Adam Lanza’s father gave an interview to CNN today, and interest in the Sandy Hook massacre has been rekindled. Here I give a roundup of opinion following the horrific event not so long ago. Hundreds have been looking for a photo of Adam Lanza. Demonic possession suspected?
Candide
, chapter 20, transl. Robert M. Adams (Norton, 1966):
[Candide:] “You must be possessed of the devil.
[Martin, the disillusioned scholar and Manichean:] He’s mixed up with so many things of this world that he may be in me as well as elsewhere; but I assure you, as I survey this globe, or globule, I think that God has abandoned it to some evil spirit—all of it except Eldorado. I have scarcely seen one town which did not want to destroy its neighboring town, no family which did not want to exterminate some other family. Everywhere the weak loathe the powerful, before whom they cringe, and the powerful treat them like brute cattle, to be sold for their meat and fleece. A million regimented assassins roam Europe from one end to the other, plying the trades of murder and robbery in an organized way for a living, because…
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