Gary K Bibliophile’s Reviews > Les Misérables > Status Update

Cloaca - I am pretty sure I have never read a book with more references to ‘cloaca’ than this one 😀. I did a search on Kindle… 26 references. Such a weird word.

“if insurrection in given cases may be, as Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most fatal of crimes.

There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw.”

Qu’il luise ou qu’il luiserne, L’ours rentre en sa caverne.
Or…
Let it gleam or let it glimmer. The bear returns into his cave

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All the problems which the socialists propounded, aside from the cosmogonic visions, dreams, and mysticism, may be reduced to two principal problems.
First problem: To produce wealth.
Second problem: To distribute it.

The Parisian Gamin - The Paris gamin is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has bad teeth, because he is poorly fed, and his stomach suffers, and fine eyes because he has genius… As sum total, and to embrace all in a world, the gamin is a being who amuses himself because he is unfortunate.
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Patron-Minette means morning, just as entre chien et loup [between dog and wolf], means night.

Petit-Picpus
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“… in which were four different wines. Upon the first goblet he read this inscription: Monkey wine, upon the second: lion wine, upon the third: sheep wine, upon the fourth: swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalises.”

Shoes in the Fireplace

Three ways to deal with the Evil One

I haven’t completely mapped out my trip to Paris next month yet, but I’m definitely not going to steal any apples 🍎😀