Re: [LoGH] Guess who.....part 2 (spoiler warning+3&4) correct one
Fri, 20 Oct 2000 05:50:33 -0700
This is a correct mail as the one I have sent had too many miss-spellings.
I'm sorry for it.
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>差出人 : "スズキユミ"
>宛先 : logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>件名 : [LoGH] Guess who.....part 2 (spoiler warning+3&4)
>送信日時 : 2000年 10月 20日 (金) 1:14 AM
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> spoiler warning!
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> 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".
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> Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting 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 made 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, nor 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 simple
> 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 doubt 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
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> O.K. I finish here. Additionally, Enjolras was a blond-haired.
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