Re: [LoGH] Guess who these sound like.....(very long!)Corrected one
Fri, 20 Oct 2000 06:06:55 -0700
This one is the correct one as well. Sorry for disturbing you.
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>差出人 : "スズキユミ"
>宛先 : logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>件名 : [LoGH] Guess who these sound like.....(very long!)
>送信日時 : 2000年 10月 19日 (木) 11:17 PM
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> Thank you all for answering my question about Kircheis!
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> I have been in N.Y. for only for three days for a meaningless purpose.
> I just came back to Tokyo yesterday evening.
> I happened to visit a shop called "The Anime Crash" in Soho(is it in Soho?
> I'm not sure). It seemed there were few merchandise to compare with
> the capasity of the shop. There,I found a "Eatman" video series with
> English subtitles! My recomendatin is "Berserk" though,it hasn't sold in
> the states yet(I'm not sure...). It's so cruel and ugly,but it's worth to
> watch once at least that please watch the series if you could get them
> with English subtitles.
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> O.K. now I am going to write down the main subject here.
> I wanted to report this for a long time, but I didn't have the
> translation.
> Fortunately, I could find the book at a book shop in 47th street.
> It is "Les Miserable" by Victor Hugo.
> I will transcribe some sentences below.
> I would like to know who in LoGH you imagine.
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> from:[Book Fourth/The Friends of ABC]
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> Enjolras,whom we have named first,the reason why will be seen by-and-by,
> was an only son and was rich.
> Enjolras was a charming young man,who was capable of being terrible. He was
> angelically beautiful. He wa Antinous wild. You would have said,to see the
> thoughtful reflection of his eyes,that he had already, in some preceding
> existence,passed through the revolutionary apocalypse. He had the tradition
> of it like an eye-witness. He knew all the little details of the grand
> thing, a pontifical and warrior nature, strange ina youth. He was
> officiating and mulitant; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of
> democracy; above the movement of the time, a priest of the ideal. He had
> a deep eye, lids a little red, thick under lip,easily becoming disdainful,
> and a high forehead. Much forehead in a face is like much sky in a horizon.
> Like certain young men of the beginning of this century and the end of the
> last century,who became illustrious in early life, he had an exceedingly
> youthful look, as fresh as a young girl's, although he had hours of pallor.
> He was now a man, but he seemed a child still. His twenty-two years of age
> appeared seventeen; he was serious, he did not seem to know that there was on
> the earth a being called woman. He had but one passion, the right; but one
> thought, to remove all obstacles. Uppon Mount Aventine, he would have been
> Gracchus; in the Convention, he would have been Saint Just. He hardly saw
> the roses, he ignored the spring, he did not hear the birds sing; Evadne's
> bare bosom would have moved him no more than Aristogeiton; to him, as to
> Harmodius, flowers were good only to hide the sword. He was severe in his
> pleasures. Before everything but the republic, he chastely dropped his eyes.
> He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was roughly inspired and had
> the tremor of a hymn. He astonished you by his soaring. Woe to the love
> affair that should venture to intrude upon him! Had any grisette of the
> Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint Jean de Beauvais, seeing this college boy's
> face, this form of a page, those long fair lashes,those blue eyes, that
> hair flying in the wind, those rosy cheeks, those pure lips, those exquisite
> teeth,felt a desire to taste all this dawn, and tried her beauty upon
> Enjolras, a surprising and terrible look would have suddenly shown her the
> great gulf, and taught her not to confound with the gallant cherubim of
> Beaumarchais the fearful cherubim of Ezekiel.
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> Beside Enjolras who represented the logic of the revolution, Combeferre
> represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the revolution and its
> philosophy, there is this difference--that its logic could conclude with
> war, while its philosophy could only end in peace. Combeferre completed and
> corrected Enjolras. He was lower and broader. His desire was to instil into
> all minds the broad principles of general ideas; he said ”Revolution ,
> but civilisation;” and about the steep mountain he spread the vast blue
> horizon. Hence, in all Combeferre's views, there was something attainable
> and practicable. Revolution with Combeferre was more respirable than with
> Enjolras. Enjolras expressed its devine right,and Combeferre its natural
> right. The first went as far as Robespierre; the second stopped at
> Condorcet. Combeferre more than Enjolras lived the life of the world
> generally. Had it been given to these two young men to take a place in
> history, one would have been the upright man, the other would have been
> the wise man. Enjolras was more manly. Combeferre was more humane.
> "Homo" and "Vir" indeed express the exact shade of defference. Combeferre
> was gentle, as Enjolras was severe, from natural purity. (some lines
> omitted)
> He was learned, purist,precise, universal, a hard student, and at the same
> time given to musing,"even chimerical," said his friends.
> (some line omitted)
> Enjolras was a chief; Combeferre was a guide. You would have preferred to
> fight with the one and march with the other. Not that Combeferre was not
> capable of fighting; he did not refuse to close with an obstacle, and to
> attach it by main strength and by explosion, but to put, gradually, by the
> teaching of axioms and the promulgarion of positive laws, the human race
> in harmony with its destinies, pleased him better; and of the two lights,
> his inclination was rather for illumination than for conflagration. A fire
> would cause a dawn, undoubtedly, but why not wait for the break of day?
> A volcano enlightens, but the morning enlightens still better. Combeferre,
> perhaps, preferred the pure radiance of the beautiful to the glory of the
> sublime.(to be continued to the third person)
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> O.K. I stop it once here. The third person is someone whom you do know
> well but I dare write it in another mail as I'm afrraid it is still
> included in "spoiler warning".
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> Rikako
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