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coquelicoq · 2 years ago

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i have finished the first part (of five) of les misérables! that's the good news. the bad news is that i now have to read the second part, which opens with a 70-page section entitled "waterloo". like babe i do not know what ANY of these nouns are though. i'm getting that there was a battle at which lots of people died horribly (as often happens in battles) and we are now describing the battleground thirty years later. okay so are we gonna do this for the whole 70 pages or...

#i think we're actually about to move on to describing the battle itself possibly beat by beat #so i'm getting ready to see a bunch of VERBS i don't know. never a dull moment!#at one point he hit me with like five unfamiliar nouns in a row but because i know the word for 'well' i'm pretty sure he was #talking about various parts of the well mechanism. words i probably don't even know in english because i've never used a well in my life #i saw 'meurtrières' & was like ok first thought is Women Who Kill. but in context i feel like it has to be some kind of war equipment #apparently it means arrow slits #i just feel like if you're going to take 70 pages to talk about waterloo it's probably for a reason #and i'm probably missing out on the reason because i'm just letting the sentences wash over me because i only half know what they mean #anyway. bad shit happened at waterloo! war is hell! that's my takeaway so far #i am really glad i already knew about the lion statue irl or i would have been so confused by that part lol #i would have been like sooo...is this a metaphor for something?#why would there be a lion on this hill in belgium #but unfortunately that's about the extent of my knowledge of waterloo. other than the fact that napoleon lost lol #les mis #my posts

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