A funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river

From Pascal’s Pensees (60 in the Lafuma numbering) with the Penguin translation. Plaisante is too rich to ever translate satisfactorily, but I think the rendering here could do better at flagging it as ironic reapplication of a specialized term. Even assuming no one would read a note on the salon background, something as simple as … Continue reading A funny sort of justice whose limits are marked…