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Tandis que les gens de bonne volonté et les amants de la vérité et de la connaissance font reculer les bonnes de l’inconnu et versent du baume aux cœurs, beaucoup de méchants se lancent dans des activités maléfiques pour heurter le plus de gens possibles. Ils tournent autour de leurs victimes potentielles comme des coyotes autour de leurs proies et, un jour, tombent dessus sans crier gare. Ils usent de la patience comme les esprits positifs, sauf que ces derniers recherchent la vérité pour elle-même, tandis que les premiers pensent à leurs jouissances sadiques à assurer coûte que coûte.
Ce roman, d’une grande valeur philosophique, ne manque pas d’accorder au doute une grande importance. Il se met au service de la vérité scientifique, comme il est une source d’angoisse, de frustration et de pessimisme. Dans ce monde où nous vivons, on n’aime pas la vérité pour elle-même, parce qu’elle libère la conscience et remet les choses à leurs vraies places et dimensions. Au contraire, on éprouve de la gêne et de la contrainte à la dire partout. La société parfois pu | |  | | Voodoo, within the boundaries of law
As far as everybody was concerned, Theodore Merlin's stomachache was a case of minor ailment, an indigestion, a bloated stomach, after having savored two mangoes out of three received as gifts from his first cousin. For the patient, his days were numbered. He had an intuition: he strongly believed that he had been inoculated with the most potent poison in the world, under the cover of voodoo. He was right. However, before dying, he made his closed friend and cousin-in-law, a lawyer, swear to avenge his death within the boundaries of laws.
This story, “Voodoo, within the boundaries of the Laws” represents a realistic attempt to dramatize the meaning of justice, as an application of rationality, righteousness, equitableness, and moral orientation to social intercourse, as the same qualities do wonders in mathematical and logical disciplines, as well as in experimental and social sciences. Justice predicates that, even if reality has shown clearly that God or Nature hasn’t necessarily created all men and women equal, however, people, in principle, should remain equal under the law. Although people with wealth |
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