Brick!Club 5.3.7-11 Leverage and Confrontations and Ostriches
So hope springs eternal and then is snapped shut by a grate. Poor Valjean. I admit seeing the great etc sent my mind straight into POTC and the opening of bars with leverage. Which Valjean cannot do as there is nothing to leverage with. :-(
Also we have regaining strength bit very poignant and accurate. To gain a second strength when you think something is almost over.
And the profound depression and thinking only of Cosette. Oh poor Man and poor girl.
"It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel springing from the earth in the form of Thenardier."
This is a interesting chapter. Painful in the sense of some of what Thenadier is saying (the comments on the river are chilling.) but also in how providence works in ways we don't suspect. Help doesn't always come in nice little boxes with bows that are pretty, sometimes it comes in grimy unloved boxes or in this case an utterly criminal box who only think of money.
We can't pick and choose but we can take what we get.
And sometimes what we get is tied into more danger. Out of the frying pan into the fire and all that.
How do you put a bludgeon between your teeth? What does it look like anyhow? I admit I assumed it was club shaped and a bit big to put between your teeth. *goes to google and discovers Bludgeon the transformer... and pictures of actual bludgeons* Okay that makes a bit more sense it does form a weirdly fierce image but also an odd one. and then
Javert "laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was terrible. Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx." and I wonder why there's slash with these two. I don't ship it at all as the imagery is a bit violent for me to see it work (that and slashing isn't my thing... friendshipping yes slashing no.), but "their faces almost touched" and the whole inert thing... I can see why some minds can go interpreting things there... and reading on ( I am somewhat live brick!clubbing) my mind is being creeped out at how much it is seeing the slashy undertones... why brain are you going there?
"His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his nose, a sign of savage revery." How do you do this with a bludgeon in your mouth? It ruins the image entirely! *spend the next couple minutes in front of the webcam with a pen in her mouth attempting to recreate this and bursting into giggles instead.*
Okay on a serious note... you can see the beginning of Javert's breaking from reality... the murmuring of the question etc.
And then he helps Valjean and Marius...
People go to bed betimes in the Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily under their coverlet.
The revolution to those who don't want to care is a bugaboo. Nice description Hugo. What we don't want to know about or acknowledge is something we avoid like a child avoiding monsters.. being proverbial ostriches sticking their heads in the sand.
And now Marius is home for varying definitions of home... and not yet dead despite Javert's pronunciations.
...any other man than himself in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected with the rope which Thenardier had given him, and of the bars of the first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against himself.
Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Valjean.
Strangely Hugo I never thought Valjean would commit suicide so thank you for telling me that he wasn't planning on it.
And now Valjean is home expecting to say his final goodbyes and tell Cosette of Marius's location and turn himself in.
Javert, who is acting abnormal, leaves thus ruining that plan.
What would've happened to Cosette if the plan had gone through though? I wonder if Valjean thought of that.
All I know is that I"m curious to see what Javert is up to.
