Latest in my #ReadingLesMis series: The radicalization of Marius Pontmercy
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New post! Meeting Marius Pontmercy #LesMiserables #ReadingLesMis
Gavroche and the typical Paris street urchin #ReadingLesMis #LesMiserables
Gavroche and the typical Paris street urchin https://www.hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/paris-urchins/ #ReadingLesMis #LesMiserables
Paris has the best street urchins (or at least it did in the good old days). #ReadingLesMis #LesMiserables
Paris has the best street urchins (or at least it did in the good old days). https://www.hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/paris-urchins/ #ReadingLesMis #LesMiserables
Back to #ReadingLesMis: You’ve got to get out to get in….in a coffin!
Back to #ReadingLesMis: You’ve got to get out to get in….in a coffin!
The latest article in my series on #ReadingLesMis tackles a chapter I skipped the first time through. #LesMiserables
The latest article in my series on #ReadingLesMis tackles a chapter I skipped the first time through. https://www.hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/convents/ #LesMiserables
Reading Les Mis Part 11: Getting Un-Convent-ional #ReadingLesMis #LesMis #LesMiserables
Monday repost: Valjean & Cosette hide in Paris, then exit, pursued by Javert.
Monday repost: Valjean & Cosette hide in Paris, then exit, pursued by Javert.
In this latest #ReadingLesMis installment, Valjean sure knows how to pick a hiding place
In this latest #ReadingLesMis installment, Valjean sure knows how to pick a hiding place
Ha! “Things you’ll need: Willpower. A copy of Les Miserables” – from WikiHow’s article on #ReadingLesMis
Ha! “Things you’ll need: Willpower. A copy of Les Miserables” – from WikiHow’s article on #ReadingLesMis https://www.wikihow.com/Read-Les-Miserables
Audio mismatch: reading about a convent while “Miss Disarray” plays. #ReadingLesMis
Audio mismatch: reading about a convent while “Miss Disarray” plays. #ReadingLesMis
“Javert went back to Paris. ‘Valjean is dead,’ he said to himself, ‘and I’m an ass.'” Well, you’re half-right. #ReadingLesMis
“Javert went back to Paris. ‘Valjean is dead,’ he said to himself, ‘and I’m an ass.'” Well, you’re half-right. #ReadingLesMis
Bad reception pushed my #ReadingLesMis notes offline. Probably better. I can prep the weekly articles while tweeting only the highlights.
Bad reception pushed my #ReadingLesMis notes offline. Probably better. I can prep the weekly articles while tweeting only the highlights.
Before the chase through the nighttime Paris streets, Hugo apologizes for not knowing how much is still around. #ReadingLesMis
Before the chase through the nighttime Paris streets, Hugo apologizes for not knowing how much is still around. #ReadingLesMis
Valjean brings his money to Paris sewn into the lining of his coat. I wonder if they used serial numbers in those days. #ReadingLesMis
Valjean brings his money to Paris sewn into the lining of his coat. I wonder if they used serial numbers in those days. #ReadingLesMis
Hugo ponders whether Valjean’s no-good-deed-goes-unpunished experience would have sent him back into bitterness w/o Cosette. #ReadingLesMis
Hugo ponders whether Valjean’s no-good-deed-goes-unpunished experience would have sent him back into bitterness w/o Cosette. #ReadingLesMis
Hugo specifically compares it to the incident w/the bishop: The bishop taught him virtue, Cosette taught him to love. #ReadingLesMis
Hugo specifically compares it to the incident w/the bishop: The bishop taught him virtue, Cosette taught him to love. #ReadingLesMis
“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.” #ReadingLesMis
“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.” #ReadingLesMis
“If such a hell exists, that stretch of the Boulevard de l’Hopital might have been the road leading to it.” #ReadingLesMis
It’s to this cheerful spot that Valjean brings Cosette. Still better than the Thenardiers’ inn, though. #ReadingLesMis
Great. “An interesting & picturesque feature of buildings of this kind is the enormous size of the spiders that infest them.” #ReadingLesMis
Great. “An interesting & picturesque feature of buildings of this kind is the enormous size of the spiders that infest them.” #ReadingLesMis
So, back to #ReadingLesMis. Left off with Valjean rescuing Cosette from the Thenardiers:
So, back to #ReadingLesMis. Left off with Valjean rescuing Cosette from the Thenardiers: https://www.hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/escaping-montfermeil/