An illustration from Les Pensées by Blaise Pascal. Translated by Martin Turnell. Illustrated by Ismar David. Typography by Charles E. Scaggs. Bloomfield, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1971. xix, 184 p., 30 cm.
IV. THE DUNGEON
“Let us imagine a number of men in irons, and all condemned to death,…So that the surviviors see their own state in that of their fellows, and, looking at one another in sorrow and without hope, await their turn. It is the image of the human condition.” —Pensée 314