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Among them Hazlitt Shelley and Byron sure have me wishing I had time to read Rousseau. Several of his books defeated me back when I was reading around. But it feels like I could see him through their eyes now - and remembering that amazing moment late in Carpentier's novel.

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I have to read Carpentier. Okay, soon.

Julie is amazing (I refer to the novel, but no doubt that's not the only amazing one). But I love it where Byron says in a note to Don Juan that the Jura mountains have done for Rousseau what he could not do for them. (Lent sublimity to the work.)

Rousseau says in the Confessions: L'épée use le fourreau, dit-on quelquefois. Voilà mon histoire. Mes passions m'ont fait vivre, et mes passions m'ont tué.

That is: "The sword outwears its sheath."