Status Updates From The Devils of Loudun (Colle...

i can’t believe i’m actually nearly done! wow! icannot tell you how much joy i took in learning about richilieu’s tuberculosis and exploding hemorrhoids:
“It was with the taste of excrement in his mouth that the arbiter of Europe’s destinies gave up the ghost.”


outside of that, it mainly focused on sister jeanne’s pathetic display of her traveling circus of gullible fools (ie surin and his buddy)

of course when i decide to power through the last 100 or so pages is when i get sick… frick my Huguenot life, right fellas?

ch9 was another interesting followup to grandier’s death. i didn’t expect the book to keep going for so long after his death but it does make a lot of sense. i loved how this chapter focused on poking holes in jeanne’s behavior/claims by simply recounting what happened. good stuff!

fr could not stop reading (ch8)…. wow.

“Although Beherit had been duly constrained, for some odd reason he had failed to tell the truth.”

eloquently tragic and disheartening, ch8 is mainly about m. grandier’s final time as prisoner before execution, including the execution itself. absolutely horrible, brutal stuff. the way this psycho-religiosity spreads while constantly contradicting itself is terrifying.

in the previous chapters, besides a few parenthetical snarky comments here and there, huxley presents everything very matter of factly, “this is what happened”. in ch7, he changes it up and spends the whole chapter criticizing the decisions of the good fathers and the jeanne’s convent. its great!! i prefer when he starts talking about how stupid they are, it’s honestly really funny.