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  1. Roberto Calasso
  2. Contents
  3. Note for Lucien
  4. Living in the Torrent
  5. Exempla Voluptatis
  6. The Grand Ball
  7. Treacherous Trifles
  8. Dismal Glory
  9. “The Mysterious Force of Legitimacy”
  10. Arcana Imperii
  11. The Origins of Sweetness
  12. Eulogius
  13. L’Autrichienne
  14. The Woodcutter and the Fisherman
  15. Goethe in Venice
  16. On Taste
  17. Metamorphoses of Style
  18. A Belated Nostalgia for Sorrow
  19. The Languor of a Park in Berry
  20. Around Port-Royal
  21. The Ruin of Kasch
  22. Among the Ruins of Kasch
  23. Elements of Sacrifice
  24. Law and Order
  25. The Forest Doctrine
  26. Archives and Will-o’-the-Wisps
  27. Postcards from the Quaternary
  28. The Demon of Repetition
  29. Goethe’s Birthday
  30. Sacrificial Crumbs
  31. The Antiromantic Child
  32. Limits
  33. Process
  34. Glosses on Marx
  35. Ricardo’s Ruthlessness
  36. Geldkristall
  37. History Makes Experiments
  38. The Artificial Barbarian
  39. Un frisson nouveau
  40. Behind the Glass
  41. Bien-aimé
  42. A Visit to Picpus
  43. “The Organization Wouldn’t Like That”
  44. The Moscow Doorkeeper
  45. Montaigne’s Wake
  46. The Wolf-Man Recalls
  47. Voices from the Palais-Royal
  48. Mundus Patet
  49. Letter from Saint Petersburg
  50. Notes
  51. THE BEGINNING

303 Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, X, 6, 5, 1 (trans. Julius Eggeling).

304 Hesiod, Theogony, 500.

305 Simone Weil, Cahiers, cit., vol. I, p. 152.

306 Charles Baudelaire, Mon coeur mis à nu, cit., p. 678.

307 René Girard, Des Choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde, cit., p. 90.

308 Ṛg Veda, VIII, 41, 8 (trans. Karl Friedrich Geldner).

309 Marius Schneider, Le Rôle de la musique dans la mythologie et les rites des civilisations non européennes, in Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, Histoire de la musique, Gallimard, Paris, vol. I, 1960, p. 213.

310 Iliad, V, 341–42.

311 Plutarch, Septem sapientum convivium, 160 B, 1–2.

312 Job 41:31.

313 Bhagavad Gītā, XI, 16–17 (trans. Émile Senart).

314 Quoted in Hippolyte Taine, Les Origines de la France contemporaine. La Révolution, Hachette, Paris, vol. II, 1890, p. 69.

315 Ibid.

316 Ibid., p. 70.

317 Jacob Burckhardt, Historische Fragmente, Benno Schwabe, Basel, 1942, p. 231.

318 Macrobius, In Somnium Scipionis, I, 14.

319 Second Epistle to the Thessalonians 5:17.

320 Epistle to the Hebrews 10:4.

321 Ṛg Veda, I, 46, 11 (trans. Karl Friedrich Geldner).

322 Ibid., I, 24, 7.

323 Ibid., I, 24, 8.

324 Ibid., VIII, 41, 10.

325 Lilian Silburn, Instant et cause, Vrin, Paris, 1955, p. 22.

326 Ṛg Veda, X, 113, 5 (trans. Karl Friedrich Geldner).

327 Ibid., X, 113, 7.

328 J. C. Heesterman, The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration, Mouton, ’s-Gravenhage, 1957, p. 149.

329 René Guénon, Symboles fondamentaux de la Science sacrée, Gallimard, Paris, 1962, p. 400.

330 Bṛhad Āraṇyaka Upaniṣad, III, 7, 1 (trans. Émile Senart).

331 Ṛg Veda, VIII, 41, 8 (trans. Karl Friedrich Geldner).

332 Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, IV, 1, 4, 8 (trans. Julius Eggeling).

333 Ibid., XII, 9, 2, 12.

334 Adalbert Stifter, Vorrede a Bunte Steine, Gustav Heckenast, Pest-Leipzig, 1853, vol. I, p. 6.

335 Lilian Silburn, Instant et cause, cit., pp. 401–402.

336 J. C. Heesterman, The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration, cit., p. 6.

337 Louis Dumont, Le Renoncement dans les religions de l’Inde, appendice B in Homo hierarchicus, Gallimard, Paris, 1966, p. 335.

338 Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, XII, 2, 3, 12 (trans. Julius Eggeling).

339 J. C. Heesterman, The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kinship and Society, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985, p. 3.

340 Charles Malamoud, Terminer le sacrifice. Remarques sur les honoraires rituels dans le brahmanisme, in Madeleine Biardeau and Charles Malamoud, Le Sacrifice dans l’Inde ancienne, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1976, p. 156.

341 Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, I, 7, 4, 9 (trans. Julius Eggeling).

342 Charles Malamoud, Terminer le sacrifice …, cit., p. 194.

343 J. C. Heesterman, The Inner Conflict of Tradition, cit., pp. 27–28.

344 Louis Dumont, La Genèse chrétienne de l’individualisme, cit., p. 126.

345 Ibid., p. 144.

346 Richard Cobb, “Becoming a Historian,” in A Sense of Place, Duckworth, London, 1975, p. 19.

347 Ibid., p. 20.

348 Léon Bloy, L’Âme de Napoléon, cit., p. 271.

349 Richard Cobb, “L’Affaire Perken,” in A Sense of Place, cit., p. 76.

350 Richard Cobb, Reactions to the French Revolution, Oxford University Press, London, 1972, p. 20.