paperandsong

…and P. de St. V. wrote to understand the change that has come over Daae, it must be supposed that she has just discovered love for the first time! I am perhaps being indiscreet’, he went on, ‘but only love could bring about such a miracle, so overwhelming a transformation.

are you trying

‘Here I am, Erik,’ she said. ‘I’m ready It’s you who are late, not I.’

[…] Christine’s face lit up. A happy smile settled on her bloodless lips, a smile such as ill patients smile when they begin to hope that the sickness that struck them down will not carry them off.

to tell me

‘I believe Christine really loves him!…Everything points to it. But that’s not my main concern. What I’m not sure of is whether the man Christine loves is worthy of her!’

‘You must let me be the judge of that, sir!’ said Christine

something

‘Then why are telling me all this?…You love him, it’s obvious! Your fear, your terror, it’s just another sort of love, the most delectable kind, a kind that you won’t admit to,’ Raoul explained bitterly

or I am just

'You’re afraid of him… but do you love me?…If Erik was handsome, Christine, would you love me?’

'How can you say that?…Why tempt fate?… Why ask me things I keep hidden deep in my heart, where people always hide their sins?’

imagining

'Be careful, Christine, you’re turning him back into a spirit.’

'He’s no spirit. He’s a man who belongs to heaven and earth, nothing more.’

things

[…] as I knelt before her, I heard her say: “Poor, unhappy Erik!”  and she took me by the hand!

Qué rabia me da cuando un autor no termina su fanficción o lo borra y nos deja a todos tristes 😭 pero yo aunque no soy escritora le pido a la IA que me haga una historia con los personajes y la trama que quiero y asi ya no sufro jajaja 🤙🏻

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Lindsay Ellis Alladin vs. The thief and the Cobbler video (in relation to a discussion about orientalism)

The chronological error in chapter 22, noted by @fdelopera - Daroga asks Erik about the chandelier before Chritine een see Erik's face, let alon is kidnapped (which should happend for the first time right after the chandelier fall)

Notes from the different bookclub for chapters 22, 23 and 24 (this lasy one has an exellent model of Erik's room!)

Erik jokingly referring to his lake as the lake Avernus in Italy - reference to the entrance to the Underworld as per writers such as Vergil and Homer (this painting is by J. M. W. Turner)

The 'you great booby!' sentence and it's different translations from @paperandsong (it's still'great booby' for me, no matter what Coward says)

Kyrie eleison is the start of a Roman catholic mass, and is in Greek - apparently, because Rome was essentially bilingual until 3-4th century AD, with most common filk (who formed the main audience of the church) speaking common Greek

The Hong Hoa Tham, the De Tham that Erik claims to have taught to se the reed breathing trick along with his trop of men, and which had helped them escape the authorities supposedly, - is actually a Viietnamese leader of revolutinary resistance who fought against the French occupation, and is currently viewed as a national hero i Vietnam (thank you Ribiere notes once again).

The beauty and the beast fairytale had been written in 1740 by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve , so Daroga might be referring to the actual fairytale

The difficulty of translating the 'genie' part of the 'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik!' was discussed by WIll

I had not known thet Harry Houdini took his name in honour of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin - very cool

The torture chamber post from Alex! And another one!

as @englishmajorloser noted, the continuous poking by erik about the people with noses and how they fall into his torture chamber

How wet Erik is all the time!

Also, on reading @or-what-you-will's discussions of the translations - I hadn't even known what will-o'-the-wisp was, - both a ghostly, flickering light seen over the bogs, and a metaphore for the unatteinable (from chapter 1 I think) (painting by Hermann Hendrich).