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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- 1812 (1 shared issues)
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- 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1 shared issues)
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- Ada (1 shared issues)
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- Albania (1 shared issues)
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- Alexandria (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotelian (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle’s physics (1 shared issues)
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- Arthur John Brock (1 shared issues)
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- Asclepiades (1 shared issues)
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- atomic explanation (1 shared issues)
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- Aurora Raby (1 shared issues)
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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.
(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…)
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.