#4.5.6

[lesmisletters]

September 5th

Today was the end of Vol 4; Book 5!

248 chapters read, 117 chapters left

67.95% thru the brick!

[centrifuge-politics]

Brick Club 4.5.5, 4.5.6

A beautiful Cosette...I seriously doubt that bobs were in fashion around this time but she’s working it.

Ok, for the sake of the tone of these posts, I’m going to carefully lay aside my romantic misgivings and go ahead and jump into the freezing water. I’m on board now, I promise.

“The education which she had received had always spoken to her of the soul and never of love.” All agape and no eros (to wildly simplify). The nuns, and Valjean for that matter, are experts in a sort of all encompassing, saintly love that is more conceptual than actual and haven’t prepared Cosette for anything else. Valjean, at least, has graduated to being comfortable with familial love but there’s something in him that is wary of this new kind of love, to the point that seeing it in Cosette is frightening, “he would have shuddered before that luminous and unknown joy which flashed from her eyes.” It’s something he doesn’t understand. I’ll allow that Cosette pinpoints Marius’s substance with impressive accuracy, if a slightly romanticized bias. She’s a good judge of character. “It had been written with the foot in the grave and the finger in Heaven.” Yes, that’s an accurate depiction of Marius’s whole…life orientation currently.

It’s actually really, really charming to see that, just as Marius thinks of ‘Her’, Cosette has been carrying a torch for this nonpareil ‘He’, not extinguished in the slightest by the distraction of handsome military men (who, if we are to trust Theodule’s word, wasn’t interested anyway). Cosette really is the absolute best and I love her. “She could really conjecture nothing,” she tells herself, a pretty wild juxtaposition to Marius building entire fantasy lives in his head after glimpsing her once, yet “she would refuse herself nothing.” I want her to have everything and she deserves it.

The sacred and profane are one and the same again in this rekindling of young love, “this celestial chance, this intervention of angels, was that bullet of bread thrown by one robber to another robber.” Nothing is small and all works for all.

How fascinating to see Marius through these eyes. He’s like the love child of a brooding hero of some Gothic romance and an Edgar Alan Poe character. “He had, under a veil of incomparable sweetness, something of death and of night.” Not really my type, but I’d be a fool to underestimate the unexplainable magnetism Marius seems to exude. I also hold Cosette’s taste in very high esteem and I trust her judgement.

I would give…anything to see a scene of Marius listening to Cosette belt the tenor line of the Hunter’s Chorus from Euryanthe. Actually, I would give anything just to hear that myself. Their dynamic is just…still so good, I’m such a sucker. Marius: So…do you love me? Cosette: Shut up, of course I do.

I’m glad they talk! I genuinely think these two crazy kids are ridiculously compatible once they get into the nature of their beings. Beyond the parallel in their childhoods, I think they would really balance and support each other in a really unique way.  Marius needs a positive, grounding influence and Cosette would absolutely benefit from a passionate, deeply emotional force in her life. Marius would help her start to engage with a deeper and darker side of herself that Valjean refuses to broach with her.

[garbagecann24601]

Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely

“When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and was, as young girls say, “a trifle indecent.” It was not in the least indecent, but it was prettier than usual.”

Cosette goes out into the garden and to the bench. She suddenly senses that she is not alone. She turns, and he is there, looking nearly dead. 

He admits to her that he has been stalking her.

They are both nearly fainting. They embrace, and Cosette tells Marius that she loves him.

“He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the black trees on the shivering crest of the hills?”

They talk for a while, pouring their souls into one another until they know everything.

Then they, at last, think to exchange names.

[akallabeth-joie]

Brickclub 4.5.6

They finally speak! Cosette continues to be sympathetic--which of us has not gotten excited about things we can't control? Cosette doesn't know if or when her secret admirer might return (though the whole 'following her' thing suggests that he may), but she hopes, and dresses up, and wanders about the garden towards the place he left the letter (which seems a likely spot for establishing communication). Marius continues pontmercying, and somehow it works. Again, I'm concerned that 'rambling monologue about following her and obsessing over minor details' makes a favorable first impression--instead of, you know, being a huge red flag worthy of the act 1 finale. Cosette responds to Marius's 'Could you love me?` with the 'tu' form; otherwise they stick to 'vous'.

[lacyc3]

Kernel megjelenések: 3.14.71, 4.4.12, 4.5.6, 4.6.1

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[pilferingapples]

Brick!club 11/24 Les Miserables 4.5.6 The Elderly Are Made To Go Out When Convenient

*Pontmercying Intensifies* "Pardon me, I'm talking to you, I don't know what I'm saying, perhaps I annoy you, am I annoying you?" skghdgkh MARIUS. If you weren't being such an IMPOSSIBLE dork right now the whole "I WALK AROUND YOUR HOUSE AND LISTEN TO YOU SING AND HIDE WHEN YOU MIGHT SEE ME" thing might be creepy and offputting but in light of the INCREDIBLE dorkery at hand it's just..just...awwww, you kids. Seriously, this is the most I have liked Marius since the Napoleon Conversion and I liked him quite a bit there. And..and ...OH FINE THIS IS ALL ADORABLE, with the talking for ages and then remembering to ask each others' names and the awkward kissing and the "faith in their illusions" and YOU WIN THIS ROUND, HUGO.

Kind of amused by the whole "Oh gosh Marius is WASTING AWAY AND IT'S SUPER HOT" thing, in light of both the Doeskin Trousers conversation with the whole "pffft, PINING" and general knowledge of the Romantic scene and the whole "women are totes into Romantically Deathy types" talk from Le Figaro . Just the thought that Marius, of all people, is being inadvertently TRENDY, is making me cackle. Oh, OH but it's painful, too, now that I've read through before, to see Marius going on with his "you are my angel, let me come sometimes, I think I am going to die!". ARGH FORESHADOWING  you win EVERY ASPECT OF THIS ROUND, Hugo, I am going to be over wailing and tearing my garments a bit.

[princ3sspatty]

4,5,6...

How i hate you so!!! you stole my loves' love!! curse you and your existence!! you took him and left us for dead!

My Torchwood feels...damn you Justin.Tv.. damn you...why did you have to be playing this ep..why