Hugo will go on slightly connected but somewhat random tangents--I've learned about the Battle of Waterloo, a Bernardine convent, etc
Most of the time he will say something like: " since we have ventured to open a window[...], the reader will permit us one other disgression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and useful, since it shows that..."
BUT WHAT ABOUT JEAN VALJEAN?! Please, I need to know!!
— Apr 29, 2026 09:41PM
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