les miserables

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I do sometimes wonder what would have happened to Grantaire had Enjolras become involved with someone else. Fandom consensus seems to be that he’d instantly drink himself to death, and maybe he would, but…

…another part of me likes to think that he would have been okay in the end, that he’d have become ‘someone once more’ on his own given time and support. And then eventually he’d mature into the sort of man Enjolras could respect, just not love, but that would be enough for him.

Maybe. I don’t know. I JUST DON’T WANT THINGS TO BE ANY SADDER.

 

how to fall in love

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spinthetireslightthefires:

cheshiresparadox:

  • Find a complete stranger.

  • Reveal to each other intimate details about your lives for half an hour.

  • Then, stare deeply into each other’s eyes without talking for four minutes.

New York psychologist, Professor Arthur Aron, has been studying why people fall in love.

He asked his subjects to carry out the above 3 steps and found that many of his couples felt deeply attracted after the 34 minute experiment. Two of his subjects later got married.

Well. That’s odd to think about.

shit i think we figured out how marius and cosette did it.

 

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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…

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