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>> Brie Carlisle: Today we'll be continuing les

miseramblas by Victor Hugo.

Chapter eleven to scoff

to rain there

is no limit to Paris.

No city has had that domination which sometimes

derides those whom it subjugates to

please you, o Athenians. Exclaimed

Alexander. Paris makes more than

the law. It makes the fashion.

Paris sets more than the fashion. It sets

the routine. Paris may be stupid if

it sees fit. It sometimes allows

itself this luxury. Then the universe is

stupid in company with it. Then Paris

awakes, rubs its eyes, says

how stupid I am, and bursts out laughing in the face of the

human race. What a marvel is such a

city. It is a strange thing that

this grandioseness and this burlesque should be

amicable neighbors, that all this majesty shall

not be thrown into disorder by all this parody,

and that the same mouth can today blow into the trump of the

judgment day, and tomorrow into the

reedfloot. Paris has a sovereign

joviality. Its gaiety is of the

thunder and its farce holds a scepter.

Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace.

Its explosions, its days, its

masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics go forth to

the bounds of the universe, and so also do its

cock and bull stories. Its laugh

is the mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth.

Its jests are sparks. It

imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on

people. The highest monuments of human

civilization accept its ironies and lend their

eternity to its mischievous pranks. It

is superb. It has a prodigious

14 July, which delivers the globe.

It forces all nations to take the oath of

tennis. Its night of the 4 August

dissolves in 3 hours. A thousand years of

feudalism. It makes of its logic the

muscle of unanimous will. It multiplies

itself under all sorts of forms of the sublime.

It fills with its light. Washington,

Kosciuszko, Bolivar Boziris,

Riego, Bim Manan, Lopez, John

Brown, Garibaldi. It is

everywhere where the future is being lighted up. At,

Boston in 1779, at the Isle

de Lyon in 1820. At, Pesth, in

1848, at, ah, Palermo in

1860. It whispers the mighty

countersign liberty in the ear of

the american abolitionists, grouped about the boat at Harpers

Ferry, and in the ear of the patriots of Ancona,

assembled in the shadow to the archae before the

Gozi Inn on the seashore. It creates

Canaris, it creates quiroga, it

creates pisokane. It irradiates the

great on earth. It was, while proceeding

whither its breath urged them that

Byron perished at missilogny and that

Mazette died at Barcelona. It is the

tribune under the feet of Mirabeau and a

crater under the feet of Robespierre. its

books, its theater, its art, its science, its

literature, its philosophy, are the manuals of the

human race. It has Pascal,

regnier, Cornel, Descartes,

Jean Jacques Voltaire, for all moments,

moliere for all centuries. It makes

its language to be talked by the universal mouth,

and that language becomes the word.

It constructs in all minds the idea of progress.

The liberating dogmas which it forges are, for the

generations, trusty friends. And it is with the

soul of its thinkers and its poets that all heroes of

all nations have been made since 1789.

This does not prevent vagabondism,

that enormous genius which is called Paris,

while transfiguring the world by its light,

sketches in charcoal, bougonires nose on the wall of the

temple of Theseus, and writes the

thief on the pyramids.

Paris is always showing its teeth.

When it is not scolding, it is laughing.

Such is Paris. The smoke of

its roofs forms the ideas of the universe.

A heap of mud and stone, if you will.

But above all, a moral being. It is

more than great. It is immense.

Why? Because it is daring

to dare. That is the prize of

progress. All sublime conquests

are more or less the prizes of daring. In

order that the revolution should take place, it is not sufficed

that Montesquieu, should foresee it, that

Diderot should preach it, that beau marquet, should

announce it, that Condorcet should calculate

it, that hourt should prepare it, that

Rousseau should premeditate it. It is

necessary that Danton should dare it. The

cry audacity. It is a

fiat lux. It is necessary for the sake of the

forward march of the human race, that there should be proud

lessons of courage permanently on the heights.

Daring deeds dazzle history and are one of man's

great sources of light. The dawn dares, when it

rises, to attempt

to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be

faithful to oneself, to grasp fate

bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small

amount of fear that it occasions us

now to affront unjust power again,

to insult drunken victory, to hold ones

position, to stand ones ground.

That is the example which nations

need. That is the light which

electrifies them. The same formidable lightning

proceeds from the torch of Prometheus to Chebrons short

pipe.

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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 a broken 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

line by line, one bite at a time.