OMGWTFPWN.

[tenlittlebullets]

While I'm on a spree of Brick nerdiness, I went down to the library to see if I could get the Maurice Allem annotated edition of LM on inter-library loan... and THEY HAD IT OMG right there in the library. And I checked it out and it is sitting on my desk right now and it is two thousand pages of miserable goodness with all the notes and variant text and deleted sections footnoted in the back. And the school library has no fees on overdue books so I can keep it until the end of the flipping SEMESTER if I want and... eeeee!

Will I be translating and posting extracts, you ask? You're talking to the person who procrastinates on her homework by copying out timelines. OF COURSE I WILL when I don't have class in five minutes oops better get going.

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[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I WILL MAKE LES MIS TRANSLATIONS MY HOMEWORK. And somehow get academic credit for them. Or something?

I'm just going to stuff cotton in my ears and cling to the illusion that ol' Vicky didn't have his character ages completely straightened out when he wrote that scene, because if some people thought the five-year age difference between Marius and Cosette was creepy, it's almost double that between Courfey and Azelma...! Not to mention you'd think he'd find someone cleaner.

[fish-bananas.livejournal.com]

YES YES YES YOU WILL. AND WE WILL BE HERE CHEERING YOU AWN. >:D

Definitely. It's more than double, isn't it?! Freaky thoughts. And it's not even some sort of fling, but they mysteriously cohabit a house together. You'd think they were a married couple if they weren't -- you know, Courfeyrac and Azelma for God's sakes. Maybe Hugo was an Enjolras/Eponine fan.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Nine or ten years, I think, versus five for Marius and Cosette. Which isn't terribly squicky and awful--I mean, there are plenty of people fifteen years older than I am whom I'd shag happily--until you consider that she's, what, fifteen? And they're mysteriously living together and quarreling like an old married couple. WTF'nF.

I think Hugo just went "shit, I need a random female character for Courfeyrac to carry on this conversation with and I'm too lazy to write someone new. Say, doesn't Eponine have a sister?"