McCullough Tarner’s Reviews > Les Misérables > Status Update

I have whiplash. We went from discussing Marius’ daily habits minute by minute to a high stress action sequence where someone is about to be murdered. Victor, my neck hurts.

Some good stuff this go around but I’ll just leave this: “A pun is not to be scoffed at. Puns sometimes have a serious bearing on politics”

I love a good pun, glad we can agree on that Hugo.

Fauchelvant is hilarious, I now want a garden, and know way to much about the gamin of Paris. Let’s get back to the plot Victor.

“Stat crux sun volvitur orbis” — the cross remains steady while the world turns.

12 pages of deep analysis of convents and monasteries and how we view them as outsiders looking in but also how they view the “infinite” being God. Wild Sunday morning read.

Good quote!! “Some things can be unlearned, and rightly so, provided that when one thing is unlearned, another is learned. No vacuum in the human heart. Some demolitions occur, and a good thing too, but on condition that reconstruction follows”

Bad quote!! “…the reader may allow us another small digression, unconnected with the substance of this book…”

brother no the reader does not. It is never small.

Jean Valjean and Cosette make me weep and if anything happens to them I will be so upset.