#ZADIG

[antoinemaillard]

Les Encombrants, illustration for  Toni Benaquista short story in Zadig Magazine. AD Nathalie Thiriez

[kayshla19]

Style3597 by Kay ღ Lush ღ Photographer Via Flickr: thisiskayshla.blogspot.com/2024/04/style3597.html

[rrcraft-and-lore]

I wish more people read old old OLD stories to learn where so many come from.

Like Zadig, by Voltaire. It led to the evolution of the detective novel/story. It also features an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, a story out of Serendippo/Ceylon/Sri Lanka 3 princes features nesting stories. A serendipitous (where the word serendipity comes from) adventure. It's a picaresque before the word picaresque (from the Spanish, Picario), but anyways. It's shared/in conversation and evolutionary storytelling in action.

Zadig is believed to have inspired Poe with The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

But origins of this train begin in Sri Lanka.

A story about just a wild zany fun adventure of three princes. And this old story features a great deal of detective work and analytical thinking from the pov of the princes.

You've probably seen the inverse in popular media/games.

A murder happens, one of three brothers is blamed. You're asked to sus out who did it. Only here, they're asked to defend themselves after being blamed for stealing a camel they've never seen however, they are able to make deductions about the camel based on context clues in their environment, each prince having noted different things to help clue them in to the specifics about said camel, and unifying their findings. --the princes are later spared as someone else finds the camel wandering in the desert.

But yeah.

Storytelling (its history and traditions) is neat as fuck when you study it.

[camilledecussac]

[chaotic-history]

Zadig's a Mary Sue y'all :/

[babylaurent]

Birthday list for a cancer baby ♋️💗

[philosophybitmaps]

[baratrongirl]

For the book ask thing: 12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

I definitely enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I'm trying to think what other set books we did in English, and I can't remember much apart from Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth were all right, A Merchant in Venice was so disgustingly anti-Semitic that I couldn't possibly enjoy it, and Twelth Night plain didn't make any sense). I remember An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley, but it was so depressing that I couldn't possibly enjoy it.

Other than that, I enjoyed Zadig by Voltaire in French, and all of our Latin set readings, especially the Aeneid by Virgil. In another universe, I would have studied Classics instead of Chemistry at university.

Hmm... That really makes me think.

[melynafoxclaw]

1084 – Okay, Who Did This!  https://thefoxclawpost.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/1084-okay-who-did-this/ 

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[thefollyflaneuse]

Spottiswoode, near Lauder, Borders

Spottiswoode House, was described in 1846 as a ‘stately and elegant edifice in the old English style of architecture’. The estate had been ‘possessed, time out of mind, by the Spotiswoodes’ and was the childhood home of Alicia Anne Spottiswoode. It became her retreat in widowhood and the place where she was remembered for having ‘a weakness for erecting curious stone archways and other little…

[laurellondonuk]

Sky Life

The ambient living of Skybox life in a secluded spot in the virtual Universe is enough to make one dream dreams of what could be possible in our reality if one were truly able to travel to the clouds and habitat but this is what virtual worlds are for. This is a Skybox home in the clouds by Zadig.

[eloenmaerdrym]

Spring in the kitchen

Credits Muniick- Wickman Yellow Daisies in Tin Jugdust bunny . summer picnic . picnic basket RARE.peaches.  Bee Sweet Tea Set – Honey Trike ❤.peaches. Coira’s Lovely Daisy Clutter – Bowl of Peaches ❤Sari-Sari– Daisy Cookies @ Anthem  ❤[Merak] – Resting Dough Version 1 ❤[Merak] – Pasta Dryer ❤[Merak] – Pasta Ingredients Set ❤[Merak] – Gas Stove Oven ❤BROKEN ARROWS – Florence Set – FATPACK…

[kayshla19]

Style3641 by Kay ღ Lush ღ Photographer Via Flickr: thisiskayshla.blogspot.com/2024/05/style3641.html

[curiositesvoltairiennes]

Dans ses Notules du jour, Philippe Didion reproduit une notice nécrologique parue dans le quotidien le Monde en janvier 2023. On y découvre un prénom voltairien.

[senjahari]

Suratan Takdir, Saat Kebaikan Tak Membawa Kebaikan Kecil

Suratan Takdir, Saat Kebaikan Tak Membawa Kebaikan Kecil

Sebagian besar orang akan merasa lelah atau kecewa saat tahu nasib mempermainkanya. Misal saat kita berbuat baik pada orang A, tapi yang ada orang A berbuat buruk pada kita. Kita langsung menyebutnya orang tak tahu adab, atau tak tahu terima kasih. Tak hanya itu, kita lalu mudah merajuk dan enggan berbuat baik lagi. Voltaire—seorang penulis dan filsuf asal Perancis—pun memiliki pemikiran yang…

[chaotic-history]

Zadig (the story not the character) is absolutely batshit so far and I am living for it. Only the nose of a dead man can heal his spleen? The implication that very much alive Zadig spent several days just chilling in his tomb? Zadig suddenly becoming BBC Sherlock? The king's PARROT saving the day? Zadig being given an AWARD for being oh-so-brave enough to tell the king he's wrong? (definitely not at all V being salty...)

and I'm not even a quarter done with it yet