Bonbon

By Poe, Edgar Allen

Book Id: WPLBN0000630753
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Bonbon
Author:	Poe, Edgar Allen
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac, Je suis plus savant que Balzac Plus sage que Pibrac ; Mon brass seul faisant l'attaque De la nation Coseaque, La mettroit au sac ; De Charon je passerois le lac, En dormant dans son bac ; J'irois au fier Eac, Sans que mon coeur fit tic ni tac, Presenter du tabac. French Vaudeville THAT Pierre Bon?Bon was a restaurateur of uncommon qualifications, no man who, during the reign of ? , frequented the little Cafe in the cul?de?sac Le Febvre at Rouen, will, I imagine, feel himself at liberty to dispute. That Pierre Bon?Bon was, in an equal degree, skilled in the philosophy of that period is, I presume, still more especially undeniable. His pates a la fois were beyond doubt immaculate; but what pen can do justice to his essays sur la Nature his thoughts sur l'Ame his observations sur l'Esprit ? If his omelettes if his fricandeaux were inestimable, what litterateur of that day would not have given twice as much for an ?Idee de Bon?Bon? as for all the trash of ?Idees? of all the rest of the savants ? Bon?Bon had ransacked libraries which no other man had ransacked had more than any other would have entertained a notion of readinghad understood more than any other would have conceived the possibility of understanding; and although, while he flourished, there were not wanting some authors at Rouen to assert ?that his dicta evinced neither the purity of the Academy, nor the depth of the Lyceum? although, mark me, his doctrines were by no means very generally comprehended, still it did not follow that they were difficult of comprehension. It was, I think, on account of their self?evidency that many persons were led to consider them abstruse. It is to Bon?Bon but let this go no farther it is to Bon?Bon that Kant himself is mainly indebted for his metaphysics. The former was indeed not a Platonist, nor strictly speaking an Aristotelian nor did he, like the modern Leibnitz, waste those precious hours which might be employed in the invention of a fricasee or, facili gradu, the analysis of a sensation, in frivolous attempts at reconciling the obstinate oils and waters of ethical discussion. Not at all. Bon?Bon was Ionic Bon?Bon was equally Italic. He reasoned a priori He reasoned also a posteriori. His ideas were innate or otherwise. He believed in George of Trebizonde He believed in Bossarion [Bessarion]. Bon?Bon was emphatically a Bon?Bonist.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Bon?Bon, 1 -- Edgar Poe, 1