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Honoré de Balzac On Coffee – A Terrible And Cruel Method

The Icarian Posted on February 19, 2026 by adminFebruary 19, 2026

Coffee was central to prolific French writer Honoré de Balzac’s method of working. Balzac is said to have consumed as many as 50 cups of coffee per day. It’s not surprising then that coffee may have played a significant role … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, culture, history, writers, writing | Tagged "Blazac’s Treatise on Modern Stimulants", Brillat-Savarin, coffee, France, Honoré de Balzac, Kassy Hayden, The Physiology of Taste, writer, writing

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Previously

  • Honoré de Balzac On Coffee – A Terrible And Cruel Method February 19, 2026
  • Miller And Goebbels: A One-Sided Love Story October 29, 2025
  • The Coming Subprime Car Loan Collapse October 17, 2025
  • Martial Law Would End America As We Know It October 16, 2025
  • Honoré de Balzac – The Human Comedy: Books That Killed Their Authors #8 September 9, 2025
  • Lammas or Lughnasadh? Let The Harvest Begin July 31, 2025
  • Flag Day 2025 June 15, 2025
  • Moron Trade And Tariffs – Economic Sabotage Or Just Stupid? May 4, 2025
  • My Global Normcore Men’s Clothing – Countries Of Origin May 2, 2025
  • What’s Going On With Shipping? Better Watch Sal April 30, 2025
  • Split Size Shoe Orders and Tariffs – Beating The Tax On My Feet April 15, 2025
  • 56 Hours In The Emergency Room – Suffering On A Mass Scale April 4, 2025
  • Truman Capote – Answered Prayers: Books That Killed Their Authors #7 February 2, 2025
  • The Last Weekend Of The United States January 18, 2025
  • Design For Disaster – The 1961 Bel Air Conflagration January 17, 2025
  • Franz Kafka – A Hunger Artist: Books That Killed Their Authors #6 January 6, 2025
  • The Twilight Zone Of Our Democracy – The Brand Is Upon Us December 5, 2024
  • Halloween Came From An Irish Hole In The Ground October 27, 2024
  • Who Was FDR’s FIRST Vice President? No Googling September 5, 2024
  • The Guano Islands Act August 18, 2024
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors #5 August 15, 2024
  • The 1934 Business Plot To Overthrow The U.S. Government August 12, 2024
  • The Index of Forbidden Books – The Original Banned Book List August 8, 2024
  • Jane Austen – Persuasion and Sanditon: Books That Killed Their Authors #4 August 5, 2024
  • When Your Emotional Support Animal Needs Your Emotional Support July 16, 2024

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25 March 2026 @ 8:57 pm

You really should be triggered by this warning:
https://substack.com/@dissentinbloom/note/c-232826995?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1cnb9h

25 March 2026 @ 12:11 am

ISRAELIS SAY GOD GAVE THEM THE LAND.IF TRUE - LET THEM FOR MONEY AND WEAPONS
ASK GOD INSTEAD OF THE USA.NO MORE MONEY OR WEAPONS

24 March 2026 @ 11:38 pm

While Robert Mueller was risking his life in combat, Trump was following in his father's footstep in New York perfecting the art of keeping Black families out of his father's apartment buildings.

24 March 2026 @ 11:23 pm

Israel as it was-is finished.
It will be remembered as the most hated nation of this generation.
Not because of religion- but because of what it chose to do.
You cannot starve an entire people and expect the world to stay silent. You cannot commit genocide in full view of humanity and escape the judgment of history.
Israel has become the embodiment of its own greatest fear. It has become the Germany of 1940.
Not because it is Jewish, but because it abandoned its humanity.

24 March 2026 @ 9:19 pm

https://youtu.be/aaKrmYwaOkk?si=Nx2iADys7kGVeUnn

23 March 2026 @ 11:13 pm

https://youtu.be/mXbpEzVHuzM?si=H3qJWsNdlFhTlDnD

23 March 2026 @ 11:12 pm

AIR TRAVEL IN AMERICA
Wait in line for 3 hours to be patted down and maybe be kidnapped by ICE. If you aren't kidnapped, maybe your plane will crash into a fire truck on the tarmac responding to a call about a fire on a different plane.
The Fascist has successfully turned US airspace into the Strait of Hormuz.

23 March 2026 @ 7:54 pm

Thanks to Wired for reporting what has been known by privacy advocates both in and out of Congress for weeks. Democrat Jim Himes is quietly whipping votes to help Donald Trump and Kash Patel spy on Americans using ChatGPT. Absolutely shameful.

23 March 2026 @ 3:00 am

Humans were given a planet overflowing with trees, fruit, water, medicine, and sunshine and then invented debt, capitalism, and war.And we wonder why space aliens keep a low profile.

23 March 2026 @ 2:38 am

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