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>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look, in the book and let's see

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Take it chapter by chapter. One

fight M at a time

so many adventures and

mountains we can climb

to give word for word, line by

line, one bite at a time.

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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing.

les miserable by Victor Hugo

chapter three he is agreeable

in the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he

always finds means to procure. Hamuncio

enters a theater. On crossing that magic

threshold, he becomes transfigured. He was a

street Arab. He becomes the taitai.

theaters are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel in

the air. It is in that keel that the taitai

huddle together. The taitai is to the gamin

what the moth is to the larva, the same being

endowed with wings and soaring. It

suffices for him to be there with his radiance of

happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and

joy, with his hand clapping, which resembles a

clapping of wings, to confer on that

narrow, dark feeted, sordid, unhealthy,

hideous, abominable keel the name of

paradise. Bestow on an individual

the useless and deprive him of the necessary.

And you have the Gamin. The Gamin is not

devoid of literary intuition. His

tendency, and we say it with the proper amount of

regret, would not constitute classic

taste. He is not very academic by

nature. Thus, to give an example, the

popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little

audience of stormy children was seasoned with a touch

of irony. The gamin called her

mademoiselle mooch. Hide yourself.

This being balls and scoffs and ridicules and

fights, has rags like a baby and

tatters like a philosopher. Fishes in the sewer,

hunts in the cesspool, extracts mirth

from foulness, whips up the squares with his

wit. Grins and bites, whistles and

sings, shouts and shrieks, tempers

alleluia with Madame Tourlette

chants every rhythm from the de profundis to the jack

pudding. Fiennes, without seeking,

knows what he is ignorant of, is a spartan to the point

of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical

to filth. Would crouch down on olympus,

wallows in the dunghill, and emerges from it covered with

stars. The gamin of Paris is

Rabelais. In this youth, he is not content

with his trousers unless they have a watch pocket.

He is not easily astonished. He is still less

easily terrified. He makes songs on

superstitions. He takes the wind out of

exaggerations. He twits mysteries. He

thrusts out his tongue at ghosts. He takes the poetry

out of stilted things. He introduces caricature

into epic extravaganzas. It is

not that he is prosaic, far from

that, but he replaces the solemn vision by the

farcical phantasmagoria. If at a

master were to appear to him, the street heir would say, hi

there, the bugaboo.

Thank you for joining bite at a time books today while

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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

at a time

so many adventures and

mountains we can climb

word, line by line, one bite at a

time.