three-sixes

Updated: April 30, 2025

Andoche, who has a great deal of wit, he got it all out of the heads tiled by his father, he is in literature; he does the minor theatres in the 'Courrier des Spectacles. His father, an old dog chock-full of reasons for not liking wit, won't believe in it; impossible to make him see that mind can be sold, sells itself in fact: he won't believe in anything but the three-sixes.

Honoré de Balzac - Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau