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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing.

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

chapter two some of his particular

characteristics

this gamin, the street Arab

of Paris, is the dwarf of the giant. Let

us not exaggerate. This cherub of the

gutter sometimes has a shirt, but in that case

he owns but one. He sometimes has

shoes, but then they have no soles. He

sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for he finds

his mother there, but he prefers the

street, because there he finds

liberty. He has his own games,

his own bits of mischief, whose foundation consists

of hatred for the bourgeois. His peculiar

metaphors to be dead is to eat dandelions by

the root, his own occupations

calling hackney coaches, letting down carriage

steps, establishing means of transit between the two

sides of a street in heavy rains, which he

calls making the bridge of arts, crying

discourses pronounced by the authorities in favor of the french

people cleaning out the cracks in the pavement.

He has his own coinage, which is composed of all the little

morsels of work, copper, which are found on the public

streets. This curious money,

which receives the name of lox

rags, has an invariable and well regulated

currency in this little bohemia of children.

Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he

observes attentively in the corners. The

ladybird, the deaths head plant louse,

the daddy longlegs, the devil, a

black insect which menaces by twisting about its

tail, armed with two horns. He has this

fabulous monster, which has scales under its belly,

but is not a lizard, which has pustules

on its back, but is not a toad, which

inhabits the nooks of old lime kilns and wells that have run

dry, which is black, hairy,

sticky, which crawls sometimes slowly,

sometimes rapidly, which has no cry,

but which has a look and is so terrible

that no one has ever beheld it. He calls

this monster the deaf thing. The search for

these, deaf things among the stones is a joy of formidable

nature. Another pleasure consists in

suddenly prying up a paving stone and taking a

look at the woodlice. Each region of

Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be

found there. There are earwigs in the timber yards

of the Ursulines. There are millipedes in the

pantheon. There are tadpoles in the ditches of

the Camp des Mars. As far as sayings are

concerned, this child has as many of them as

talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he

is more honest. He is endowed with a

certain indescribable, unexpected

joviality. he upsets the composure of the shopkeeper with his

wild laughter. He ranges boldly from

high comedy to farce. A funeral

passes by. among those who accompany the dead, theres a

doctor. Hey there. Shouts some street

Arab. How long has it been customary for doctors to carry

home their own work? Another is in a

crowd. A grave man adorned with

spectacles and trinkets turns round indignantly,

you good for nothing. Youve seized my wifes waist.

Aye, sir. Search me.

Thank you for joining byte at a time books today. Well,

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again. My name is Brie carlisle, and

I hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite

of le Miserable.

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>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look and broke, and let's

see what we can find.

Take it chapter by chapter. One

night at a time

so many adventures and

mountains we can climb.

>> Brie Carlisle: Word.

>> Brie Carlisle: Line by line, one bite at a

time

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