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Sam M
is on page 282 of 400
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.
— Oct 27, 2025 02:07AM
“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.
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Sam M
is on page 345 of 400
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)
— Nov 02, 2025 11:47PM
“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)
Sam M
is on page 319 of 400
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!
— Oct 31, 2025 11:29AM
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!
Sam M
is on page 242 of 400
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.
— Oct 25, 2025 07:49PM
Sam M
is on page 199 of 400
“But if they were rude to the Cardinal . . . Well, see what was happening to M. Grandier”
ch6 is one of the more engaging chapters—not saying that the others weren’t, but ch6 is all about the possessions and exorcisms as well as grandiers imprisonment and torture. it’s detailed, sarcastic, and dark. my favorite bit is the part where laubardemont approved the document saying he’s a cuck!
— Oct 12, 2025 08:18PM
ch6 is one of the more engaging chapters—not saying that the others weren’t, but ch6 is all about the possessions and exorcisms as well as grandiers imprisonment and torture. it’s detailed, sarcastic, and dark. my favorite bit is the part where laubardemont approved the document saying he’s a cuck!
Sam M
is on page 177 of 400
ch5 was mainly about witchcraft and the skepticism + persecution of people who practice witchcraft. really great chapter, educating but also some great bits.
“Hedging their bets, they worshipped God by day and the devil at night.”
just a small bit of huxley’s sardonic criticism towards christianity
“For us, Radical Evil has ceased to be something metaphysical and has become political or economic.”
real asf.
— Oct 11, 2025 11:29PM
“Hedging their bets, they worshipped God by day and the devil at night.”
just a small bit of huxley’s sardonic criticism towards christianity
“For us, Radical Evil has ceased to be something metaphysical and has become political or economic.”
real asf.
Sam M
is on page 158 of 400
(just finished ch4)
the first three chapters are essentially nothing but context in comparison to this chapter. it starts with jeanne’s bckgrnd and halfway through is when the exorcism takes place. this was a really interesting and genuinely tragic chapter, it took me a while to get through for some reason but it’s where the real meat of the recounting really reveals itself
— Oct 10, 2025 01:44PM
the first three chapters are essentially nothing but context in comparison to this chapter. it starts with jeanne’s bckgrnd and halfway through is when the exorcism takes place. this was a really interesting and genuinely tragic chapter, it took me a while to get through for some reason but it’s where the real meat of the recounting really reveals itself
Sam M
is on page 128 of 400
i love huxley’s tangents!
they are always semi-related but still feel just far enough out there to feel pleasantly unpredictable.
the segment about armelle nicolas was really interesting (“Then God permitted her conscious self to enter the central chamber of the soul”) but my favorite line of the chapter was easily “infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in a flower.” it’s honestly beautiful!
— Sep 26, 2025 06:33PM
they are always semi-related but still feel just far enough out there to feel pleasantly unpredictable.
the segment about armelle nicolas was really interesting (“Then God permitted her conscious self to enter the central chamber of the soul”) but my favorite line of the chapter was easily “infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in a flower.” it’s honestly beautiful!
Sam M
is on page 107 of 400
ch2 was amazing— a wonderful, messy breakdown of grandier’s intimate life. ch3 is a lot more brainy, contrasting surin and grandier and their differing goals (body v. spirit). huxley’s pretty bitchy in a really funny way (“After a quiet wedding, Philippe settled down to serve her sentence—forty years of loveless marriage.”ch2)
the philosphical talk in the beginning section of ch3 melted my brain though…
— Sep 26, 2025 02:22AM
the philosphical talk in the beginning section of ch3 melted my brain though…
