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THE NATION Monday 12/20/2010
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Assange and jewelry
Diderot >
Juana Libedinsky
Sunday December 19, 2010 could fail to know, as some experts argue, can be found in the first novel by Denis Diderot, but with a much more risqué.
Saki in the history of the crisis brings a family cat who learns to speak and reveal all secrets. (Nobody cares what you say in front of a cat.) These secrets oiled allowed a social relationship between homeowners and their guests.
In "Les bijoux indiscrets (indiscreet jewels), Diderot tells the story of a sultan who achieved a magic ring that gives him a genius that are starting to talk about their genitals (or" jewels ") of women of his harem, before which no one is careful what he says. Fable
The book, published in 1748, considered by some contemporary critics libertine fable level of classics like "Boccaccio" or "Rabelais," is a parody of the court of Louis XV.
The sultan's favorite instantly recognizable as Madame Pompadour, the warning of what will happen not only with many marriages, but also with institutions that rely on a share of hypocrisy to survive: it crumble. Something very similar course to what is said about the harmful effects on relations between the countries, which can cause WikiLeaks revelations, the Assange website.
However, the book is seen as a supreme example of the French Enlightenment need to seek knowledge and truth beyond hypocrisy, inhibitions and limitations of the time. And this would be the flip side, it is not very different from the arguments of the champions of the revelations he has done and WikiLeaks.
Anyway, to find an answer to these questions do not even have to go back to pre-revolutionary France. Apparently, this story has its origins in a European folk tale, imported by the Crusaders from the East, where they had since time immemorial.
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