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[septmim17]

"...a man of lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy cane, and wearing a battered hat,... with folded arms and a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace..."

P. S. While merely reading I felt nothing but when I tried to imitate the lip raising thing I found he's indeed a genius in controlling facial expressions.

[thesebloodydays]

Forgot that éclair also means flash and thought Hugo was talking about the pastry there for a moment

[exandriacityshowdown]

Round 1 Stage 5 Poll 5

Aeor vs. Allowak's Sanctuary

Aeor

Allowak's Sanctuary, Wildemount

Voting ended onAug 28, 2023

Aeor: Aeor was a pre-calamity flying city known for its anti-god sentiments and military aggression. It was destroyed in the war, and its ruins landed scattered on the inhospitable islands of Eiselcross. The Mighty Nein explored the ruins extensively during the Weird Magic arc towards the end of their story. In recent years, artifacts dug out of the ruins have been traded around Exandria, including sentient automatons Devexian, FRIDA, and Fresh Cut Grass of Bells Hells. 

image is from the postcard merch by pretty useful co

Allowak's Sanctuary, Wildemount: Allowak’s Sanctuary is a secret yeti village in Eiselcross. The Mighty Nein passed nearby but did not visit.

[lezmiz]

on Javert’s cannibalistic tendencies

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

Brickclub: 1.5.5

“Il se nommait Javert, et il était de la police."

“His name was Javert, and he was one of the police.” Wilbour

“His name was Javert and he was with the police.” Rose

“His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.” Hapgood.

“His name was Javert, and he was with the police." Donougher.

This is starting to seem like one of those diagnostic sentences that you can use to tell which translation you’ve got at a glance. 

With that out of the way, let’s dive in. And this is all going under a cut, because it got long.

Let’s start with the title. Because wow is there a lot going on with this title. First of all, most obviously, it’s light symbolism! Our first in a while. The light symbolism is not a consistent motif in this chapter, but it does tie Javert back with Jean Valjean. It’s sort of the opposite of what @lawisnotmocked talked about with the flashes of dog imagery we get in Valjean’s introduction. That was foreshadowing Javert, this is calling back to Valjean. These two men are surrounded by completely different symbolic languages, yet they keep being tied back to one another.

The chapter title, in French, is this: “Vagues éclairs à l'horizon.” All the ‘vague flashes on the horizon’ people are spot-on, but they’re missing some layers. Because ‘vagues’ does indeed mean vague (God, talking about cognates in writing is confusing) but it also means waves, as in water waves. Eclairs, meanwhile, usually means lightning. And lightning has been used in some interesting ways so far.

-It shows up in G’s speech about the revolution: “Son fouet plein d'éclairs était un rude diseur de vérités.” “His [Christ’s] whip full of lightning was a harsh speaker of truths.” (my trans)

-It shows up when Jean Valjean is told about the fate of his sister: “On l'en entretint un jour, ce fut un moment, un éclair, comme une fenêtre brusquement ouverte sur la destinée de ces êtres qu'il avait aimés, puis tout se referma.” “Someone spoke of it one day: it was momentary, a brief flash, like a window suddenly opened on the fate of his loved ones, then everything closed up again.“ (Donougher trans; choosing to translate ‘eclairs’ as ‘flash’, which is not necessarily wrong. This is the sketchiest of the mentions in terms of it definitely being about lightning.)

-And then, of course, we have two right in a row, when discussing Jean Valjean’s mindset while in prison: “Seulement, par intervalles, il lui venait tout à coup, de lui-même ou du dehors, une secousse de colère, un surcroît de souffrance, un pâle et rapide éclair qui illuminait toute son âme, et faisait brusquement apparaître partout autour de lui, en avant et en arrière, aux lueurs d'une lumière affreuse, les hideux précipices et les sombres perspectives de sa destinée. L'éclair passé, la nuit retombait, et où était-il? il ne le savait plus.”

“Only, every now and again there came all at once, from within him or from without, a surge of anger, an intensification of suffering, a pale flash of lightning that lit up his whole soul and suddenly made visible all around him, in front and behind, by the glimmerings of a ghastly brightness, the frightful precipices and bleak perspectives of his destiny. After the lightning, darkness would fall again. And where was he? He could no longer tell." (Donougher trans)

So we’ve got one mention of lightning as the wrath of Christ, and three mentions of it as the only illumination of Jean Valjean’s soul while he’s in prison, a soul which we know as turned towards anger and hatred while there. Lightning is, at best, a symbol of the destruction needed to rebuild creation, at worst, a symbol of the distortions caused by hatred and ignorance.

And now it’s right here, introducing us to Javert. And like with Valjean, Javert’s lightning is vague, it’s sporadic. It’s distant, even, on the horizon rather than in his mind. You could make all sorts of arguments about what it means: it’s ominous foreshadowing of the role that the prison system will once more have in Valjean’s life! It’s a metaphor for the way Javert’s watchful distrust will feel to Valjean! It’s a metaphor for the way Javert keeps almost figuring Valjean out and then losing his trail! It could be a lot of things. But I’m mostly interested in the fact that it’s there at all. It’s not a common piece of lighting symbolism in the book, so the fact that it shows up here is meaningful, and an extremely declarative way to tie Javert and Jean Valjean together.

And now that I’ve written you almost 700 words about the chapter title (in my defense, some of them were Hugo’s) let’s actually talk about the chapter itself!

The animal instinct bit, and later animal comparisons, are hilarious, if very... steeped in 19th C understandings of animals. I do want to point out, again, that Javert is not the only person who’s been described as having a powerful animal instinct inside of him, that instinctively acts and trusts and distrusts and yet cannot, in turn, be entirely trusted.

It’s one more of those necessary, if entertaining, coincidences that Javert wasn’t around for Madeleine’s entry into town, because you can bet that he would have demanded papers, and then we’d have no story.

We have more calls back to this idea that education is the saving grace of mankind. And more ‘through a mirror, darkly’ parallels between the two men, God, no wonder everyone wants them to kiss. We’re told that animals, being only shadows, can only be trained, not educated, but that men, being real, can be educated and that that education will bring out all that’s good in any man. Mindful of what he already established, he does specify that it should be a good education, and it’s interesting that it’s further specified to be a good social education. We’ve talked before about the things Hugo does with the martyrdom of the hermit, and how withdrawing from your community, in this book, is a way to make your community sad. Here he’s specifying that humans must be taught socially, which is to say by other humans and with an eye towards future interactions with other humans. Which, when applied to Javert, the lone dog-wolf, cast out from his pack first by his birth and second by his choices, is particularly interesting.

Is Javert the only character we’ve run into so far whose forehead has been specified to be low?

We get this, about his features: “A melancholy dreamer, he was stoical, serious, austere; and like fanatics, humble and haughty." I can’t tell if this reminds me of Enjolras because it’s actually similar, or just because ‘melancholy dreamer’ strikes me as such an un-Javert-like phrase. Thoughts?

Valjean probably doesn’t even notice Javert’s gaze because, after 20 years in prison, he’s probably more used to people looking at him like that than he is people being nice to him. I expect he’s far more put off by the kindness than he is by Javert, until he has reason to start thinking that Javert Knows.

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[garbagecann24601]

Vague Flashes on the Horizon

We meet Javert. :)

“The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as he grew up, he would devour the other little ones.

Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert.” 

Born in a prison, Javert grew up feeling isolated by society. “He observed that society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,—those who attack it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He entered the police.”

Javert believes in moral absolutes. Men are either good or bad, but they can’t be a mix of both, and they can’t be neutral. The law is always right and cannot be condemned; the criminal is always wrong and cannot be redeemed.

With time, Javert is the only person in town who does not trust Madeleine, but Madeleine still treats Javert with kindness and respect.