The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: servants

Directions to Servants

1 April 2004, around 19.01.

lessons for masters

Montaigne 1.38

2 October 2015, around 8.45.

anachronism When I scold my valet I scold him with all my hear: my imprecations are real and not feigned; but when the fumes have passed over, let him but need my help, I willingly grant it him; I instantly turn the leaf. When I call him a silly fool, a calf, I have no […]

bettered novels (22.2)

20 February 2016, around 13.25.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, part 2, a brief notice of the servants (1813).

28.ix.2020

28 September 2020, around 19.44.

Life is always in excess of the stories we tell about it – to others, to ourselves. Always the awkward relation is a sign of more to come; the stories which don’t fit; the lives lived in parallel universes, intersecting, overlapping, together and apart. A real life includes conflict, anger, mistakes; it spills over into […]

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