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"...only a small fraction of the great masses will be able to defy the mighty
fictions of the times and the intimidation that emanates from them."

Wrapping up Part I and am smitten with this. After trying both, I have to say I prefer the Ormsby translation to Grossman's, although I appreciate the footnotes in this edition. "The Knight of the Rueful Countenance" > "The Knight of the Sorrowful Face". In general I prefer the language in Ormsby's.

Dabbling in both and following along with the Doré illustrations.

even on the part of the greatest of doctors...when pity held up its telltale face like a head on a pike, in a French revolution, bobbing before a window, what was the inference but that the patient was bad?