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fight M at a time

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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing Les Miserable by

Victor Hugo, chapter

eight, in which the reader will find a charming

saying of the last king.

In summer he metamorphoses

himself into a frog, and in the evening,

when night is falling in front of the bridges of Austerlitz in

Jena, from the tops of coal wagons and the

washett womens boats, he hurls himself

headlong into the sign and into all

possible infractions of the laws of modesty and of the

police. Nevertheless, the police keep

an eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic

situation which once gave rise to a fraternal and

memorable cry. That cry, which was

celebrated about 1830, is a strategic

warning. From gamin to gammon, it

scans like a verse from Homer with a notation as

inexpressible as the elusiatic chant of the

panathenia, and in it one encounters

again the ancient evoi here it

is, o he titi o he.

Here comes the bobby, here comes

the pick up your duds and be off through the sewer with

you. Sometimes this gnat,

that is what he calls himself knows how to read

sometimes. He knows how to write. He always

knows how to daub. He does not hesitate to

acquire by no one knows what mysterious mutual

instruction all the talents which can be of use to the

public. From 1815 to 1830

he imitated the cry of the turkey. From

1830 to 1848 he scrawled pears

on the walls. One summer evening,

when Louis Philippe was returning home on foot, he

saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee,

perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in

charcoal on one of the pillars of the gate of the nulli.

The king, with that good nature which came to him from Henry

Ivdev, helped the gamin, finished the

pair, and gave the child a Louis, saying, the pair is

on that also the gamin loves

uproar. A certain state of violence pleases

him. He execrates the cures.

One day in the rue de l'universide, one of

these scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of number

69. Why are you doing that at the

gate? A passerby asked. The boy

replied, there is a cure there. It was there,

in fact, that the papel nuncio lived.

Nevertheless, whatever may be the volitarianism of the small

gamin, if the occasion to become a choirster

presents itself, it is quite possible that he will

accept, and in that case he serves the mass

civilly. There are two things which he plays

tantalus and which he always desires without ever

attaining to overthrow the government

and to get his trousers sewed up again.

The Gamin, in his perfect state, possesses all the

policemen of Paris and can always put the name to the

face of anyone which he chances to meet. He

can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He

studies their habits and he has special notes on

each one of them. He reads the souls of the police

like an open book. He will tell you fluently

and without flinching. Such an one is a

traitor. Such another is very malicious.

Such another is great. Such another is

ridiculous. All these words,

traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous,

have a particular meaning in his mouth.

That one imagines that he owns the pont neuve

and he prevents people from walking on the cornice outside the

parapet. That other has a mania for

pulling persons ears, etcetera,

etcetera.

Thank you for joining Byte edit Time books today

while we read a bite of one of your favorite classics.

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: taking chapter by chapter one

line at a time

so many adventures and

mountains we can climb

take your word forward line by

line, one bite at a time.