November 30.
...a steep island without shores,
which one never reenters once one is outside.
But just as, when innocence is lost, one has [chastity] through willed innocence of pleasures, so, after unbelief has been [converted], one has faith through abstaining from all examination and voluntarily [suppressing] all doubts.
Thursday, December 1.
December 2.
T24. The two embedded roman verse lines remain inside the first prose paragraph, with their initial printed ellipsis and return to prose. Rather corrects honor to innocence; steep and without shores preserve the unusual image. Willed innocence of pleasures follows l’innocence vouluë des plaisirs without changing innocence to ignorance. [Charcoal burner’s], [chastity], [converted] and [suppressing] are contextual whole-word or phrase renderings of charbon[…] , cha[…] , […]vertie and suppre[…] . Suppressing gives a verbal counterpart to the damaged French nominal form. The first source gap also leaves the initial parenthesis’s closure unknown: the extra […] after faith exposes that unresolved punctuation rather than silently closing it. Both English marks correspond to this one French gap; the separate innocence parenthesis is intact. A bounded direct French comparison supports a modified echo of Boileau’s Satire X, but not restoration of his longer wording; the source’s altered second line remains. The complete local source-control scope is recorded separately.
T171. Two physical paragraphs remain. Paragraph 1 includes the two centered roman verse lines and the unindented return Mais within the same paragraph; internal line breaks preserve this display without inventing a third paragraph. The printed leading ellipsis, comma after bords and period after dehors remain, with no added quotation marks. The first parenthesis is opened before la simple foy ; any closing punctuation after charbon is lost and is not supplied. The second parenthesis around ou plutôt comme l’innocence is intact. The first paragraph retains foy three times, later foi , the literal phrase l’innocence vouluë des plaisirs and the repeated comparison. It is not silently changed to ignorance or another expected noun. Perduë and vouluë have distinct paired upper e components. Right-edge losses remain after charbon and cha , before next-line vertie and after suppre ; no charbonnier , chasteté , con or ssion is supplied. The last complete letters remain qualified where their contours meet the fold. Paragraph 2 retains all repeated non clauses and printed ne forms. After la before de l’innocence and after volonté the folded words are wholly uncertified. Only d is complete after les ; no missing verb ending or punctuation is restored. The gap in de[…]ficultés spans the unreadable right-edge remainder and wrapped beginning; it may cover more than one word component and an intervening boundary, so neither des nor dif is certified. After senti the missing object qualifier is left wholly unknown. The lost word after esprit .’s visible period and that after les autres , are not supplied from the contrast or causal syntax. Sûremen remains before an unreadable ending and possibly following preposition. The switch between pleasures and difficulties, eux/unes/autres and the final comparative faith/chastity opposition stays literal, including ambiguous pronoun attachment. All prose and verse are roman. Complete color 800 and original-size central/right bands plus native DjVu 332 strips have been individually read; independent bounded comparison agrees with the listed losses, named diaereses and internal roman verse placement.
T25. The analogy, choice/will pair and all six negative explanations remain. [Loss] supplies a contextual noun in a wholly lost slot. [One] denies [oneself] jointly interprets the wholly lost opening before intact prive ; no French subject or reflexive is restored. [Desire] gives damaged d[…] while them corresponds to intact les . [Difficulties] interprets de[…]ficultés , whose gap may span an article, word boundary and noun beginning; from preserves the relation without certifying des or dif . The qualifier after senti and the opener after esprit ’s period remain wholly unknown and are shown as […]; no any or But is supplied. [Because] interprets the lost opener plus intact qu’ ; [surely through] spans the incomplete sûremen and a possible following preposition. The masculine/feminine pronoun changes stay unresolved. Appearance retains the compressed appearance-to-the-mind formulation, and with God interprets à Dieu without making it an attained proof.
T26. The first-reading, novelty and recollection/distraction relations remain. [Only serious ones] broadly marks the damaged qu[…] restriction and includes the intact sérieux counterpart. [Because] spans an unknown opener and intact qu’ils ; [are] supplies a contextual verb in the wholly lost slot after quand ils . The unknown opening before lecture sérieuse remains […]. [Which gives] interprets ce qu[…] pour eux une variété ; its verb and any missing connector are not certified, and an is construction remains possible. Of a good disposition takes bien nés in the good-inclinations sense attested for a child in the complete 1798 Académie Naître entry; family origin remains an alternative sense. The awkward semicolon after the condition is printed in the source and retained. Lightness is not turned into an attention diagnosis.
T172. The complete weekday, numeral 1 and raised er remain in the printed opening date. The source’s Enfans spelling, three dashes, colon, semicolon after bien nés and degree comparison remain. All text is roman. At the right edge only qu survives before sérieux , while no full word is certified after pas , or after quand ils . Following the third dash the article or other opening is lost; before the final pour eux only qu is certified after ce . These losses may include short grammatical words and are not completed. Plain plait has a dot-like upper mark rather than a certified circumflex; retain the literal form with contour qualification. Independent bounded comparison agrees with the recorded edge losses and qualified plain-i plait ; no lost word or accent is supplied.
T27. No object is supplied after “I have read”; “it” remains after “I repeat,” followed by the source semicolon. [Mild] conjecturally interprets a wholly lost quality from the earlier salt image; no French word or comma is restored. The English likewise has no added comma before an oil. Soothing oil remains distinct from the earlier flowing oil. The backward date reference has an unknown opener, retained as […], and its intact closing parenthesis and period remain. No See or opening parenthesis is supplied. This is a reference within the paragraph, not an entry date; no exclusive November 30 target is established.
T173. The opening dash, two finite sentences, spaced source semicolon, repeated book judgment and comparative affections/reasons remain. The right-edge word after trop is wholly uncertified; a comma before next-line une is not visible and therefore no comma is supplied. The terminal parenthetic date reference is inside the paragraph and is not an entry date. The complete 30 9bre supra. ) retains baseline 9bre , period and closing parenthesis, but its preceding right-edge opening—including any initial parenthesis or reference verb—is lost. No November 30 entry is selected as an exclusive destination merely from context. All text is roman.
T28. Both singular qualities and both few quantities remain, with admirable applying to sentences and pages. It is renders intact c’est . [That] is a contextual reading of the wholly lost following slot; no French que is recovered. [Are found] broadly renders incomplete trouve[…] in the relative construction. A further […] leaves any additional connector in that same lost region unresolved, rather than silently claiming the word ending exhausts the gap. Sentences gives phrazes its syntactic sense without normalizing the French spelling. No named book is supplied.
T174. The repeated singulier , merit/fault contrast and literal phrazes with z remain. The short right-edge wording after c’est is wholly uncertified; no que is restored. The next line retains trouve before an unreadable ending and potentially following connector. The final plural rendent and singular inutile remain as printed, without smoothing the damaged construction. No date is assigned across the star. All text is roman.
T29. Both modal questions, the parenthesis, light/graces, indeed seems and all three degrees of increase remain. [Since the coming] contextually spans d[…]vènement across 800–801, without recovering depuis l’a . [Light], [duties] and [the] give […]mière , […]evoirs and […]s in whole English words. [There] broadly marks the English existential construction for the lost opener before intact y ; it does not recover a French word meaning there. True virtues and all great virtues stay distinct. The whole remains one December 2 paragraph across the page turn.
T175. The complete 2 décembre date belongs to this single paragraph, which continues over the five initial lines of 801 before its first star. The main parenthesis, double question framing and comma after que remain. At the end of 800 only d is certified; the gap through the page boundary includes any additional word material before the first legible vènement on 801, without recovering depuis/l’a or another phrase. The grave contour in vènement is identifiable but narrow and qualified. At 801 the succeeding openings retain mière , a whole lost slot before y , evoirs and s . No lu , il , d or le is restored. The first m of mière and e of evoirs are abraded but recognizable at the qualified color/native reading level. The final s before vraies has enough contour to remain; earlier faint material is distinct from readable foreground. Répanduë has two separate upper e components. All prose is roman, and neither a new date nor an extra paragraph is introduced by the page break. Independent bounded comparison agrees with these incoming continuation limits and the qualified répanduë diaeresis, without recovering a missing initial.