Monday, March 29, 2010
Emerson "What Is Infection..."
Art must be infectious says Tolstoy. 102 It must be immediate and whole and cannot segregate based on intelligence and education. 103 The goal of art is brotherly union. Emerson goes through the aestheticians opinion on Tolstoy, then Bakhtinian, Dostoevskian. 103 She then goes into the problems people find with thoughts and feelings that T talks about. Then about the various other problems that scholars have come up with when refuting t. 103 Then about the questions that come up with T's three criteria for ideally infectious art: Individuality, clarity and sincerity. Some of these may not lead to brotherhood. 105 Emerson aims to add on to Silbajoris and Morson who have done some revisionist writing on Tolstoy to bring him back to his aesthetics. 106 She wants to focus on the interaction between expression and infection. 106 Infection takes place immediately. 107 T's ideas on expression are more vague. Where there is honest feelings then it should be able to be transmitted to the person receiving it without problem. Emotions that are not immediate or are hard to determine are not real in terms of art. 107 Practice and teachers and anything that delays the individual espression of the soul is not real art even if through the years of practice and teachers the individual creates something of the soul that has all more impact to the listener because of its perfection. It is fake. 108 What does it mean in the face of T that himself had to practice his craft to reach the best examples? Does it fly in the face of his other writing that exclaim that with prolonged attempts to be conscientious we may attain grace - just not in art? 108 For T, only the folk arts that are simply and small are real art 109 Emerson then goes on to discuss the previous versions of the same treatise and to compare how they allow for greater process. 110 T has a different set of three criteria for determining art in his earlier drafts. 110 He allows for the work of making art to play a role in the artistic interpretation. T also does not insist on the brotherhood of man to take over as strongly. 112 T rails against Wagner as the end of art in Europe. 112 T also comments on the art of teacher and pupil. 113 Why? T may have been trying to make himself like Mozart and to show the simplicity of beauty as if it came easily. 113 T had too much going on around him and could only do with renouncing to make the space calmer. 114
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tolstoy's "What is Art"
Chapter 1
There is a lot of money spent by people just jumping and twisting and such and money could be used more usefully elsewhere. Who can all of this please and who is it for?
Chapter 2
Is art worth the cost and the sacrifice of so many people that have no access to art? Is art worth anything especially if it is harmful? What is art and what is good art? He looks at other authors that claim that all the senses are subject to art and aesthetics. What does beauty have to do with it and is it all? Beauty does not equal good.
Chapter 3
T goes through all philosophy on the subject author by author.
Chapter 4
From all the philosophy he shows that there are two definitions of beauty. 1 approaching perfection, 2 it pleases. However these two ideas are essentially the same thing. and there is no objective idea of beauty, so it is all moot. It makes it all very elite too. We like a certain type of art and thus create a definition to include it rather than the other way around. Thus pleasure cannot be a rule for beauty.
Chapter 5
The problem with all the precious definitions of art is that they attempt to answer incompletely the question of pleasure without looking at the question of purpose. Art is a part of life and as such must be looked at as a means of intercourse between men - the one who made it and the one that takes it in. In art he transmits his feelings, like with words he transmits thoughts. It is the capacity of man to receive the feelings that make something art. Infection of the feeling transmitted is the activity of art. Without the ability to convey and receive art we would be like beasts.
Chapter 6
He starts on good art and bad art. Art that elevates the soul is good art. Art that strengthens only the body's passions is bad art. Good and bad is defined by religion, thus religion decides what is good or bad art.
Chapter 7
Beauty and good are not equal. He brings the ancient Greeks into it.
Chapter 8
One of the problems with defining art is that every culture believes they have universal art and it is not true. The art we have now is genteel art and not universal. 2/3 of the world dies without knowing it and if they had it they wouldn't know what to do with it. It is not the ordering of society, it is the type of art. it is done by rich people as a hobby and not as work. If art is that important as religion, then it should be accessible to everyone.
Chapter 9
Art has been perverted and nearly destroyed. First it lost its religiousness proper to it. Then the small group of people for which it is made and by whom perverted its form and made it obscure then it became not-natural and brain-spun. A true work of art is that that transmits a new feeling, however small the feeling may be. Enjoyment is hackneyed, but religious feeling is always fresh because it has no boundaries. Art is made for and by the upper classes, but their lives are far less broad than the life of a worker. Pride, sexuality and weariness of life took over all art of the upper class.
Chapter 10
Art became more exclusive and obscure. all art forms are working in this fashion. It cannot be that T or the other people that do not enjoy it are simply not enlightened enough. The art must be bad. "Good art always pleases everyone." The bible, folk tales and parables are understood and are the best art. Art make sense of things that cannot be understood with words. To understand bad art one must habituate oneself to it, thus it is bad. "The aim of art is to infect people with the emotion of the artist has experienced how can one talk of not understanding?"
Chapter 11
Universal art exists when someone of the people has an emotion and seeks to transmit it to others. A work of art is not if it is simply poetic, realistic, striking or interesting. There are conditions for a man to produce a work of art. He should stand on the highest life-conception for his time, he should experience feeling and want to transmit it to others, and he should have a talent for one of the art forms.
Chapter 12
The counterfeiting of art happens all the time and is what separates the upper class art from the worker class. There are three things that ensure counterfeiting of art. 1 payment for this art. 2 art criticism. 3 art schools. Universal art has a must - religious perception. Criticism is for those that cannot write and they interpret wrongly. Art cannot be taught because it is the transmission of feeling. In order to infect music must do three things. Exact pitch, time and strength needed for the particular music. Art in all forms only exists when the artist finds the infinitely minute degrees where it is perfect. Impossible to teach, can only be felt.
Chapter 13
All art is mutually exclusive of others. If two or more are combined, then one submits to the other for art. In a musical play either the music or the drama will be art, but not both. Wagner is the worst of these. He is so successful because he is able to use all the methods of counterfeiting available to someone with unlimited resources.
Chapter 14
The trouble with non-art is that it cheats and perverts and tricks people into believing it is art. One problem is that externally non-art and art might be almost the same and the non-art might even be more convincing because it uses the tricks of counterfeiting.
Chapter 15
The degree of infection is also the measure of art's worth. The stronger the infection, the better the art. The degree depends on three conditions. 1 the individuality of the feeling transmitted. 2 the clearness of the transmission. 3 sincerity of the artist. The mental condition of the artist infects the receiver. sincerity is the most important.
Chapter 16
Art serves a similar function as speech and that is of progress. To replace the old with the new and evolve towards an ever better and kinder society. The more if fulfills this need the better the art and the less, the worse. The appraisal of this feeling is religion. Religion represents the highest level of understanding of the meaning of life in any society and so it is the arbiter of what is good and what is bad. If people do not see a religious perception in society today it is because they are not looking properly, not because it is not there. If people deny what they see as religion, because they say it is outdated, then that too acknowledges the existence of perception. We should reject anything that does not go with the perception. All art unites people, they unite with the feelings of the artist and with all others that feel the same feeling. Christian art is universal because it does not exclude. It must not exclude anyone and if it is good art it will not. There are two feelings that unite all men. 1 Our sonship with God and the brotherhood of man 2 simple feelings of common life. Art should exclude any art that does not unite. Even when the subject matter is good art often is filled with ornamentation and becomes exclusive to only a few people.
Chapter 17
The consequences of bad art: 1 Money wasted in working hours. Children spend too many hours doing these things and become physically and mentally deformed and morally and incapable of doing anything good for mankind. They get praised for contributing to and assessing counterfeit art and inflate their own vanity. 2 The wealthy that spend their lives with such distractions should realize the waste of their lives and do something good. A false life. 3 the minds of the weak, poor and young are perverted and confused with the hero worship of artists. 4 Beauty gets put before good by the upper classes. 5 European art makes people think of superstition, patriotism and sensuality.
Chapter 18
Art and society is starting to move in the right direction, but not yet. People just need to consciously acknowledge that religious art is the perception that moves their lives and thus should their art for it to replace the art made now.
Chapter 19
Art of the future will be good art from religious perception that infects all people, not just certain people from certain classes. It will not be taught in schools and will not be made by professional artists. Job security and wealth are injurious to artists because they take away his ability to struggle with nature for the maintenance of his life and others. Artists will work another menial jog and be paid in the pride of helping mankind.
Chapter 20
Science and art should work together better. Science finds truth and art transmits it to emotion.
There is a lot of money spent by people just jumping and twisting and such and money could be used more usefully elsewhere. Who can all of this please and who is it for?
Chapter 2
Is art worth the cost and the sacrifice of so many people that have no access to art? Is art worth anything especially if it is harmful? What is art and what is good art? He looks at other authors that claim that all the senses are subject to art and aesthetics. What does beauty have to do with it and is it all? Beauty does not equal good.
Chapter 3
T goes through all philosophy on the subject author by author.
Chapter 4
From all the philosophy he shows that there are two definitions of beauty. 1 approaching perfection, 2 it pleases. However these two ideas are essentially the same thing. and there is no objective idea of beauty, so it is all moot. It makes it all very elite too. We like a certain type of art and thus create a definition to include it rather than the other way around. Thus pleasure cannot be a rule for beauty.
Chapter 5
The problem with all the precious definitions of art is that they attempt to answer incompletely the question of pleasure without looking at the question of purpose. Art is a part of life and as such must be looked at as a means of intercourse between men - the one who made it and the one that takes it in. In art he transmits his feelings, like with words he transmits thoughts. It is the capacity of man to receive the feelings that make something art. Infection of the feeling transmitted is the activity of art. Without the ability to convey and receive art we would be like beasts.
Chapter 6
He starts on good art and bad art. Art that elevates the soul is good art. Art that strengthens only the body's passions is bad art. Good and bad is defined by religion, thus religion decides what is good or bad art.
Chapter 7
Beauty and good are not equal. He brings the ancient Greeks into it.
Chapter 8
One of the problems with defining art is that every culture believes they have universal art and it is not true. The art we have now is genteel art and not universal. 2/3 of the world dies without knowing it and if they had it they wouldn't know what to do with it. It is not the ordering of society, it is the type of art. it is done by rich people as a hobby and not as work. If art is that important as religion, then it should be accessible to everyone.
Chapter 9
Art has been perverted and nearly destroyed. First it lost its religiousness proper to it. Then the small group of people for which it is made and by whom perverted its form and made it obscure then it became not-natural and brain-spun. A true work of art is that that transmits a new feeling, however small the feeling may be. Enjoyment is hackneyed, but religious feeling is always fresh because it has no boundaries. Art is made for and by the upper classes, but their lives are far less broad than the life of a worker. Pride, sexuality and weariness of life took over all art of the upper class.
Chapter 10
Art became more exclusive and obscure. all art forms are working in this fashion. It cannot be that T or the other people that do not enjoy it are simply not enlightened enough. The art must be bad. "Good art always pleases everyone." The bible, folk tales and parables are understood and are the best art. Art make sense of things that cannot be understood with words. To understand bad art one must habituate oneself to it, thus it is bad. "The aim of art is to infect people with the emotion of the artist has experienced how can one talk of not understanding?"
Chapter 11
Universal art exists when someone of the people has an emotion and seeks to transmit it to others. A work of art is not if it is simply poetic, realistic, striking or interesting. There are conditions for a man to produce a work of art. He should stand on the highest life-conception for his time, he should experience feeling and want to transmit it to others, and he should have a talent for one of the art forms.
Chapter 12
The counterfeiting of art happens all the time and is what separates the upper class art from the worker class. There are three things that ensure counterfeiting of art. 1 payment for this art. 2 art criticism. 3 art schools. Universal art has a must - religious perception. Criticism is for those that cannot write and they interpret wrongly. Art cannot be taught because it is the transmission of feeling. In order to infect music must do three things. Exact pitch, time and strength needed for the particular music. Art in all forms only exists when the artist finds the infinitely minute degrees where it is perfect. Impossible to teach, can only be felt.
Chapter 13
All art is mutually exclusive of others. If two or more are combined, then one submits to the other for art. In a musical play either the music or the drama will be art, but not both. Wagner is the worst of these. He is so successful because he is able to use all the methods of counterfeiting available to someone with unlimited resources.
Chapter 14
The trouble with non-art is that it cheats and perverts and tricks people into believing it is art. One problem is that externally non-art and art might be almost the same and the non-art might even be more convincing because it uses the tricks of counterfeiting.
Chapter 15
The degree of infection is also the measure of art's worth. The stronger the infection, the better the art. The degree depends on three conditions. 1 the individuality of the feeling transmitted. 2 the clearness of the transmission. 3 sincerity of the artist. The mental condition of the artist infects the receiver. sincerity is the most important.
Chapter 16
Art serves a similar function as speech and that is of progress. To replace the old with the new and evolve towards an ever better and kinder society. The more if fulfills this need the better the art and the less, the worse. The appraisal of this feeling is religion. Religion represents the highest level of understanding of the meaning of life in any society and so it is the arbiter of what is good and what is bad. If people do not see a religious perception in society today it is because they are not looking properly, not because it is not there. If people deny what they see as religion, because they say it is outdated, then that too acknowledges the existence of perception. We should reject anything that does not go with the perception. All art unites people, they unite with the feelings of the artist and with all others that feel the same feeling. Christian art is universal because it does not exclude. It must not exclude anyone and if it is good art it will not. There are two feelings that unite all men. 1 Our sonship with God and the brotherhood of man 2 simple feelings of common life. Art should exclude any art that does not unite. Even when the subject matter is good art often is filled with ornamentation and becomes exclusive to only a few people.
Chapter 17
The consequences of bad art: 1 Money wasted in working hours. Children spend too many hours doing these things and become physically and mentally deformed and morally and incapable of doing anything good for mankind. They get praised for contributing to and assessing counterfeit art and inflate their own vanity. 2 The wealthy that spend their lives with such distractions should realize the waste of their lives and do something good. A false life. 3 the minds of the weak, poor and young are perverted and confused with the hero worship of artists. 4 Beauty gets put before good by the upper classes. 5 European art makes people think of superstition, patriotism and sensuality.
Chapter 18
Art and society is starting to move in the right direction, but not yet. People just need to consciously acknowledge that religious art is the perception that moves their lives and thus should their art for it to replace the art made now.
Chapter 19
Art of the future will be good art from religious perception that infects all people, not just certain people from certain classes. It will not be taught in schools and will not be made by professional artists. Job security and wealth are injurious to artists because they take away his ability to struggle with nature for the maintenance of his life and others. Artists will work another menial jog and be paid in the pride of helping mankind.
Chapter 20
Science and art should work together better. Science finds truth and art transmits it to emotion.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Rousseau "confessions"
Starts with intro about how he is great for offering this confession and that even god should feel that it is true. However we are meant to doubt this since no man can be entirely the condemned, judge and jury. He goes on to talk of how his parents met and how he was born in a poor family and with his birth came his mother's death. He started to read at an early age with his father and started with the romances that his mother loved. This started his love affair with Romanticism, but as they ran out of books they moved on to other religious and classic literature and history. He takes great pains to write out his transgressions on all topics mundane and serious. The most serious at this point is simply having been born and taking all the time and love from his father, which left little for his brother who grew up to be a libertine. 241
Father almost sent to prison gains banishment and so R is raised by uncle and stayed with cousin almost same age. became a very happy part of his childhood and he only wanted to do good for others, but says that he was not vain. 243 It appears that at the age of 8 he and his nurse miss lambercier age 30 had sexual relations of some sort and this was a great change in him. he didn't seek out other pleasures until he was an adult because everything reminded him of his nurse and he was sated with his memories. This stands as the most difficult part of his confessions and everything should come easier after. 245 He began to talk to girls and carry on romances with them, fight with his cousin against the kids in the town. Then he began to work as an apprentice in an engravers, but was given no liberty. He states that because the work was not bad, but the man was bad he too learned to lie and cheat and sites this as the moment when he became a degenerate. 253 he hates money because to use it means that you must exchange it and be cheated in the bargain. 257 When he became bored with his work because of the lack of freedom to do what he wanted even though he did as much as he could away from the eyes of his master he started to read again. 259 He states that his life was shaped by the master to whom he had to work. If chance had placed him with a better master he would have been contended to live his life as an engraver and probably been wealthy doing it, but alas he was not and so he suffered and lived a far more interesting life because of it. 262
BOOK II
He set off on foot away from the engraver and the town and somehow gained food and ended up in the salon of Madam de Warrens who told him to continue to do good works and to set off for Turin. 268 He had intended to take up a position as a minister and went there to be taught the ways of Catholocism. 270 However, he was not convinced he wanted to become a Catholic and tried to convert them to Protestantism. 271 In this he failed and they sent him into the streets after 2months. 273 He wandered until a pretty woman took him in. He fell something like in love with her and wanted to her with all his heart and body, but she found a place for him as a footman of an aristocrat. His trouble with women he states is that he loved them too well and this hindered his success. 276 When the woman died with whom he worked he stole a ribbon and was caught but lied and said another maid had given it to him. They were both sacked and his guilt from this is part of why he writes the story. there is no telling where she ended up, but perhaps not well since she was pretty and young. 281
BOOK III
He is given a position in a house as a footman, but is not treated like one and is given an education since he already knows a bit of somethings. He is also in a house that works for the King. He is abut 16 at this time. 283 He meets one of his old friends from the ministry, Bacle, and they take on the idea of going back to Geneva. R quits his favorable position with an insult and goes back to Geneva. He and Bacle separate. 287 He goes back to Madam de Warren and loves her like a mother, but sometimes he loves her like a woman. Because of his love for her he was chaste to loving anyone else and had no other relations. R ends up at the seminary to learn latin from the connections of the Madam. 294 He had no way to learn with a teacher and was forced to quit it, but was given a spot as a music student. 295 R was not a good music student and the teacher was drunk and he was sacked. R was sent to help him carry his stuff to Lyon. When they got there the music teacher had an epileptic fit and R ran away from the obligation and help the teacher needed. This is the third main confession he makes. 298 He sets out again for Madam De Warren, but she has left for Paris. R cannot think of anything happy that doesn't involve being near her. 298
BOOK IV
The music teacher lost his belongings and with it the work he had done since he was young and the ability to work to support himself in old age. R sets up with none of his acquaintances, but went to one of Madam's friends places. He was then set up to accompany one of their daughters to another town. They even slept in the same bed. 301 He is now 20, yet nothing happens between them. He is stuck in the town after his delivery and has no money. 303 R starts to live on a lie that he is a singer and a music teacher. 304 R moves towns and picks up with a wandering archimandrate from Jeruselum with whom he joins on a return trip to Jeruselum as his interpreter. 306 R is well received by some and taken in and so he quits the archimandrate. R is sent to Paris to do work and as he wishes to find Madam. He is as happy as he has ever been. 308 R quits paris when he finds that she had left as well. His imagination for what Paris should ahve been was too great and he was greatly dissapointed with Paris. He left on foot for Geneva or turin and found a friend of Madam's. She eventually wrote him. 312 She set him up under the employ of the king and had to work for the first real time in his life, but earned his pay. 314
BOOK V
He is now 21 years old. R soon gives up his government job and takes up music full time. he is still not very good, but all around him are bad. 320 R becomes enamoured with the stupid beauty of one of his students, but her mother loves him and see not his affair. R then comes into relations with Madam despite her relations with her footman Anet. 325 R passed 3 or 4 years this way until they moved. 330
BOOK VI
R takes ill, then reads a lot to is psychological worsening. He goes after his inheritance and finds little. 335 R goes to a cure, but finds only doctors that take money. 341 R comes back to Madam, but she now has another youth and R doesn't want to share Madam. She sets him up as a tutor with a wealthy family and he takes to it more or less. 346 It doesn't work out, so he goes back to Madam and his books. R takes up music again and comes up with a way to read that uses numbers and is bent on going to Paris to present it to the academy. 349
BOOK VII
He presented his treatise on music, but it was not taken well and so he worked on it alone. R was taken in by another woman and he became her pet for a while and made friends of others. 358 R takes on the office of attendant to the ambassador and does some gov. work. 364 He and a friend decide that they will buy a girl of 12 until she is old enough to be their concubine. They both end up loving her like a father, but the scandal gets out and he loses his job with the ambassador. 368 R focuses on his opera having no other occupation. he plays it to some people and at least one of these wants it played before the king. 374 Nothing happened with it and it was given up. he renewed his friendship with Diderot, but he was put in prison. 381
BOOK VIII
Diderot is out and R tries to help him. 383 R reads about the morality of man and how art might be involved in it and says that this treatise, which prompted him to write on the same subject ruined him. 384 He has an affair. 386 Theresa has her third child by R and they are all destitute and he leaves them to a public education. 387 He had 5 kids in all and they all went to the orphanage. 388 He writes and is well recieved 391. He takes on all of society and talks about dress. 394 He goes before the king after his first performance of his play and music. He is expected to get a stipend. 396 He refuses the stipend, but Diderot think he should take it to help others. 397 R writes with voltaire. 399
BOOK IX
He moves to the country and writes about the joys of being there although he was pulled back to the city. He also writes about the need to work, not create. 400 He retreats to the country for good and lives under the patronage of Madam d'Epinay. 404 R quits the house and moves into another supplied by a friend. R believes himself to be with few friends and is unhappy. 411
BOOK X
He is set against by some of his friends that feel that he has abandoned them and so he set himself to be a recluse, but is drawn back into the scene again. 412
BOOK XI
His book Eloise came out to some success, the best in Paris which he censured more than other places. 416 He talks of ailments and books published and that is about all. He is asked to serve again the parliament, but did it rudely and suffered. 419
BOOK XII
R writes of being hounded out of town and almost killed and being treated poorly because of what he wrote.
Father almost sent to prison gains banishment and so R is raised by uncle and stayed with cousin almost same age. became a very happy part of his childhood and he only wanted to do good for others, but says that he was not vain. 243 It appears that at the age of 8 he and his nurse miss lambercier age 30 had sexual relations of some sort and this was a great change in him. he didn't seek out other pleasures until he was an adult because everything reminded him of his nurse and he was sated with his memories. This stands as the most difficult part of his confessions and everything should come easier after. 245 He began to talk to girls and carry on romances with them, fight with his cousin against the kids in the town. Then he began to work as an apprentice in an engravers, but was given no liberty. He states that because the work was not bad, but the man was bad he too learned to lie and cheat and sites this as the moment when he became a degenerate. 253 he hates money because to use it means that you must exchange it and be cheated in the bargain. 257 When he became bored with his work because of the lack of freedom to do what he wanted even though he did as much as he could away from the eyes of his master he started to read again. 259 He states that his life was shaped by the master to whom he had to work. If chance had placed him with a better master he would have been contended to live his life as an engraver and probably been wealthy doing it, but alas he was not and so he suffered and lived a far more interesting life because of it. 262
BOOK II
He set off on foot away from the engraver and the town and somehow gained food and ended up in the salon of Madam de Warrens who told him to continue to do good works and to set off for Turin. 268 He had intended to take up a position as a minister and went there to be taught the ways of Catholocism. 270 However, he was not convinced he wanted to become a Catholic and tried to convert them to Protestantism. 271 In this he failed and they sent him into the streets after 2months. 273 He wandered until a pretty woman took him in. He fell something like in love with her and wanted to her with all his heart and body, but she found a place for him as a footman of an aristocrat. His trouble with women he states is that he loved them too well and this hindered his success. 276 When the woman died with whom he worked he stole a ribbon and was caught but lied and said another maid had given it to him. They were both sacked and his guilt from this is part of why he writes the story. there is no telling where she ended up, but perhaps not well since she was pretty and young. 281
BOOK III
He is given a position in a house as a footman, but is not treated like one and is given an education since he already knows a bit of somethings. He is also in a house that works for the King. He is abut 16 at this time. 283 He meets one of his old friends from the ministry, Bacle, and they take on the idea of going back to Geneva. R quits his favorable position with an insult and goes back to Geneva. He and Bacle separate. 287 He goes back to Madam de Warren and loves her like a mother, but sometimes he loves her like a woman. Because of his love for her he was chaste to loving anyone else and had no other relations. R ends up at the seminary to learn latin from the connections of the Madam. 294 He had no way to learn with a teacher and was forced to quit it, but was given a spot as a music student. 295 R was not a good music student and the teacher was drunk and he was sacked. R was sent to help him carry his stuff to Lyon. When they got there the music teacher had an epileptic fit and R ran away from the obligation and help the teacher needed. This is the third main confession he makes. 298 He sets out again for Madam De Warren, but she has left for Paris. R cannot think of anything happy that doesn't involve being near her. 298
BOOK IV
The music teacher lost his belongings and with it the work he had done since he was young and the ability to work to support himself in old age. R sets up with none of his acquaintances, but went to one of Madam's friends places. He was then set up to accompany one of their daughters to another town. They even slept in the same bed. 301 He is now 20, yet nothing happens between them. He is stuck in the town after his delivery and has no money. 303 R starts to live on a lie that he is a singer and a music teacher. 304 R moves towns and picks up with a wandering archimandrate from Jeruselum with whom he joins on a return trip to Jeruselum as his interpreter. 306 R is well received by some and taken in and so he quits the archimandrate. R is sent to Paris to do work and as he wishes to find Madam. He is as happy as he has ever been. 308 R quits paris when he finds that she had left as well. His imagination for what Paris should ahve been was too great and he was greatly dissapointed with Paris. He left on foot for Geneva or turin and found a friend of Madam's. She eventually wrote him. 312 She set him up under the employ of the king and had to work for the first real time in his life, but earned his pay. 314
BOOK V
He is now 21 years old. R soon gives up his government job and takes up music full time. he is still not very good, but all around him are bad. 320 R becomes enamoured with the stupid beauty of one of his students, but her mother loves him and see not his affair. R then comes into relations with Madam despite her relations with her footman Anet. 325 R passed 3 or 4 years this way until they moved. 330
BOOK VI
R takes ill, then reads a lot to is psychological worsening. He goes after his inheritance and finds little. 335 R goes to a cure, but finds only doctors that take money. 341 R comes back to Madam, but she now has another youth and R doesn't want to share Madam. She sets him up as a tutor with a wealthy family and he takes to it more or less. 346 It doesn't work out, so he goes back to Madam and his books. R takes up music again and comes up with a way to read that uses numbers and is bent on going to Paris to present it to the academy. 349
BOOK VII
He presented his treatise on music, but it was not taken well and so he worked on it alone. R was taken in by another woman and he became her pet for a while and made friends of others. 358 R takes on the office of attendant to the ambassador and does some gov. work. 364 He and a friend decide that they will buy a girl of 12 until she is old enough to be their concubine. They both end up loving her like a father, but the scandal gets out and he loses his job with the ambassador. 368 R focuses on his opera having no other occupation. he plays it to some people and at least one of these wants it played before the king. 374 Nothing happened with it and it was given up. he renewed his friendship with Diderot, but he was put in prison. 381
BOOK VIII
Diderot is out and R tries to help him. 383 R reads about the morality of man and how art might be involved in it and says that this treatise, which prompted him to write on the same subject ruined him. 384 He has an affair. 386 Theresa has her third child by R and they are all destitute and he leaves them to a public education. 387 He had 5 kids in all and they all went to the orphanage. 388 He writes and is well recieved 391. He takes on all of society and talks about dress. 394 He goes before the king after his first performance of his play and music. He is expected to get a stipend. 396 He refuses the stipend, but Diderot think he should take it to help others. 397 R writes with voltaire. 399
BOOK IX
He moves to the country and writes about the joys of being there although he was pulled back to the city. He also writes about the need to work, not create. 400 He retreats to the country for good and lives under the patronage of Madam d'Epinay. 404 R quits the house and moves into another supplied by a friend. R believes himself to be with few friends and is unhappy. 411
BOOK X
He is set against by some of his friends that feel that he has abandoned them and so he set himself to be a recluse, but is drawn back into the scene again. 412
BOOK XI
His book Eloise came out to some success, the best in Paris which he censured more than other places. 416 He talks of ailments and books published and that is about all. He is asked to serve again the parliament, but did it rudely and suffered. 419
BOOK XII
R writes of being hounded out of town and almost killed and being treated poorly because of what he wrote.
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