![]() ![]() But, up until her last few weeks on earth, she clung fiercely to her faith and insisted that this was the " best of all possible worlds," and that "God's got it under control. Candide has a far closer relationship with contemporary books of literature and philosophy. She was once given 6 months to live she lived more than 3 years after that prognosis. She battled two different types of cancer, for 7 years straight. ![]() Voltaire’s famous satire Candide chronicles the adventures of a paranoid pessimist, Candide, and a persistent Pollyanna, Pangloss. Candide is constantly thwarting Pangloss and his sunny views his trademark expression is: optimism is a mania for insisting everything is good when we're wretched. But it's always been my personal tribute to my mom (my initialsake, The Original MAJ). ![]() ![]() Who knew.)īut this week we lost the matriarch of my family, The Original MAJ.Ī lot of people think that my social media moniker refers to me. I've spent all my time posting pics on Insta and enjoying my racing and training (after I stopped opining about it all day long, I achieved a small amount of success. Powerful members of the nobility start wars, but common soldiers and subjects suffer the consequences. The world of the army is full of evil, cruelty, and suffering. Of course, I haven't blogged in lit'rally YEARS. Candide’s experiences in the army and the war directly contradict Pangloss’s teaching that this world is the best of all possible worlds. This has long been a blog about a mania for insisting that everything is good. ![]()
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