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conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about Verity, Sam, Michael with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'The Conspiracy'
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conversations.value: The Conspiracy
  It ill behoves one to include the parables of Jesus as an extra for the customer. According to these, the mystical mustard seed of the Gospels appears in the pearl. It is, to be sure, as Matthew says, the least of all seeds; but once it is full-grown, then it is larger than all the other herbs in the garden and grows into such a tree that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches. What happens in the garden is child's play compared to the miraculous feats of the pearl within the life of the economy. After a portrayal of money-grubbing capital, which speaks disgustedly of all the blood that sticks to pennies, yet leaves shares aside as an anachronism, Claudel goes on to say: 'The penny has its exchange value. The law prescribes it and Lady Justice guarantees it. But the pearl, the spawn of duration and the fruit of the sea, has no other value than that of its beauty... Its appearance on the market devalues all other goods; it changes their price; it brings disquiet to the banks, it threatens the equilibrium of their transactions. For it ushers in an element that escapes every number: I am speaking of its spiritual concupiscence, which emerges from contemplation of it' (pp. 29–30). – Claudel invites the customer into the boutique with sacristan bells. One can no longer deny the idea that the peace we enjoy is named after the Rue de la Paix.
  And how long will it last? Should it survive the spring, then I really do trust this year will bring us together. I have been thinking that the World Fair will bring a number of important people to New York. Will you still be able to make some time free for Europe? I very much hope so.
  Two days ago Germaine Krull came to Paris. She seemed to me to be relatively cheerful; in a more confident mood than last time.
  PS. Are you really looking into moving the Institute, as could be inferred from your postscript? I don't suppose you are thinking of Europe.
  Page 5 Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale was founded in 1893, and soon established itself as one of the best known French philosophical journals.
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conversations.value: Page 62 The speech of Touraine is commonly regarded as providing the closest thing to standard French (mutatis mutandis roughly equivalent to Hanover German, Tuscan Italian or Oxford English).
  At the Ecole des Chartes for librarians and archivists, Simon would have studied diplomatics or the science of documentary analysis – in contradistinction to the diplomacy which, for the sake of the pun, Nizan ascribes to the curriculum of the Ecole des Sciences Politiques.
  Page 72 'Alain': pen-name of Emile-Auguste Chartier (1868–1951), a product of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the most influential philosophy teacher in France during the inter-war years, especially thanks to his prolific essays. His main emphasis was on education of the will, creating a personality for oneself that is the product of self-conscious and rational effort.
  Page 78 MENE TEKEL PERES: the reference is to the writing on the wall at Belshazzar's feast, see Daniel, 5, vv. 25–8: 'And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing; MENE – God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it. TEKEL – Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES – Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.'
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conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
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conversations.value: At the Ecole des Chartes for librarians and archivists, Simon would have studied diplomatics or the science of documentary analysis – in contradistinction to the diplomacy which, for the sake of the pun, Nizan ascribes to the curriculum of the Ecole des Sciences Politiques.
  Page 72 'Alain': pen-name of Emile-Auguste Chartier (1868–1951), a product of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the most influential philosophy teacher in France during the inter-war years, especially thanks to his prolific essays. His main emphasis was on education of the will, creating a personality for oneself that is the product of self-conscious and rational effort.
  Page 78 MENE TEKEL PERES: the reference is to the writing on the wall at Belshazzar's feast, see Daniel, 5, vv. 25–8: 'And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing; MENE – God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it. TEKEL – Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES – Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.'
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conversations.value: Page 218 Georges Dumas (1866–1946), experimental psychologist. Nizan himself was sympathetic to psychoanalysis, and was one of the first to express an interest in the work of the young Jacques Lacan.
  Page 219 The Faubourg Montmartre district stretches along the Rue Montmartre, between Les Halles and the grands boulevards.
  Page 223 Fauxpasbidet, Peudepièce: derisive names indicating that the foundling in question was the result of an ineffective contraceptive douche, or had been discarded because of overcrowded family accommodation.
  Page 225 Cartesian diver: scientific toy consisting of a hollow figure filled partly with water and partly with air, floating in a flexible airtight vessel nearly filled with water. Pressure on the vessel compresses the air within and forces more water through an aperture into the figure, which sinks, to rise again when the pressure is removed.
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conversations.value: Page 218 Georges Dumas (1866–1946), experimental psychologist. Nizan himself was sympathetic to psychoanalysis, and was one of the first to express an interest in the work of the young Jacques Lacan. 
  Page 219 The Faubourg Montmartre district stretches along the Rue Montmartre, between Les Halles and the grands boulevards. 
  Page 221 Anatole Deibler (1863–1939) was public executioner, like his father and grandfather before him, from 1899 until his death, during which time he supervised over 350 guillotinings. 
  Page 223 Fauxpasbidet, Peudepièce: derisive names indicating that the foundling in question was the result of an ineffective contraceptive douche, or had been discarded because of overcrowded family accommodation. 
  Page 225 Cartesian diver: scientific toy consisting of a hollow figure filled partly with water and partly with air, floating in a flexible airtight vessel nearly filled with water. Pressure on the vessel compresses the air within and forces more water through an aperture into the figure, which sinks, to rise again when the pressure is removed.