Why exactly did Blaise Pascal carry with him the testimony of a life-transforming religious experience written in two slightly different versions and hidden in the lining of his coat? By tracing the unease with which this question has been met---or most often, dodged---by 350 years' worth of readers, this essay argues that Pascal's so-called Mémorial still today presents us with the necessity to rethink the commemorative and transformative function of texts in general.
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