#le brick

[idislikehitler-blog]

in le brick valjean is almost god personified

[21bitheart]

So, I'm at the part in the brick where Valjean saves (spares?) Javert at the barricade...

...and something made me stop dead in my tracks. 

"Jean Valjean with some difficulty helped Javert, bound as he was, to climb over the barricade leading to the Rue Mondetour, without, however, letting go of him for an instant. Having done so they were in the narrow alleyway, where the corner of the house hid them from the insurgents. The dead bodies dragged off the barricade formed a dreadful heap a few paces away, and among them was an ashen face, a pierced heart and the breast of a half-naked woman-Eponine. 

Javert glanced sidelong at the dead body and murmured in a voice of profound calm: 'I think I know that girl.' 

Then he turned to Valjean who, with the pistol under his arm, was regarding him in a manner which rendered the words, "You know me, too,' unnecessary." 

I can't seem to wrap my head around it. Perhaps I'm just over-thinking it, but it seems like such a far cry from his reaction Fantine's death; could it be something like guilt/a flicker of remorse, or just a thought that popped into the mind of an old man who's convinced that he's about to die? And the comment he makes, 'I think I know that girl'; it seems like such a loaded statement. And for him to make that statement around Valjean of all people, instead of just silently passing by the body and going to his fate? 

I feel like this passage deserves than I can give it; nevertheless, here's what I've got. 

[onceuponthemilkyway]

My friend and I made a bet that if I finished reading Les Miserables (Le Brick) before May that she will watch the 2012 movie with me (which is quite a bet because she hates Les Mis with a passion, and for good reason on her behalf).

So far I'm on page 29 out of 1463.