like not to bring up les mis in 2017 but grantaire’s ‘i am wild’ is probably the best line in all of literature
unpopular opinion: it’s actually combeferre’s “to be free”
Both of you wrong, it’s the random guard that says “Shit” in French (Merde) and then Hugo goes on for at least a paragraph to say it was the best thing said in all of France
He, Javert, personified justice, light, and truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael – Victor Hugo (Les Misérables).
from this post. poor joly and bossuet are having sudden previous-life-flashbacks to grantaire’s three page brick rant …
sorry about the quality and the fact that it changes style like five times…….. I just had to scribble it out before I ran out of energy. here’s the other post from e and R’s wedding because I have more wedding ideas so I might end up making it a series
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