Status Updates From Candide

this is killing me why are we talking abt such gruesome topics and immediately switching to smth light and sweet😭😭

Started reading this in front of a French person in hopes that that would lead to a natural conversation in which I could casually say I'm looking for a job...did not happen.

"Divert yourself by inducing each passenger to tell you his story; and if there is a single one of them who has not many times cursed his life, and sworn that he was the most wretched of men, I give you leave to throw me head foremost into the sea."