anunearthlyfireburningbright:

There’s something honestly very awe-inspiring about the way old books were written, or at least how Victor Hugo wrote, in how one could write an entire book’s worth of content and detail, only to have the next book contain the immediate opening statement, “Hey, you know all that stuff I made you suffer through for an entire book? None of that actually matters, and you can safely start reading from this point even if you skipped it. My bad.”