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the concept of chekov's revolution- an insurrection that fails, but is used as inspiration for a later revolt. we see 1789 inspire 1830 inspire 1832 inspire 1848 inspire 1871 inspire 1917 on and on and on.

the people rose, every time. not all of them. not always enough. sometimes the violence they faced was too much to overcome.

and I don't even know where I was going with this but there is value in every failure because it moves the needle one step closer to success. you could say every one of these revolutions failed in one way or another. but we keep fighting, because resistance to oppression is one of the things that make us human. people fought. people died, people lived, people tried, people rose.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

They can leap 36 feet

As in leap forward 36 feet