{"id":1283,"date":"2011-09-21T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2013-08-29T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:35:36","slug":"analects-of-the-core-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/21\/analects-of-the-core-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Voltaire on indecisiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00ab Je voudrais savoir lequel est le pire, ou d&#8217;\u00eatre viol\u00e9e cent fois par des pirates n\u00e8gres, d&#8217;avoir une fesse coup\u00e9e, de passer par les baguettes chez les Bulgares, d&#8217;\u00eatre fouett\u00e9 et pendu dans un auto-da-f\u00e9, d&#8217;\u00eatre diss\u00e9qu\u00e9, de ramer en gal\u00e8re, d&#8217;\u00e9prouver enfin toutes les mis\u00e8res par lesquelles nous avons tous pass\u00e9, ou bien de rester ici \u00e0 ne rien faire ? &#8212; C&#8217;est une grande question \u00bb, dit Candide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8216;I would be glad to know which is worst, to be ravished a hundred times by Negro pirates, to have one buttock cut off, to run the gauntlet among the Bulgarians, to be whipped and hanged at an auto-da-fe, to be dissected, to be chained to an oar in a galley; and, in short, to experience all the miseries through which every one of us hath passed, or to remain here doing nothing?&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;That,&#8217; said Candide, &#8216;is a big question.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Voltaire, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Candide-Optimism-Penguin-Classics-Voltaire\/dp\/0140440046\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1316115325&amp;sr=8-2\">Candide<\/a><\/em>, Chapter 30, English trans. by William F. Fleming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab Je voudrais savoir lequel est le pire, ou d&#8217;\u00eatre viol\u00e9e cent fois par des pirates n\u00e8gres, d&#8217;avoir une fesse coup\u00e9e, de passer par les baguettes chez les Bulgares, d&#8217;\u00eatre fouett\u00e9 et pendu dans un auto-da-f\u00e9, d&#8217;\u00eatre diss\u00e9qu\u00e9, de ramer en gal\u00e8re, d&#8217;\u00e9prouver enfin toutes les mis\u00e8res par lesquelles nous avons tous pass\u00e9, ou bien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,3691],"tags":[3713,3915,48728,3714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}