Tale from Balzac: Bette

Balzac and human gait analysis.

INTRODUCTION People have been interested in movement analysis in general, and gait analysis in particular, since ancient times. Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Leonardo da Vinci and Honoré de Balzac all used observation to analyse the gait of human beings. The purpose of this study is to compare Honoré de Balzac's writings with a scientific analysis of human gait. SOURCES Honoré de Balzac's Th...

Balzac and the Crimes of the Powerful

This paper proposes a journey through some of the many novels written by Honoré de Balzac, through the mythic constitution of his world, his epic, which summons up the same recurrent circle of figures: his “human comedy” will offer surprising insights for a better understanding of the crimes of the powerful.

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale

From Faerie Tale to Adventure Game

Traveller's Tale from You Nice States

"The Instoot?" said the pathologist slipping imperceptibly into mid-Atlantic drawl. Two years in the federal capital at the taxpayers' expense had left their mark. "Would you believe that the world's largest, most specialized and most expensive histopathology lab is an Army Unit?" "Really?" murmured the guest, himself ex-RN. "Marvellous how those chaps always fiddle things." "Well tri-Service r...