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"But Imperia held him fast... At this he put down his head and smelt a pleasant and delectable odour." 
[« Le François accoustumé par le nez à la chasse des pets, de là vient le proverbe, mené par le nez. »]
Béroalde de Verville, VII. A Tale of Fair Imperia (Couplet), The Way to attain (Moyen de parvenir), 1616.

Pascal: Now that we're cut off from the network, we no longer share data with each other.

"If into the world the same people should come back, just as the same events come, never would 
a hundred years go by which we should not find here a second time the very same things as now."
[Se nel mondo tornassino i medesimi uomini, come tornano i medesimi casi, non passerebbono 
mai cento anni, che noi non ci trovassimo un’altra volta insieme a fare le medesime cose che ora.]
Niccolò Machiavelli, Prologue, Clizia, 1525 [the writer promises the same case shall be presented.]

"In the modern experience, these elements contain the power of the impossible. Only the assiduous 
clamor created by repetition can transmit to us what only happened once."
[« ... reproductions qui portent dans l’expérience moderne les pouvoirs de l’impossible. Il n'y a plus 
que la rumeur assidue de la répétition qui puisse nous transmettre ce qui n'a eu lieu qu'une fois. »]
Michel Foucault, Afterword to The Temptation of St Anthony (A propos de La Tentation de saint Antoine).

EMM — Bite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzJ1siRfAJ0

"What want you, little one?" said the lady to him.
"To yield my soul to you," said he, flashing his eyes upon her.
"You can come again to-morrow." 
[« — Et que voulez-vous, mon petit ? lui dit la dame.
— Vous rendre mon âme, feit-il en la mangeant des yeulx.
— Vous pouvez revenir demain. »]
Honoré de Balzac, I. The Fair Imperia (La Belle Impéria), Droll Stories I (Contes drolatiques I), 1832.

"What do you think the play was, Harry?" 
"I should think 'The Idiot Boy, or Dumb but Innocent.' [Mary Martha Sherwood, children’s novel, 1828.]
Our fathers used to like that sort of piece, I believe."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter IV, 1891. [Good enough – It was "Romeo and Juliet."]