Molière

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Molière is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 09, 2021 and July 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the “dormitive potency” line from Molière’s The Hypochondriac”; “if you’ve seen a Production, it’s Molière’s”. It most often appears alongside 1812, 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Ada.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 09, 2021
  • Last seen: July 05, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

April 09, 2021 · Original source
(I was going to suggest that maybe this quote might somehow be a mistaken bastardization of the “dormitive potency” line from Molière’s The Hypochondriac, since that’s what it reminds me of. But I looked and I actually wasn’t able to find that line in the play, so…)
July 05, 2024 · Original source
We owe this tale to Tirso de Molina, Who sought to school young Spaniards in morality, Though others showed it — odds are if you’ve seen a Production, it’s Molière’s — some partiality; Mozart saw (says each self-proclaimed Athena) His father in the statue’s grim finality, And Strauss made it a piece that— fine, I’ll say it: I’d sooner dine in Hell than try to play it.