Rameau's Niece by Cathleen Schine

Author:Cathleen Schine [Schine, Cathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In her dream, the Frenchman on the airplane stared at her as if she were a jewel he was appraising. His green-and-white-striped shirt rubbed suggestively against her bare arm. He examined her as if she were a jewel, with a jeweler's glass, while she lay naked on the hotel bed and his green-and-white-striped shirt stretched alluringly across his stomach.

"Enlightenment," said the Frenchman, "is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage."

I know, she thought.

"Nonage," he said, "is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance."

I know.

"Kant."

Kant.

"Kant said, 'Dare to know,'" said the Frenchman, handing her the jeweler's glass, but keeping hold of her hand once the jeweler's glass was in it. "Dare to know."

"Okay."

"FOLLOW ME!" he said, and pulled her into a little orange car with peeling paint.

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