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#1999] Hold A World Conference On Ideas For A Peaceful and Better World In The 21st Century And Third Millennium
Friday 9 July
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~ Idea 107 ~ 25 October 1994
An idea of Barbara Gaughen is to hold before the year 2000 a World Conference on Ideas for a Peaceful and Better World in the 21st century and third millennium. It would probably be one of the most unusual and most useful conferences in human history. When I was a refugee student at a college in the city of Lyon, a famous professor of literature gave us to write an essay on "natural style". We all failed. He then explained to us with a story what he expected: at the Court of Louis XIV there was a Marquis who, when he was invited to a Court reception, spent hours in front of a mirror to arrange the folds of his jabot - a large neck garment of lace. When he arrived at the Court, everybody exclaimed: Monsieur le Marquis, comme votre jabot est naturel", how natural your jabot is!" It is the same with style.
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I approached the same Professor* one day and said to him: "I come from Alsace-Lorraine and our teachers there tell us that we will never be able to write a beautiful French, because we are bilingual." He answered: "Do not believe such rubbish. Follow my advice: select a great author whom you like and copy every day, very slowly, ten lines from his writings. Read once in a while the texts you have copied. I guarantee you that within six months you will write his style." He was right. I later did the same for German and English and kept preciously the notebooks to refresh my style in these languages.
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* See "Of Good Teachers", in Chapter I of "The Need for a Global all Humanity Education".
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