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And somehow yet one more thing about Orestes Fasting And Pylades Drunk has popped into my head:

I suspect this is only relevant to a particular translation, as I don’t know how it goes in French, but over in Grantaire’s introduction we have (so help me, I know it by heart)-

The toad always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith soar in Enjolras

And then in OFPD we have-

“Might as well kill two birds with one stone, he said; and then, turning to Enjolras, he added gently, “If you don’t mind.”

So s’like…in his last moments of life, Grantaire gets to be a bird too, Enjolras’s equal. And even though the whole thing is probably just a accident of translations and colloquialisms, I like it…