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Maitre Mussard's Bequest by Patrick Süskind
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Overview: In 1753, Maitre Jean-Jacques Mussard, as he nears death, writes, with extreme difficulty, a testament to unknown future readers. He had been a wealthy French jeweller who had hobnobbed with the Parisian haute monde and participated in its glittering intellectual life, developing friendships with philosophers of the calibre of Diderot, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Condillac and Voltaire. He has reached the pinnacle of success in becoming Court Jeweller to the Duke of Orléans.
However, having lost his wife and feeling jaded despite his commercial achievements, he decides to retire to an estate at Passy, near Paris. But one day, while digging a border in his garden, he comes across a hard white stone layer in which are large quantities of petrified shells. He experiments with them and finds that the stone layer and the shells consist of the same material. He extends his excavations and finds the same not only in his garden but everywhere else he digs. This chance event becomes an obsession as he ponders the implications of his discovery.
From these samples he intuits that the shells are everywhere, just below the surface, being nourished and expanding in number at the expense of the thin crust above. If his theory is true, it has apocalyptic consequences for the Earth, with an Age of Shells surely not far off and not just consequences for the planet, as he is convinced that the same principle holds true throughout the solar system and perhaps the entire universe.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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Requirements: .PDF reader, 1.25MB
Overview: In 1753, Maitre Jean-Jacques Mussard, as he nears death, writes, with extreme difficulty, a testament to unknown future readers. He had been a wealthy French jeweller who had hobnobbed with the Parisian haute monde and participated in its glittering intellectual life, developing friendships with philosophers of the calibre of Diderot, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Condillac and Voltaire. He has reached the pinnacle of success in becoming Court Jeweller to the Duke of Orléans.
However, having lost his wife and feeling jaded despite his commercial achievements, he decides to retire to an estate at Passy, near Paris. But one day, while digging a border in his garden, he comes across a hard white stone layer in which are large quantities of petrified shells. He experiments with them and finds that the stone layer and the shells consist of the same material. He extends his excavations and finds the same not only in his garden but everywhere else he digs. This chance event becomes an obsession as he ponders the implications of his discovery.
From these samples he intuits that the shells are everywhere, just below the surface, being nourished and expanding in number at the expense of the thin crust above. If his theory is true, it has apocalyptic consequences for the Earth, with an Age of Shells surely not far off and not just consequences for the planet, as he is convinced that the same principle holds true throughout the solar system and perhaps the entire universe.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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I was in the beginning and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am time, the destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space.