#victor hugo ily

[protectionsquad24601]

"Napoleon had been denounced in the realms of the infinite and his downfall had been decided. He was an inconvenience to God."

-I constantly think about this Les Mis quote. brutal.

#obsessed with this les mis quote #imagine telling someone they're an inconvenience to God #absolutely devastating #les mis #les miserables #the brick #victor hugo #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #quote #book quote #victor hugo ily

[gayest-classiclit]

ROUND 1 - survivors

#i'm sorry kent ily </3 #classic lit survivor bracket #tournament poll #round 1 #les miserables #victor hugo #king lear #william shakespeare

[faerielleart]

“...do you permit it?”

[Les Misérables!AU, in which Hanji gathers a group of students to conspire behind the king’s back and start a revolution to put an end to the extreme social inequality. Levi is the most cynical and pessimistic of the students and doesn’t believe in the revolution at all, however he attends all the meetings and takes great interest in Hanji, the leader of the group, though he is unwilling to even admit it to himself. Following the plot of the book, the revolution begins during the funeral of an important military officer, Hanji and the students wreak havoc among the crowd and built barricades in the streets using old furniture. The people do not rise with them and they are left alone the following day, with the guards coming to shut everything down and kill the rebels. Hanji gives one last speech, encouraging the loyal students, who didn’t leave despite the situation being hopeless, to fight til the end; “Let others rise to take our place until the earth is free”, using the lyrics from the musical. The students are killed, until Hanji is the only one left. Just as the guards are about to shoot her, Levi arrives. He did not participate in the battle, but he wants to die by her side. He asks for her permission and Hanji smiles and takes his hand. The guards shoot them, Hanji stands against the wall as if nailed there, only her head bowed, and Levi falls at her feet. Needless to say, Hanji is Enjolras, Levi is Grantaire]

[the reference for the scene is taken from the 2012 movie! pls go watch it yall it’s my fav movie of all time also listen to the songs they’re all amazing and if you have time read the book and come cry about enjolras and grantaire with me]

#levihan #for the sake of all that is holy lets pretend ‘taire’s a good dude in this one lads :’D #someone write a fic pls 😞👉👈 #levi fights and fights and fIGHTS #and then goes off to die with boo #no napping allowed #dude grows and redeems himself ayyyy #god bless this movie #god bless hugo and these characters #taire a lil less bc hes a butthole #taire!levi looks like he could k word u but is a cinnamon roll #sorry victor my au my rules love u bb #yeah not making comparisons bw exr/lh bc theres like nothing in common #but the final scene of those two owns my ass the angst yall thx vic #gotta put lh through the same suffering /evil laughter/ #levi bb sorry for putting u as taire ily but i love the angst more #the way canon levi would kick his ass omfg #levi in this au too let’s not kid ourselves rest in pieces dude

[morelike-bi-light]

📝 (Phil-Dwyer-Stan-Account)

Heyy dude!

We can and should all slam Victor Hugo whenever possible, but he did have some admirably raw shit to say, including:

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Was gonna be my senior yearbook quote! I missed the submission deadline tho I think

#bilight's bs #bilight talks #bilight's asks #victor hugo #les miserables #bilight interacts #bilight's not on theme #about bilight #ty ily dude i was hopin fod this one lmao

[allerod]

iffff you like ramen & Japanese food then try Tonkotsu Soho on Dean street, the gyoza there is amazing tbh and their ramen bowls are super hearty. If you want something more cake-y sweet then try and get something from Cutter & Squidge on Brewer Street. if you can get into Bocca di Lupo on Archer street and you like Italian then absolutely go for it :3 !

me yesterday: okay myself, remember, you have limited budget

me now: ohh ramen!! and cake!! and ice cream!! i wanna eat Everything

also:

#victor hugo found alive in london #monsieurmadeleine #thank you for the recs ily!!

[julictcapulet]

Book meme ask bc I was hit with a love threat & need to give in to said threat 😌✌🏻❤️‍🔥!!: 1, 2, 9, 12 pls ily

book asks!

ily SO much bestie all my threats are sent with the utmost love ❤️‍🔥

1. book you’ve reread the most times?

Either The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (my middle school fixation), Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (my copy is quite literally falling apart and the pages are so yellow from age), If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (my favorite book of all time), or Othello by Shakespeare (my favorite play of all time)

2. top 5 books of all time?

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio / Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

9. when do you tend to read most?

At night before bed (I hate going on my phone before bed, not just because it puts me in a really bad mindset but because my eyes get so sore and the light gives me such a bad headache lol) or when I'm on the bus and train on my way to campus. It takes me two hours to get to campus so I have a lot of time to read. Also when I'm in class and I'm really bored I'll read on my computer because I have iBooks synced to my phone and laptop.

12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

YES are you kidding me, I read 39 books throughout my school days and I have given 20 of them either a 4 or 5 star rating according to my Goodreads! The Bell Jar, Frankenstein, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Great Gatsby, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The Crucible, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Night, and The Devil's Arithmetic have incredibly special places in my heart.

#answered #about me #books #vii-writes

[witchern]

initially u were a 10 way back in the day many years ago but since i found out u never finished les mis it immediately dropped to a solid 3 and that 3 is composed of the sheer size of ur book collection (ily)

aslkdjhkjalsdh first of all i cannot believe i was ever a 10, second of all can you believe all these years later i STILL haven't finished it???? victor hugo whomst.

also we've been in this apartment less than a year and i'm already running out of shelf space for my books, pls send help 😭

on a scale of 1-10 how intimidating am i

#calormen #asks #<333

[omgpoindexter]

five quotes that live in my head rent free! i was tagged by the always wonderful @omgdexnursey - thank you elizabeth ily!!!!

“in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. such a constellation he was to me.” madeline miller, circe

“but if you must and you can, then there is no excuse.” phillip pullman, the amber spyglass

“picture a wave in the ocean. you can see it, measure it, it’s height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through, and it’s there, and you can see it, you know what it is. it’s a wave. and then it crashes on the shore, and it’s gone. but the water is still there. the wave was just a - a different way for the water to be, for a little while.” chidi anagonye, the good place, 4:13

“we must go on and take the adventure that comes to us.” cs lewis, the last battle

“will we ever go back?” “oh, i expect so. but it’ll probably happen when you’re not looking for it. all the same... best to keep your eyes open.” the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

“whatever causes night in your soul might leave stars.” victor hugo, ninety-three

im tagging @bi-ginny-weasley @stanthefrogs @jam-heathen @adambirkholtz and @pecanplease - enjoy!!! and tag me so i can see!!!

#I CHOSE SIX CAUSE IM A LITTLE REBEL WHO LOVES QUOTES #thank u elizabeth!!!! #xo

[camlem5]

WHY SO SERIOUS

A Reflection on Graphic design and implied humour

As a graphic design student myself, I couldn’t help but notice how many of my peers tend to regard graphic design as a serious matter, and express their art through either minimalistic international-styled compositions or futuristic models, but always with an underlying cryptic and solemn intent to it. But In fact, designers do have humour, mostly self-deprecating, and we like to have a good laugh between two work-induced tiny meltdowns. So what’s stopping us to get witty through our work?

Many –if not too many– designers seem to have built their practice around the wrongful idea that humour could undermine the legitimacy of one’s work. Playing around with shapes, letters and colors in order to induce a smile if not a laugh is today perceived as childish, unnecessary and utterly out of fashion. Today’s fashion is about being the most boring possible, and hoping that someone notices an hypothetical meaning behind static compositions. But these assumptions are inaccurate, and there are many good examples of such.

Rob Janoff’s Apple and FedEx logo are among the successful instances of clever multi-level visual pun. In the first logo, not only a bite is taken from the apple, but the bite in question is meant to be a “byte”, thus deepening even more the pun itself. Same goes with the FedEx logo, on which stands not only a negative space arrow between the E and X in Futura, but the whole meaning of the brand’s activity: Shipping and moving forward. Lubalin’s logo for Families is another brilliant example of the connivance between humour and serious stuff. The visual pun consists of the three ili letters, which when isolated, depicts a minimalistic family portrait through a subtle body variation.

I, for one, tend to be a little picky when it comes to including any kind of humour into my creations. But I always strive to find a way to get funky in a not too verbose way, as illustrated by this example of a book cover I made for an edition of Ceci tuera cela. I represented Victor Hugo's theory of the fall of architecture as a means of culture diffusion in a minimalistic way, with a simple broken pillar illustration over a solid crimson background. All this with the intent to play around with the reader's conception of what this Hugo's extract stands for, as well as a metonymy for referring to architecture in general. 

In fact, it is all about not doing too much, and finding a perfect balance between intelligibility and understanding by the public. Furthermore, wit can be a good way of distanciating from your work, and getting much more open about what people have to say about it, as witty design is often more open to interpretation. Humor acts as one of the best ways to get a message delivered to an audience, through its mnemonic properties, and way more likely to be remembered than a bland mix of typography and solid backgrounds.

Of course, visual humour is not meant for anyone,  and that's okay. As said by Steven Heller: Some have the knack, others don’t. Anyway, there’s no need to be fearful of adding a playful touch to your design.

[protectionsquad24601]

Gavroche is a force of destruction who lives in an elephant; truly the best character to exist ever

#les mis #les miserables #the brick #victor hugo #gavroche #my child ily

[likeshootingstarsinthenightsky]

emily dickinson & virginia woolf

Rach!!! ily and thank you for the ask!! ❤

Emily Dickinson: what's the last book you were reading?

The last book I was reading was Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

Virginia Woolf: what book had been on your TBR longer than a year?

Besides pretty much all Star Wars books, I'm going to say...One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez has been on my list for years!

#asks #rach ily

[gotohellstephano]

i haven't unfollowed you bc we are linked by the threads of time and fate. to have one shared obsession in 2013/2014, and then drift away from each other as time passes, as it is wont to do, only to come back and find each other once again bc of another shared obsession................. it has been woven by istus that we must remain mutuals. also ur chill as hell and a very good friend so why the FUCK would i unfollow

jords i’m CRYING

and it honestly really is wild that we were brought together through les mis and then solidified through taz like??? istus and victor hugo have been working together

ily

#joy #imma cry right here right now #ohsweetflips

[leg-gayblonde]

Please add your favorite Vicky Hugo quotes that are made grosser in light of his foot fetish

mine are:

the hem of your dress, when the tip of your shoe appears, completely overwhelms me. (les miserables vol. 4 book 8 ch. 1)

I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.  (les miserables vol. 4 book 8 ch. 1)

#victor hugo #Les Miserables #marius #yes he said both of these #oh hugo you gross old man #ily a lot #the brick

[dcarhcarts]

ROLEPLAY HISTORY

The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to roleplay as, have role-played as and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten characters, just write down however many you can and tag the same amount of people). Aside from that, please repost instead of reblogging!

CURRENTLY PLAYING:

Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova ( Broadway’s Anastasia )

Athos (BBC’s the Musketeers) - might be dropped soon?

Anatole Kuragin ( War & Peace / Great Comet ) 

Colonel (Theophilus but shhh tell no one) Fitzwilliam  

Dmitry Sudayev ( Broadway’s Anastasia ) 

Elizabeth Bennet ( Pride & Prejudice ) 

Eliza Schuyler ( Hamilton ) 

Helene Kuragina ( War & Peace / Great Comet ) 

Howl Pendragon ( Howl’s Moving Castle )

Jane Bennet ( Pride & Prejudice )

Lettie Hatter ( Howl’s Moving Castle )

Martha Hatter ( Howl’s Moving Castle )

Meg Giry ( Phantom of the Opera ) 

Natalie Goodman ( Next to Normal )

Natasha Rostova ( War & Peace / Great Comet )

Nick Carraway ( The Great Gatsby ) 

Pierre Bezukhov ( War & Peace / Great Comet )

Porpentina Goldstein ( Fantastic Beasts )

Sonya Rostova ( War & Peace / Great Comet ) 

Susan Pevensie ( Narnia )

Zoe Murphy ( Dear Evan Hansen ) 

WANT TO PLAY:

I want to play s o many characters but I have like....20+ muses. These aren’t happening unless I put them on a separate super low activity blog or something.

Karen Page - Daredevil / The Punisher. I don’t know if I”ll ever actually play her but she’s??? My favorite. I love her. I watch the shows f o r her honestly. She’s also like....exactly up my alley as a muse. Just someone I would have a great time playing, but also am terrified of screwing up, because i love her so much lmao.

Catherine Linton (i.e. Catherine Jr.) - Wuthering Heights. Very very On Brand for me. Also a particularly waspish female character, which is less on brand for me, but seems like a good challenge?

JOI - Bladerunner 2049. Sci-fi is probably not very on brand for m e but Joi just seems like a very flexible character to play. I like

Leonard H. McCoy - Star Trek (Specifically AOS). I’m nostalgic but I don’t think I’d actually pick him up. I used to write a ton of Star Trek Fanfic and I miss my Good Angry Doc

Thomas Schofield - Sorcery and Cecelia. He’s a little shit, the Marquis of Schofield, and from such an obscure book I may as well be playing an OC in the end probably, but he was considered for my Original Roster. Anyway, he’s a Regency Marquis who is also a magician, except he’s a dumb and his magical focus item accidentally ended up being a chocolate pot which is....so easy to break. Anyway, he’s rather clever, has got a bit of a pompous peacock thing going on, and is quite a bit less of an asshole than he’d like you to believe. 

Ok this isn’t specific but I’m.....like a book and a half through ASOIAF and not making a ton of progress bc I....have no time lmao but I’m getting the Terrifying Feeling that by the time I’m done I’m going to have another muse??? Stay tuned??? 

A bunch of Muses from the dramas I’m watching, but that blog is already in progress and I’m going to go ahead and call it SUPER LOW ACTIVITY since the fandoms are also pretty dead

HAVE PLAYED:

I.........really am not proud of any of these oops.

Enjolras (Les Mis the Musical) in like....I want to say 2015??? I deleted this because I was a full-cringe fanon portrayal. Just. I’m so sorry Victor Hugo. 

Enola Holmes (Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes / but also everyone who played w/ me was in BBC Sherlock so uhhh BBC Sherlock??) in......2017? I wanna say??? This blog you can still find, though I don’t really recommend you try. It wasn’t......great oof. I mean, I really liked the book series as a kid though? Just like.....it was great representation for a lil girl. Enola was constantly outsmarting Sherlock using Victorian Lady knowledge and I just. Loved it. She’s so clever. 

James Moriarty (BBC Sherlock), also in 2017. Not much to say about this one except to say I wasn’t active but people followed like crAZY when i w a s being active on Enola and nobody cared? and I was like “Well I ain’t having this bullcrap” so I just.............stopped dealing with it. Cause I was salty and anxious. Sorry not sorry lmao. 

Bway Group RP - Philip Carlyle, Sue Snell. I actually still love both of these muses but they just didn’t make my initial edit cut when I transitioned to this blog.

WILL/WOULD PLAY AGAIN:

Some of these I’d revisit for real; some I just wish I could.

Philip Carlyle - ok so I’m actually also super attached to Sue, but I also haven’t Stephen Kinged enough to feel comfortable playing her. Philip though - he was g r e a t fun. I think I really had the sweet spot between being a flirty jerkface and a genuinely not horrible guy that I can’t satisfy with muses like Anatole? 

Karen Page - Will I ever make it through the punisher??? that remains to be seen oops. 

I miiiiight pick up Catherine/Dolly. If I do, I’d have to pick 1 out of 2 and not do the other one for sure.

That ASOIAF muse is probs gonna come, idk tho

tagged: five million years ago by the long suffering @gcneralvaganov , who not only has to wait years for replies but evidently also for tagging games (sorry ily boo)

tagging: this is a long boi so don’t feel like you g o t t a do it but @personnages @nikolacvnas @moretreasurewithin @skylarkmuses @liabilitty

#( tagging game ) ✵ ~ DARLING IF YOU LOVE ME WOULD YOU LET ME KNOW ~ / #((or: you see how having zero impulse control is going to ruin my life))

[zasvepare]

Da biste stigli u Pont de Crau iz centra Arla, 

poći ćete bulevarom Clemenceau, koji će se pretvoriti u bulevar des Lices, koji će se pretvoriti u aveniju Victor Hugo, te napokon u Route de Crau. I tako dobra tri kilometra, samo pravo, nigde ne skrećući, nabasaćete na kružni tok. Na trgu ćete zateći ostatke antičkog mosta-akvedukta, nalik onom koji se zove Pont du Gard, samo mnogo skromniji, što je i znak da ulazite u selu Pont de Crau. Sve ćete morati da obavite peške: linija 3 (La Crau-XVème-CFA) nedeljom ne saobraća. 

Usput ćete se čuditi žutim plakatima polepljenim nakon svake raskrsnice, najavama velikog “vide-grenier” koji će se održati od 9 do 17 časova, u dvorištu osnovne škole Cyprien Pilliol u organizaciji Udruženja Prijatelja opštine Pont de Crau. 

I pitaćete se nehotice: “Zar se to ovde slobodno razglašava?” 

Da biste stigli u Zemun iz centra Beograda, 

najbolje da pođete Brankovom ulicom. A kad kod Ušća skrenete desno, bulevarom Nikole Tesle, samo ćete pratiti Dunav, dok ne stignete do Karađorđevog trga u Zemunu. Tu ćete skrenuti levo, pre nego što se Bulevar pretvori u Karađorđevu pa Glavnu, zatim Ulicom 22. oktobra, Vrtlarskom, uz Zemunski park, pravo Ulicom Jakuba Kuburovića, a onda levo (pazite!) Prilazom, i kad se obretnete u Prvomajskoj, pucajte samo pravo: račvanje sa Pazovačkim drumom nećete promašiti. 

Ovde vas usput nijedan plakat neće obavestiti da je “buvljak taj i taj, tu i tu, tad i tad” u planu. To su vesrti koje se prenose od usta do usta. Zauzvrat, ako vam bude nekim slučajem mrsko da tih desetak kilometara prepešačite, imaćete priliku i da se gurate u autobusu: linija 15 (Zeleni Venac-Zemun Novi Grad) saobraća i nedeljom. 

A kad, u Pont de Crau, 

naiđete na prve znakove stambenog naselja (pekara, trafika, apoteka) i na prvom ćošku desno upitate prvu prolaznicu “gde je centar Pont de Crau?”, ona će se nasmejati i odgovoriti:  — Pa ovo je selo, ovde nema centra! Ali će vas, već znajući kojim ste se dobrom tu zatekli, ispravno uputiti: — Ako tražite "vide grenier”, nastavite samo pravo, ulicom koja se spušta. Ubrzo ćete zbilja videti gomilu kako odozdo navire sa kesama. A kad se slučajno budete osvrnuli, vaša slučajna dispečerka davaće ista uputstva jednom šoferu, koji će kao strela prošišati pored vas, jer u selu je i ne mari za pešake.

 A kad, u predgrađu Zemun, 

dođete do prvih znakova pijace (pekara, trafika, apoteka), nikoga nećete morati da pitate: tu se sve već zna. Ni vi nećete znati da VEĆ ZNATE kud ste krenuli. Samo sledite gomilu koja će, već izlazeći iz petnaestice, zauzeti aerodinamičan položaj jata da bi se što kompaktnije rasula po prilazima buvljaku. 

Osećaćete se nesumnjivo toplije, kao da ste se sa svima njima dogovorili da na buvljak nahrupite zajedno, načičkani, ali osećaćete se i slobodnije, bez obaveze da se osvrćete ili da čekate ili da jurite za nekim iz krda. 

Pratite ipak treptanje vozila komunalne policije i kamiona za skupljanje smeća, koji začudo ovoga jutra neće biti narandžast nego beo: to nek vam biti jedini uslovni reper. Primetićete kako se polako miče, napred ka jezgru buvljaka, i kako s vremena na vreme čistači u narandžastom zahvataju ostavljene zavežljaje i ubacuju u prikolicu. 

Ali bez obzira što se osećate bezbednije u masi, ne zaboravite da se krećete saobraćajnicom: petnaestica će kao strela prošišati pored vas, jer u selu je i više ne mora da mari za pešake. 

Svaka tezga u Pont de Crau 

organizovana je kao Cabinet of Wonders, cabinet d’amateur, umetnička zbirka. Po jedan primerak od svake stvari, koliko god banalna bila, zastupljen je u pažljivoj scenografiji na stolu, koliko god bedan bio. 

Francuz nikada ne gubi iz vida da nastupa. Nije to nikakav “best of” onoga što ima da ponudi; to je izraz njegove vere u présentation: on želi da ti proda pakovanje. I da ti saopšti, kao potencijalnoj mušteriji: “ja znam šta prodajem: ovde sam izneo ponešto za tvoje oči, a koliko toga tek još imam!” 

Ni dvadesetak koraka nećete napraviti u dvorištu osnovne škole kada budete nabasali na knjigu: ZAŠTO SAM POJEO OCA Roja Luisa (Roy Lewis: Pourquoi j’ai mangé mon père, Actes Sud). Tek ćete se ovlaš zadržati nad njom, a jedna mušterija, koja neće propustiti da primeti vaše interesovanje odmah će vas obrlatiti:  — Molim vas, uzmite tu knjigu! Umrećete od smeha! Verujte mi, nećete se pokajati! Ja sam plakao!    Uzeće je u ruke samo da je opipa pa je odložiti za vas. Vi ćete klimnuti, možda odgovoriti “Hvala”, ali posle ćete, šta ćete kad ste takvi, baš zato što vam ju je preporučio, pored knjige proći. I čekaćete da se udalji da biste je pazarili. Za koliko? Za pedeset centi. 

Svaka prostirka u Zemunu 

organizovana je kao mušema, u biti zavežljaj (ko je imućniji, ili ko je imao više sreće kraj kontejnera, razvukao je i kofer) da bi se, kada se komunalna policija pojavi na vidiku, mogao što pre sakupiti, svezati i uprtiti na leđa, gde će potom nehajno zviždukati kao da se tu, na obodu Pazovačkog druma, samo slučajno zateklo. 

A kada komunalci prođu, onda će se opet razvući, razleći po trotoaru. I nad tim neraspakovanim muzejem prodavac će ostati na oprezu i gledati levo-desno, odgonetati ko je komunalac u civilu, a usput vrbovati pajtosa iz Gradske čistoće da njegovu robu poštedi pri raščišćavanju, “ako boga zna”. 

Kada se nahodate kroz vide-grenier u Pont de Crau, 

bogatiji za još jedan naslov koji je objavio Actes Sud (roman Tomasa Espedala, HODATI, MARCHER)  —  što na norveškom zvuči još primamljivije:  

Gå, 

uz kafu i pain au chocolat u jedinoj seoskoj pekari, na Putu za Arl, dobićete informaciju da se istog dana održava još jedan vide-grenier: u prigradskom naselju Barriol, u prihvatilištu za mačke. Odmah ćete se uputiti tamo. 

Kad se nahodate kroz jezgro zemunskog buvljaka, 

poći ćete Pazovačkim drumom do samog kraja, nadajući se da su komunalci u međuvremenu otišli. 

I videćete kako se zavežljaji razvezuju, kako se torbe rasklapaju, i videćete jednog izgladnelog jarca zavezanog za prikolicu bicikla, i videćete cenu i na prikolici i na jarcu i na biciklu, gde će stajati legenda: “nemačko biciklo na prodaju”, i videćete još mnogo toga što ćete prepoznati, ali u blatu, u bari, u izmetu, u nemogućim uslovima, i sva ta zapuštena, a prepoznata roba, ubrzo će se, koliko sutradan, povući ka obodima te tamo i ostati, dok narandžasti (ili beli?) kamioni ne dođu po nju.

U Školi za mačke u naselju Barriol 

detaljno će vam objasniti da “vide-grenier” jednom mesečno organizuju oni sami, udruženje volontera koje je osnovalo prihvatilište, i da sav prihod od prodatih predmeta i knjiga ide za održavanje prihvatilišta. 

Okruženi sa tridesetak mačaka koje na vas neće nijednom obratiti pažnju, nakon pola sata ozbiljnog brkljanja, iz škole za mačke u Barriolu ponećete SOIF Andreja Gelasimova, opet izdanje Actes Sud. 

Ponećete žeđ.

Međutim, koliko god Francuzi bolje pakovali 

vi ćete uvek biti naklonjeniji zemunskom buvljaku. 

Zašto? 

Jer samo na tom zemunskom buvljaku možete da naiđete i na zbirku Svetozara Vlajkovića, ŠTA BI UČINIO ZOBEC, nazvanu po priči koju vam je, pre dvadeset i kusur godina, čitala nastavnica srpskog, iz koje i dalje neke rečenice pamtite doslovno. A usput, ispostaviće se da je nađeni primerak posvećen Kaći Samardžić i Radetu Konstantinoviću, 1969. 

Zašto još? 

Zato što u okolini Arla nećete moći da nađete francuski rečnik devojčice iz 1943. godine koji prati izbor iz francuske lektire u izdanju Školske knjige Zagreb (CONTES CHOISIS, ŠK). Isti taj priručnik ste i vi, svojevremeno, pre tridesetak godina, nasledili od oca, kada ste ga konačno umolili da snese nešto sa tavana na kojem su se gložile stvari iz školskog perioda. 

Zašto još? 

Zar nije dovoljno? 

Zato što ćete na tom spisku reči naći i one koje su 15. oktobra 1943. izvađene iz priče Alfonsa Dodea, L’Arlésienne: Arležanka. 

Pa ćete početi da sričete, da se podsećate da tuile znači crep, brun mrk, irrégulièrement nepravilno, a grenier tavan. I prisećaćete se (ili zamišljati?)  kakve su se rečenice baš od tih mogle sastaviti. 

I setivši se da Arlésienne u francuskom znači i “ona koja je odsutna a o kojoj se govori”, shvatićete zašto će vam uvek biti draži Zemun: jer ćete tamo naći sećanja koja niste tražili.

Uveče ćete ipak 

otići na Sajam knjiga, kao i dosad, samo na antikvarni deo. 

Otkrićete nekoliko antikvara koji će vam na pitanje: “gde vam je radnja”, odgovoriti: “ovde, i nigde više, sada, i nikad više”. 

Čudićete se, opet, preturajući po njihovim knjigama, kako to da u toku godine od svih nadležnih ustanova dobiju samo sedam dana i ta tri četri kvadratna metra da svoje blago (budzašto) ponude kupcima. 

I bićete tako empatični, tako altruistični, tako zabrinuti za opstanak antikvarnih knjižara, tako zabrinuti za tretman od strane države — koja kao nekakav svaštar NE ZNA ŠTA SVE U SVOM POSEDU IMA — bićete tako angažovani, bićete takav aktivista, bićete orni za sve, za sve pare, sve dok, na tako nekakvoj, nečijoj hrpi, ne budete naišli na jednu knjigu (na jednog sebe?) kojoj ste se ponajmanje nadali. 

Bio je kraj 2013. 

kada ste u svojoj, tek otvorenoj izdavačkoj kući Knjižuljak, objavili zbirku priča i pesama Miodraga Danilovića Mitje, Sivi zbeg, kad vam je prvi paket stigao u ćumez na Dorćolu na kojem ste tada živeli: i kad ste jedva dočekali da ispošaljete primerke prenumerantima, pre nego što ste pošli u Pariz, na prvu prevodilačku rezidenciju. 

Otvorićete, sada, pet godina kasnije, Sivi zbeg i zagledati ga. Nigde neće biti nikakvog rukopisa, prepoznaćete materijal koji ste birali zajedno sa bratom i štamparem, materijal nežan i pod rukom hrapav, koji zaista nije bio namenjen vucaranju među drugim, gabaritnijim knjigama. 

I tako ćete se, KAO TAJ PRIMERAK na toj tezgi, odjednom snužditi, izaći i knjigu ostaviti za sobom. 

Taj susret, 

bez obzira što je susret sa jednom bivšom personom, taj susret, kojem ste se dugo nadali, premda ne baš u takvom obliku — očekivali ste sve, možda da vam se javi u obliku jednog izgubljenog dnevnika iz 2006, u obliku nekoliko pokradenih knjiga tokom bombardovanja 1999, u obliku raznoraznih predmeta koji su nestali prilikom svih vaših dvadesetak selidbi u poslednjih dvadesetak godina — taj susret sa samim sobom, naime, biće dovoljan da shvatite da je ovo poslednji izveštaj buvljačkog barometra za biblioždere Za sve pare. 

I da je vreme da i tu personu, bibliožderskog vodiča, barem u ovom izdanju, ostavite za sobom.

— Pa gde? — Kako gde? Tu, gde će neko moći da je nađe samo ako je ne bude tražio. 

#arles #zemun #pont de crau #barriol #francuski rečnik #1943 #sivi zbeg #knjižuljak #au revoir

[betweenironyandsilver]

MUSICAL ASKS: ALL! OF! THEM! (or as many as you feel like doing)

only u would want to know my shitty Thots on musicals lmao (jk ily)

1. Favorite (Reprise)

for pure head-bobbing enjoyment, this honor goes to paris/look down (les mis), but for narrative purposes, i would pick the just you wait reprise (my fair lady) because i love how you can see how much has changed 

2. Best Act 1 ending.

one day more (les mis) sure does get the blood pumpin'

3. If you could go back in time to see a certain production, which one would it be?

i would kill to see the original my fair lady with julie andrews and rex harrison

4. Who should write a musical?

i guess she already has her own musical tv show, but i would definitely go see an entire musical by rachel bloom

5. The routine you recreate when home alone:

nothing, really lol...i have the bad trait trifecta of being very self-conscious, a mediocre singer and also unable to dance

6. A duet you’d love to perform and with whom.

i want to perform confrontation (les mis) with someone, doesn’t even matter whomst

also i love bad idea (waitress) but i sadly do not have the vocal capacity for those higher notes so probably no one else should be subjected to that 

7. A musical everyone can learn from.

sorry that like half these answers so far are les mis-related, but i do think that les mis has something for everyone, and it’s about LOVE and REDEMPTION and FORGIVENESS

8. Favorite set design EVER.

the great comet set design (or rather, theatre design) made me gasp out loud

9. Favorite person to play (insert role)

the main musical i follow extensively through multiple casts throughout the years is my fair lady lol and my favorite person to play eliza doolittle (excluding julie andrews obviously, who is god-tier and on a different plane of existence from us mortals) is lisa o’hare

10. Best digital #ham4ham

i didn’t watch these because by then i was getting a little fatigued about hamilton lol

11. Make up a name and the ingredients for a Waitress pie.

Too Scared to Graduate, Too Tired to Keep College-ing pie, which is filled with lemons and tears

12. Best tap number.

i love the little tap battle in bottom’s gonna be on top (something rotten!) 

14. Express your love for the orchestras!

they’re all valid and lovely!!!!!! when i saw les mis at west end, we could look into the pit from our seats which was so cool

15. Favorite musical written by (insert composer, lyricist)

you didn’t give me a composer/lyricist lol so im gonna say that i love alan menken and howard ashman and my favorite musical by them is beauty and the beast

16. Which part (or parts) do you sing in One Day More?

you can sing all of them if you’re not a coward

17. A line that never fails to make you laugh.

My father newly dead and the funeral boiled eggs now coldly furnished for the marriage table/methinks another chef might have whisked our desperate eggs together as one (from something rotten!)

and i would be a lot more zen/and i would punch a lot of men/if i had my time again (from groundhog day)

18. An upcoming production you’re excited for.

THE MOULIN ROUGE MUSICAL IN BOSTON!!!!!!!!!!! i wanna see it so bad

19. Do you have any funny misheard lyrics from a showtune?

hmm, none that come to mind rn

20. A musical you would NEVER see with your parents.

well my parents don’t really like musicals so we’re already a little out of options, but they would probably hate musicals that are a little “out there”

21. Musicals can introduce you to new cultures, interests, fancy words and so on. Name 3 things you’ve learned from musicals.

i felt like i was missing a lot of the references in jesus christ superstar (and i was) when i initially listened to it, so i went and read up on the various biblical stories

after watching les mis in high school, i went and actually read les mis, which was fun, and that led me to read some other stuff by victor hugo as well

i didn’t know anything about leo frank before listening to parade, and it was interesting to read about

22. Favorite OBC.

my fair lady OBC forever, we stan a singing legend with a supposed four-octave range

23. Cast recording you know by heart.

>open my itunes 

>only one album, the sound of music (film version)

>3000 plays

24. Cast recording for a long car ride.

i’m a little over hamilton but it is VERY fun to sing along to in the car

25. Favorite Miscast performance.

:( i don’t really watch these, sorry

26. I really like these ones so: make 2 musical related confessions.

i think wicked is overrated

 i kind of wish we would stop making musicals about random movies

27. Showtune of the day:

‘s wonderful (funny face)

28.  Who would play you in a musical about your life?

my life is not exciting enough for a musical

29. Who would play your best friend in a musical about your life?

see above

30.  Who would play your romantic interest in a musical about your life?

romance?? in this economy?? 

31. 2 solos you’d love to perform.

if i had the vocal capacity, i would love to sing vanilla ice cream (she loves me) and stars (les mis)

32. Describe yourself with 3 musical theatre characters.

i’m very bad at describing my own qualities lol

33. A character that inspires you to be better.

jean valjean, hardened embittered convict turned loving father and CHRIST FIGURE

34. A showtune that always puts you in a good mood.

she loves me (from she loves me lol) is so fun and happy. the bit where he goes “i wonder why i didn’t want her/i want her/that’s the thing that matters/and matters are improving daily!” is so fun!

35. A showtune that makes you feel melancholic.

she used to be mine (waitress) makes me think about how i’m not really very happy with where i am in life, but also that i don’t know how to really address these issues

36. Best showstopper.

something rotten!/make an omelette; a bunch of dancing eggs on the stage that unfold their costumes to turn into omelettes? random musical and shakespeare references? could your faves ever

37. A place you consider to be your Santa Fe.

hmm...i guess greece?

38. The name of the prettiest theater you’ve been to.

lyric opera of chicago owns my entire ass

39. The most intense scene from a musical.

el tango de roxanne makes me go into cardiac arrest every damn time

40. A great cover of a showtune:

hmm i can’t think of anything off the top of my head

41. Put your phone on shuffle and write the first 2 showtunes that appear.

valjean’s soliloquy (les mis) and looking down the barrel of a gun (gentleman’s guide to love and murder)

(the worst part of this one was that the first two songs that came up on shuffle were showtunes)

42. Best design of a Playbill.

i don’t actually have particularly strong feelings about any playbill designs, they are mostly all nice!

#christina replies #witchfinder-major-saucepan