which should be discussed, is perfectionism. The author emphasizes that such a worldview can be very dangerous if the person does not keep the sense of proportion, as it is with Lord Pococurante. He is not able to see the beauty of things that surround him. His criticism can be only destructive, though Pococurante identifies drawbacks; he does put forward any suggestions, which may prove useful.
ellauri222.html on line 749: Apart from that, this character demands perfection only from other people, he never attempts to apply this principle to himself and it makes him a slightly comic figure. Lord Pococurante is neither artist, nor writer, but he takes faults with the world masterpieces, which is absurd in its core. Nevertheless, many people deem themselves quite competent for criticizing, having never created any work of art.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 443: Poco chiaro.. Molto grottesco. Like.
xxx/ellauri387.html on line 490: "Who?" said Pococurante sharply; "that barbarian who writes a tedious commentary in ten books of rumbling verse, on the first chapter of Genesis? that slovenly imitator of the Greeks, who disfigures the creation, by making the Messiah take a pair of compasses from Heaven´s armory to plan the world; whereas Moses represented the Deity as producing the whole universe by his fiat? Can I think you have any esteem for a writer who has spoiled Tasso´s Hell and the Devil; who transforms Lucifer sometimes into a toad, and at others into a pygmy; who makes him say the same thing over again a hundred times; who metamorphoses him into a school-divine; and who, by an absurdly serious imitation of Ariosto´s comic invention of firearms, represents the devils and angels cannonading each other in Heaven? Neither I nor any other Italian can possibly take pleasure in such melancholy reveries; but the marriage of Sin and Death, and snakes issuing from the womb of the former, are enough to make any person sick that is not lost to all sense of delicacy. This obscene, whimsical, and disagreeable poem met with the neglect it deserved at its first publication; and I only treat the author now as he was treated in his own country by his contemporaries."
xxx/ellauri387.html on line 491: “What a superior man!” murmured Candide. “What a genius this Pococurante is! Nothing can please him.” Jotain tutunomaista kaverissa on.
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