Daudet : Alphonse-Marie Leon (1867-1942), French journalist & novelist, the most potent polemicist, his reputation rests largely upon his journalistic work & memoirs.
... of it. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: Interactions with Others and the Practice of Yoga I don’t suppose people are at all aware of this occult commerce [of vital energies]. Some like Daudet may observe the expenditure or throwing out of forces, but not the pulling or the effect on others. The idea of mental interchange is familiar though only of the superficial kind, not the silent action ...
... the interchange is unconscious, their external mind in which they live not being aware of it. I don't suppose people are at all aware of this occult commerce [ of vital energies ]. Some like Daudet may observe the expenditure or throwing out of forces, but not the pulling or the effect on others. The idea of mental interchange is familiar though only of the superficial kind, not the silent action ...
... idea of what and how much I used to write. The letters were often eight to ten pages each, and He used to read all that at night. The only 5From a French story for children, written by Alphonse Daudet in 1869. Seguin has a goat who is treated well and has all it wants, but pleads for some liberty and wants to get to the mountain. Seguin warns it of the dangers on the mountain, including the wolf ...
... buildings. You will give all these but not your souls nor your minds.” × A French tale by Alphonse Daudet ...
... more well-known names in this field are: Cervantes's Don Quixote with Sancho Panza beside him, Shakespeare's Falstaff, Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain the 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme', Dickens's Mr. Picwick, Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, Wode-house's Jeeves, Harry Leon Wilson's Mr. Ruggles, etc. Here is a small piece illustrating humour of character: it concerns one Mr. Hallam who was inordinately fond of ...
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