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The next Saturday,
from 8 to 11,
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Our Hero socialized
with a priest friend.
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They'd met as students,
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when they were 20.
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The restaurant was good.
No problem there.
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But was he still my friend?
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After graduating,
he entered a seminary.
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He branched off.
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Now he's a priest in Vitry.
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Not an easy parish.
:17:38
Society's so-called
"obsession with sex"
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in advertising,
magazines and the other media,
:17:45
is just a fiction.
:17:47
Most people quickly tire of it,
:17:50
but pretend they don't.
An odd, inverted hypocrisy.
:17:56
Our civilization, actually,
:17:59
is tired of life.
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Under Louis XIV,
the lust for life was huge
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but carnal pleasure
was firmly condemned.
:18:09
Worldliness was seen to be imperfect
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and God, the one true
source of happiness.
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An impossible message today!
:18:22
We need adventure and eroticism
:18:26
to keep reminding us
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our lives are fun and thrilling,
:18:31
because we rather doubt it.
:18:57
Nowadays,
everyone feels like a failure.