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Unless there is a dramatic turn of events in the final chapters, then even the one single thing I thought I knew about this story I was wrong about. It’s good to be ignorant sometimes.

🎵everybody’s making love or else expecting rain🎵

That lyric and song has been in my head throughout this book

Keep him away from the goat

The priest is getting pervy now. And that strains my credulity not one bit.

The goat unwittingly testified against her!! Oh mon dieu

Do what you will with esmerelda, but dont you dare lay a hand on that goat

“It sees with but one eye,” remarked Damoiselle Guillemette; “there is a wart over the other.”
“That is no wart,” replied Master Robert Mistricolle; “that is an egg which holds just such another demon, who also bears another little egg containing another demon, and so on ad infinitum.”

“What on earth is it, sister?” said Agnès to Gauchère, gazing at the little foundling as it shrieked and writhed
“What is the world coming to,” said Jehanne, “if that is the way the children look nowadays?”
“I don’t know much about children,” added Agnès; “but it must surely be a sin to look at this thing.”
“It’s no child, Agnès.”
“It’s a deformed monkey”

And these are nuns lol

I know Quasimodo has an ill fated love affair with Esmerelda. And that’s about it. I couldn’t have named another character. I’ve never seen any of the film adaptations, not even Disney. And if I read any children’s versions I’ve forgotten them. So this should be a good adventure. Hugo being Hugo, it took a few chapters to get moving. But those splashes of paint are starting to form a picture now.