The Mechanics of the Sage

e The Mechanics of the SageThe Night of the MisotropicEdinburgh, early 20th century. Charles Hamilton has everything to be happy: financial comfort that protects him from need, full nights and idle days just the right amount. And However, after the party, it's downhill. Victim of mood disorders, ups and downs, Charles Hamilton feels alternate. Disappointed by love, Charles is nevertheless the father of a little Sophia, but does not see what the problem is fill this existential void that inhabits him. What he needs is an example – a master, a wise man, there, at the bottom of his garden. Inspired by history (real) of Charles Hamilton and his “ornamental hermit”, Gabrielle Piquet tracking down very modern evils – search for perpetual well-being, positivism at all costs – and questions us about this dictatorship of happiness which would like to eradicate from our lives all forms of asperity, as if life could not, could not must have been only joy and bliss. We find in all the qualities which already made the charm of: a design with retro influences while elegance, a melodious writing of great finesse, with a touch of bonus irony and a deadpan humor with the most beautiful effect.