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Candide: Meanings
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Aside from being a successful traditional – and very humorous – satire, Candide has had a significant influence on modern writers of black humor such as Céline, Heller, Barth, Pynchon, Vonnegut, and Southern. Its parody and picaresque methods have become favorites of black humorists.[75]
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Candide now has hi-res timer support. As a result, he can now monitor the channel for excessive rapid traffic originating from an individual and automatically quiet the offender for a certain length of time.
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Candide and Pangloss are arrested for their uncommon philosophy, and set to be executed in an "auto-da-fé," a ceremony designed to publicly eliminate heretics to appease God and prevent another disaster. Candide is flogged, and sees Pangloss hanged. Another earthquake follows. Candide is then approached by "old woman", (Fr. vieille), who asks him to follow her.
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As his encounter at Dulles had taken up a good deal of his day, Candide was forced to rush to the designated meeting place, in the Oval Office of the White House. It was a warm, humid day, and the sweat poured down Candides' face as he ran past police officers brutally beating neo-environmentalist-feminist-multiculturalist-pacifist protestors in the streets. As he was running down the street, Candide was reflecting on the great American tradition of freedom of speech when he tripped and nearly fell into an uncovered sewer access point. Candide cursed and immediately yelled, "Why is this manhole uncovered?"
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The round-robin testimonial of the six kings is a strange interlude in Candide. On the one hand, it points to the democratizing effects of misery and adversity, as former kings and heads of state now find themselves destitute and penniless; on the other, it is unclear whether we are to take seriously the sympathetic response shown to their respective tales of hardship. Clearly, Voltaire does not believe in the social entitlement and privilege that nobility automatically confers on certain individuals. The political power of the six kings is hence, in a certain sense, illegitimate in the first place, and their "downfall" not really a downfall at all.
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In their flight, Candide and Cacambo come across two naked women being chased and bitten by a pair of monkeys. Candide, seeking to protect the women, shoots and kills the monkeys, but is informed by Cacambo that, given the area they are in, it is probably not unlikely that the monkeys and women were lovers. That night, the pair are tied up by the savage Oreillons, who are prepared to eat them before Cacambo convinces them to let the two go.
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