[LoGH] Guess who.....part 2 (spoiler warning+3&4)
Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:14:38 -0700
spoiler warning!
Though I'm really not sure if this should be a spoiler or not,
I just put this in case this might disturb some people.
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This must be enough space for it....(sigh)
Please read below but forget the sentences that this guy was ugly and
alcoholic. His name actually start with "R".
(many lines omitted)
Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubbting minds
there was on sceptic. How did he happen to be there? from juxtaposition.
The name of this septic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with the
rebus:R[grand R,great R]. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to
believe anything. (some lines omitted.His ugliness and alcoholic sentences
was included here.Good!)
All these words: rights of the people, rights of man, social contract,
French Revolution, republic, democracy, humanity, civilisation, religion,
progress,were, to Grantaire, very nearly meaningless. He smiled at them.
Scepticism,that cries of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his
mind. He lived in irony. This was his axiom: There is only one certainty, my
full glass. He ridiculed all devotion, under all circumstances,in the
brother as well as the father, in Robespierre the younger as well as
Loizerolles. "They were very forward to be dead," he exclaimed.
He said of the cross:"There is a gibbet which has mde a success."
A rover, a gambler, a libertine, and often drunk,he displeased these young
thinkers by singing incessantly:"I loves the girls and I loves good Wine."
Air:Vive Henri IV.(for some reason, it's written [loves]---Rikako).
Still, this sceptic had a fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither an idea,
nor a dogma, mor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. Grantaire
admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this anarchical doubter
ally himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To the most absolute.
In what way did Enjolras subjugate him? By ideas? No. By a character.
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as sinple
as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us.
Nobody loves the light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drummajor.
The toad is always looking up at the sky; why? To see the bird fly.
Grantaire, in whom choubt was creeping,loved to see faith soaring in
Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. Without understanding it himself clearly,
and without trying to explain it, that chaste, healthy, firm, direct, hard,
candid nature charmed him. He admired, by instinct, his opposite. His soft,
wavering, disjointed,deseased, deformed ideas, attached themselves to
Enjolras as to a backbone. His moral spine leaned upon that firmness.
Grantaire, by the side of Enjolras, became somebody again. He was himself,
moreover, composed of two apparetly incompatible elements. He was ironical
and cordial. His indifference was loving. His mind dispensed with belief,
yet his heart could not dispense with friendship. A thorough
contradiction;for an affection is a conviction. His nature was so.
There are men who seem born to be the opposite, the reverse, the
counterpart. They are Pollux, Patroclus, Nisus, Eudamidas, Hephaestion,
Pechmeja. They live only upon condition of leaning on another; their names
are continuarions, and are only written preceded by the conjunction and;
their existence is not their own; it s the other side of a destiny which
is not theirs. Grantaire was one of those men. He was the reverse of
Enjolras.
O.K. I finish here. Additionally, Enjolras was a blond-haired.
Rikako
