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.

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also, i really want there to be more vampires and so on who, instead of speaking in a charming, cultured, but vaguely old-fashioned way because they are a 275-year-old consciousness in an undead, unaging 19-year-old body, talk in embarrassingly misapplied or outdated slang and pop culture references in a failed effort to blend in with their apparent peer group

…or who speak pretty normally most of the time, but lapse into saying stuff like “GOD’S WOUNDS, YOU CUR“ when they get upset enough

Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve

Thanks, it’s nice to get some more insight into the background, especially since I didn’t get to see Ramin’s Les Mis even once. (I did think I’d heard a gentler version that I preferred. But this seems incredibly intense, almost angry in one part, and it’s good to know that that might have been a particular reaction to Kyle.) 

For the whole evening after I’d heard about Kyle’s death, I was wondering how Ramin and the rest of the cast were performing that day. Bring Him Home was stuck in my head through the next day, and I didn’t realize why for ages. :/ I’m glad he acknowledged the particular poignancy of that song, on that stage, with the lyric change that day. Although picturing it, I wonder how the rest of the cast kept it together. :/

thanks for reblogging that bring him home with the line change for Kyle Jean-Baptiste. very sad now, but glad to have heard it. do you feel like there was a difference in how he sang the rest of the piece from how he normally does?

Well, at the time I didn’t know that anything was wrong at all, and since then so much happened that I’m not quite certain of my recollections anymore? I remember now that I was really confused by him changing that line and wondered why he had messed up the lyrics after singing them thousands of times, but I literally forgot that had happened until someone else found that in my audio of it. I do remember that it was an amazing show, but at the time I thought it was just that, everyone doing their best and doing an amazing job on stage. :/ And while there are loots of boots where I feel like Ramin is overdoing it in BHH (it’s a prayer, after all, no need to shout it), everytime I’ve heard it in that final week he’d toned it down and sang it gently and with feeling. But this version and his final BHH are definitely the most emotional versions I’ve ever heard him sing.

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