#squid book

[ziyal]

One of his [the Devil's] most intolerable familiarities was to pay nocturnal visits to Catholic marital beds at a time when the husband was fast asleep and the wife just falling asleep. This inevitably gave rise to misunderstandings. ... One woman, worried, consulted her confessor about the best way to clear up misunderstandings of this kind. The confessor replied: "To be sure whether it is the Devil or your husband, feel his forehead, and if you find horns you will be sure." "Sure of what?" asked the woman.

ah, i did miss your writing mr. hugo

[ziyal]

that post got more notes than i would have expected a post that is just like "so i'm reading this book" to get

[ziyal]

i've started reading "the toilers of the sea" because i liked les mis enough that i figured i should try something else by victor hugo, so when i saw this at a used bookstore the other day i grabbed it. it is about SQUID

also apparently it was so popular when it came out that there was a SQUID FAD in france with people wearing like. squid shaped hats. and it introduced the french word for "squid" to the common language where it had previously only been known in a dialect.