fragmentary writing
The book, "Pensées" (French: Pensées), is a posthumous book compiled and published by Blaise Pascal (Blaise) after his death from a number of fragmentary descriptions he wrote down in preparation for the publication of his book. Les Essais" or "The Essays" (French: Les Essais) is a collection of 107 essays published by the French moralist Michel de Montaigne in 1580. Montaigne invented the essay, a form of short, subjective writing on a specific topic, and this book contains his essays. By reflecting on all human activity in intermittent sentences, Montaigne attempted a frank description of man himself, opening the tradition of moralist literature. The French word essai means "attempt" or "scheme. 2018-07-28
Also, it would be interesting to import the fragmented writing around here into Scrapbox one page at a time linking. ---
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