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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing.

Les Miserables by Victor

Hugo chapter

seven the Gamin should have his place

in the classifications of India.

The body of street Arabs in Paris

almost constitutes a caste,

one might almost say not everyone who wishes

to belong to it can do so. This

word gemin was printed for the

first time and reached popular speech through the

literary tongue in 1834.

It is in a little work entitled Claude Go

that this word made its appearance.

The horror was lively. The word

passed into circulation. The elements

which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other

are very various. We have known

and associated with one who was greatly respected and

vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from the

top of the tower of Notre Dame, another

because he had succeeded in making his way into the rear courtyard

where the statues of the dome of the invalids had been temporarily

deposited and had prigged

some lead from them a third because he

had seen a diligence tip over. Still another

because he knew a soldier who came near

putting out the eye of a citizen. This

explains that famous exclamation of a parisian

gamin, a profound epiphany

which the vulgar herd laughs at without

comprehending. Dieu de Dieu.

What ill luck. I do have to think that I have never yet

seen anybody tumble from a fifth story window.

I haf pronounced Ave and fifth.

Pronounced fifth. Surely this

saying of a peasant is a fine one. Father so and

so. Your wife has died of a malady. Why did you not send

for the doctor? What would you have, sir? We poor

folks die of ourselves. But if the

peasants whole passivity lies in this saying,

the whole of the freethinking anarchy, of the brat, of the

faubourgs is assuredly contained in this

other saying. A man condemned to death

is listening to his confessor in the tumbril. The child

of Paris exclaims. He is talking to his black

cap. Oh, the sneak. A

certain audacity on matters of religion sets off

the gammon. to be strong minded is an important

item. To be present at executions

constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the

guillotine and he laughs. He calls it

by all sorts of pet. The end of the soup,

the growler, the mother in the blue, the sky,

the mouthful, etcetera, etcetera. In order not

to lose anything of the affair, he scales the

walls. He hoists himself to balconies. He ascends,

trees. He suspends himself to gratings. He

clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is born

a Tyler as he is born a mariner. A

rufe inspires him with no more fear than a mast.

There is no festival which comes up to an execution on the

Place de Grieve. Samson and the abbe

Montes are the truly popular names.

They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him.

They sometimes admire him.

Lacenaire Wingamin, on seeing the hideous dot and

die, bravely uttered these words which contain a

future. I was jealous of him.

In the brotherhood of Gamins, Voltaire is not known,

but Pabovoin is. Politicians are

confused with assassins. In the same legend they have

a tradition. As to everybodys last garment. It

is known that Talleyrand had a firemans cap. Avril,

an otter cap. Lhasvel, a roundhat.

That old Delaporte was bald and bareheaded.

That casting was already and very handsome.

That boreas had a romantic small beard.

That Jean Martin kept on his suspenders. That

Le cuffy and his mother quarreled. Dont

reproach each other for your basket. Shouted a gamin to

them another in order to get a look at the backer

as he passed and being too small in the crowd, caught sight

of the lantern on the quay and climbed it. A

gendarme stationed opposite frowned. Let me

climb up, Monsieur Legionarme, said the

gamin. And to soften the heart of the authorities,

he added, I will not fall. I

dont care if you do, retorted the gendarme

in the Brotherhood of Gamins, a memorable accident

counts for a great deal. One reaches the height of

consideration if one chances to cut oneself very deeply

to the very bone. The fist is no

mediocre element of respect. One of the

things that the gamin is fondest of saying is I am fine

and strong. Come now. To be

left handed renders you very enviable. A

squint is highly esteemed.

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>> Brie Carlisle: Of one of your favorite classics.

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

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