#assumesarcasm

eee, look at this! ;3;/

Sarc has a VERY SOLID PROUVAIRE and skull cups, real or plaster, are NOT SUCH A GREAT IDEA AS THEY MIGHT SEEM and ruins one's eccentric clothing even if it DOES have the lovely effect of making the skulls appear to bleed when you drink red and in my 'verse there's really only one guy whose clothes Sarc's Prouvaire can even kind of borrow and THAT'S JUST WEIRD. SORRY SARC MINE IS NOT AS PRETTY but I tried and therefor I AM REALLY REALLY SORRY.

RIGHT so this won't make as much sense with my catchup post being a birdsnest now BUT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS OKAY I NEEDED TO TALK ABOUT IT HOURS AGO BECAUSE 3.1.9 OKAY THE ANCIENT SOUL OF GAUL says the gamin is "Like the little Theban, he shakes the lion’s skin" The little Theban is of course Hercules or you know Hercle that sacred son of a dog? SO basically we are told along the course of this story There are two roads for the gamin one,spelled out explicitly, being Montparnasse: the gamin, turned vagabond, turned murderer the other, in mentions and clues starting in Paris Atomized (the flaneur-ing, the tearing up of paving stones, the disgust/hatred for the bourgeoisie and the cures,the vices-to-the-point-of-virtue, the twin desires to OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT AND GET HIS TROUSERS SEWN my GOSH) (and oh the laughing, the laughing that is not carefree)   being of course Bahorel-the best possible clay for the devil, the scoundrel turned hero ( if coteries produced heroes) who on the way to the fight invokes, introduces to Gavroche their mutual hero- Hercle, he says, that's just me getting warmed up, that's just the start,  and Gavroche asks what that means and he says THAT MEANS ATTACK BY IMPUDENCE, SACRED SONS OF A DOG  ( and remember Eponine's speech-- Gavroche is the child of dogs, oh yes) THAT MEANS US and the thing is Gavroche sees both these options, RECOGNIZES both these options as his possibilities. To paraphrase AssumeSarcasm, these are the men he could become, these are the lives he can have without becoming Respectable (which will never happen) without becoming Defeated (which he refuses to allow), and he latches onto the hero’s path INSTANTLY. And after a lifetime on the track that would lead him to Montparnasse after seeing the hero’s path end in blood, because Bahorel dies in front of him and I mean PHYSICALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM after being sent away from the barricades and being told to STAY away and having every chance and reason to leave Gavroche still chooses the hero’s path, he comes BACK to the barricade, he heads into the light beyond the shadow and the grapeshot does not dampen his cheer and he beats the drum to his own death he skips up the steps to eternity And he doesn’t for a moment ask who he is. The road to Arras opens and he KNOWS. Hercle. 

[8/11/2013 9:18:32 PM] Roberta Wickham: And then the government claimed Lallemand was a revolutionary and had attacked the soldier [8/11/2013 9:19:18 PM] AssumeSarcasm: omg the censorship's excuse for this is the worst thing I've ever heard about though [8/11/2013 9:20:39 PM] Roberta Wickham: Also, I think (though I'm not sure) that it was the biggest *landowners* in particular who were given a double vote...which should have special meaning for Bahorel as a peasant, right? [8/11/2013 9:20:39 PM] AssumeSarcasm: when the truth came out, they said they published the story that he tried to attack the soldier (and refused the real one) bc it was more 'plausible' and 'they didn't want to misinform the public' [8/11/2013 9:20:54 PM] Pilfering Apples: ...WOW [8/11/2013 9:20:59 PM] Roberta Wickham: Hahahahahaha wow [8/11/2013 9:21:09 PM] AssumeSarcasm: with strong emphasis on 'we didn't want to misinform the public' [8/11/2013 9:21:48 PM] Pilfering Apples: What did the school do about all this? [8/11/2013 9:22:22 PM] Roberta Wickham: Not sure, but the government tried its damnedest to crack down on student radicals [8/11/2013 9:22:41 PM] AssumeSarcasm: mostly, they were all medical and law students in this (the workers came after) [8/11/2013 9:23:06 PM] AssumeSarcasm: (some architecture students are mentionned at some point) [8/11/2013 9:23:13 PM] Roberta Wickham: Oh wait [8/11/2013 9:23:15 PM] Roberta Wickham: I found something [8/11/2013 9:23:50 PM] duckwhatduck: i think the ecole de beaux-arts was also involved? [8/11/2013 9:24:10 PM] Roberta Wickham: Four students were expelled from the law school after being arrested for their involvement in the protests [8/11/2013 9:24:58 PM] Roberta Wickham: And then: http://books.google.com/books?id=n4UV835uO9oC&pg=PA271&dq=lallemand+1820&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RkUIUvyjEZDW9ASYmYGAAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=lallemand%201820&f=false [8/11/2013 9:25:15 PM] Roberta Wickham: Which, if you don't feel like following the link and picking through the book: [8/11/2013 9:25:37 PM] Roberta Wickham: Says that, when the law students in a "final act of defiance" held a memorial for Lallemand... [8/11/2013 9:26:36 PM] Roberta Wickham: ...the rector of the law school reported to the dean with 'irritation' that the service was well-attended and that the students (and this is a direct quote from the rector) were 'troublemakers' and animated by the 'spirit of faction' [8/11/2013 9:26:57 PM] Roberta Wickham: And this was published in a newspaper at the time, so people knew the law school reacted like this So THAT'S THE FIRST THING HUGO TELLS US ABOUT BAHOREL- he was there for this double- whammy betrayal of fairness and the future by the The Powers That Were. And if you don't think I am going to get flailosophical about this A LOT you must be a very new follower indeed.