Apr 15, 2025
ZENITH - ANGEL BLESS
1998
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ZENITH - ANGEL BLESS
1998
@angel-bless: #i haven’t read the book please tell me he actually had a guinea pig
Well, sort of. He does at least hold one at one point. From Volume I, Book Five, Chapter Three:
He had “recipes” for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed in it.
It’s a wonderful little chapter actually, full of little revelations about Valjean:
he likes to take solitary walks through fields
he loves books and eats all his meals alone, with a book open in front of him
he makes dolls and toys for children out of straw and coconuts, and groups of children frequently swarm and follow him when he walks through town
he breaks into people’s houses to secretly leave them money
he attends every funeral in town because he’s drawn to grief and he likes to contemplate “all the mysteries of the infinite" and “the obscure abyss of death”
he always leaves his house with money in his pockets and comes back with none
he frequently performs helpful feats of strength like stopping runaway bulls or freeing carts that have gotten stuck in mud (the incident with Fauchelevent isn’t the first of its kind!)
he has amazing aim with a gun, but he never kills “an inoffensive animal”– “He never shot at a little bird.”
people gossip about him, call him “a good-natured bear,” think him mysterious and reclusive, and affable but sad
he gives helpful farming advice and, in doing so, inevitably ends up giving sad sermons about the inherent value of all people:
One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: “They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!” He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”
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