Love Examples Of Earlier Transformative Works!

Love examples of earlier transformative works! 

This is part 7 of I’m not sure how many. Note this is the same publication that ran the “spiders Grantaire” article.

Translation: 1) Valjean gripes about M. Victor Hugo, who roasted his arm for the reader’s entertainment. [T/N: I guess this is a reference to the scene at the Gorbeau house?] 2) With all confidence, Valjean finds King Charles X [well uh not king anymore since the arm-burning incident happened in 1832], uses Charles’ brother, his friend Louis XVIII, as a reference, and asks him if he would be willing to take on the task of amusing the reader until his arm heals. 3) Charles X, who is truly the best of men, takes charge of the reader, tells him about the capture of Trocadero, the “Unobtainable Chambre” [of ultraroyalist deputies] of 1827, and a bunch of things that could not have less to do with Victor Hugo’s novel. 4) King Charles X takes advantage of the Revolution of 1830 to walk out on the reader.

This is the most awesome thing I've seen in ages.

I'll just add that some scholars of the French and British Enlightenment theorize that empathy among educated elites for people of lower classes was actually created on a mass scale for the first time because of novels.

For the first time, people from more privileged positions in those societies were experiencing stories from the points of view of poorer, female main characters (such as the title character of "Pamela"). Identifying with those characters and seeing them as people. Undergoing hardships with them and so feeling their pain and the injustices of their situations. Reading novels was a novel (pardon the pun) way of shifting paradigms that went way beyond the impact of moralizing tracts or histories. Pretty powerful and dangerous stuff.

how is it possible to love fictional characters this much and also have people always been this way?

like, did queen elizabeth lie in bed late sometimes thinking ‘VERILY I CANNOT EVEN FOR MERCUTIO HATH SLAIN ME WITH FEELS’ 

was caesar like ‘ET TU ODYSSEUS’ 

sometimes i wonder

aND THEN FIRE! SHOT DOWN! FROM THE SKY IN BOLTS! LIKE SHINING BLADES OF THE NIGHT!

“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.”

― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

More Les Mis + Wolfpupy Tweets, for absolutely no reason and I'm sorry

The Bishop: you have to be cruel to be kind, no wait the other thing, you have to do nice things. phew, could have caused a lot of problems

Javert:my disregard for gravity was the true cause of my downfall

Tholomyes: irreparable damage has been done in that i cant be bothered to fix it

Thenardier: as the number one spiritual figure in your life my spiritual guidance and advice is to send me money

Gavroche: cant live in ribcage of dinosaur skeleton at the museum, cant live in giant inflatable gorilla at the caryard. no place for me in this world

Gillenormand : in a way aren't we all responsible for my actions

Mabeuf: hoping birds dont notice your coin purse is just a hot pocket with the filling emptied out

Marius: looks like it is going to be smooth sailing from now on for me and some eggs i have put all into one basket

Theodule: some say i am so shallow and vapid in life but i literally just love to be that like all the time right now its so true

Eponine:if you want something done you have to just forget about it and move on with your life, theres no point in expecting anything from anyone

Montparnasse: my street gang has been walking down the street snapping our fingers in unison for like 3 days, we all forgot why we were doing it

Enjolras: i am too busy living an important life to care about the solstice

Combeferre: some say killing people is the answer to the problems, me personally i think killing people is bad to do because im not a horrible monster

Jean Prouvaire: dead people taking up all the good graves, some of us alive folks want to be in the grave too you know

Feuilly: i could sit on power lines too if the world would stop keeping me down

Courfeyrac: it happens to the best of us, the best of us such as me, out of both of us im the best one, probably too great to give you usable advice

Bahorel: if the bible has taught us anything its that you have to fight for your right to party. a song? oh then i guess it taught us nothing then

Bossuet: there should be a limit to the number of curses and hexes you can have put on you, this is getting ridiculous

Joly: back in the frankenstein times you could make a monster whenever you wanted, these days you have to have a license or something i guess

Grantaire: everything is going to be ruined so just dont worry, have a relax

Louis Phillipe: when the sun goes out, the air turns to fire, and the streets run red with blood, i am probably to blame for it

National Guard: stop being so defensive i am just trying to hit you with weapons

Cosette: i am a big fan of all the famous internet cats and hope they live long and happy lives

Valjean : my whole life has lead up to this moment, being dead in a grave

writes academic paper about how people’s #about me tag represents their idealized/externalized self, whereas their #same tag represents their subconscious self or id 

boy: you got any fantasies ;)

me: ok so, im in an alternate universe where i have to fight with my friends for a better future and i have a huge sword