bigR
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question for orestes fastingsorry to start a new topic just for this.
I've been around here a few days, mostly browsing through old topics so that I don't repeat myself too much... and I really think that I'm going to like it here since there's lots of humour and clever posts, so different from the usual fundamentalist fandom you find in a lot of forums!!!!
Well after this few days, I've just noticed for the first time Orestes fasting signature and it cracked me down!
could you tell me where did you take your signature from? It is just something you made up or is it part of a longer parody? Because, if it is a longer parody, please! tell me where can I read it!!!!!!!
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lesmisloony
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Sorry to steal the topic, but if you mean this:
| Quote: | | "You are victims. You are the painful products of misery. We want a country so happy that you will become honest again. We sympathize with you, we weep over you, we work for you. And if any one of you comes into my barricade, I will have him shot." |
It's a deleted scene from the Book between Les Amis and the Patron-Minette. The brigands show up and ask to join the revolution, and Enj says the above.
You should check out her website. She has a ton of awesome trivia and a lot of deleted scenes like this. It's quite exciting.
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Fantine
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Do you know that there is this lovely function called PM?
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bigR
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I know about the lovely PM function! (that's why I said I was sorry) but this was sooo much quicker... i already got my answer 
Any way: I really have to read the Brick again!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't remember that at all!!
I was SO SURE it was a parody on Enjolras!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am laughing even more now!!!
I did not remember that scene at all! I just read it and think "it is so IC for Enjy but so exagerated and parodic at the same time!"
Yes, I've already googled the book, read the french lines, and still can't believe it!
I absolutely love the "MY barricade" part. (it's my toy, don't you dare touching it!)
OMG you can't but LOVE that guy!!!!!!!!
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Orestes Fasting
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It's not actually in the book; it's a scene that Hugo wrote, then decided not to include. It involved the Friends of the ABC holding a meeting with other revolutionary groups in the quarries or catacombs, only to run into Patron-Minette.
Here's the full scene:
Corresponding to the upper opening, through which, according to the time and the season, sun and rain passed, was a large and wet circle on the floor, a pool in winter, mud in summer. A cryptlike day fell in this crevasse in the quarry. After some moments the eye grew accustomed to it, and one ended up distinguishing the lineaments of subterranean roads, the debris of the breach inserted here and there with horizontal bands of limestone, and the leperous puckerings of the stone on the ceiling of the passages; in this twilight these rough vaults resembled the stomachs of elephants, whose legs made the pillars. Seeing all these monstrous feet, motionless in the shadow, one could have believed oneself beneath an enormous herd of petrified mastodons.
As Enjolras finished speaking, vague faces appeared at the edges of the faint light. There was a noise as of naked feet in the mud. The young men turned around. A new audience was making its entrance, an unexpected audience. In the darkest part of the quarry, eyes shone, some round and phosphorescent; strange heads moved in the earthen pallor of the underground; several yawned as if they had just left sleep. A semicircle of wild masks formed confusedly in the haze. These faces watched and approached. They were probably men.
"Who are you?" asked Enjolras.
A voice, in which a police agent could have recognized the quite proper tone of Babet, answered, "We are protestors like you."
"Different from us," said Combeferre.
"We are your friends and your brothers."
"Our brothers, yes; our friends, no," said Enjolras.
There was a silence.
Enjolras continued, "I can see who you are."
"We are thieves," cried another voice, that of Gueulemer.
"You are the social disease," replied Enjolras. "We want to cure you. We have seen you. Very well. Now leave."
The voice that had spoken first interrupted Enjolras. "Citizen, we were there, we heard you. What you have said is good. We are, like you, enemies of the existing world. If there is something, if they're tearing up the paving stones, count on us."
Enjolras responded, "You are victims. You are the painful products of misery. No misery, no theft; no mindlessness, no crime. We want a new society where there will be no men like you anymore. We want men like you to be healed as wounded men, not killed as enemies. We want a country so happy that you will become honest again. We want to save you. We feel moved to the depths of our insides by your unhappiness. We sympathize with you, we weep over you, we work for you."
"Bravo!" cried the darkened group.
"Thank you," said the one who seemed to be the leader.
"Now," Enjolras continued, "I have something to say to you. If any one of you comes into my barricade, I will have him shot."
They separated. The young men climbed back into the daylight, and the others re-entered the night.
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bigR
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Thank you SO much! I had found the quote in google when lesmisloony said it was Hugo who had written it, but I thought it belonged to the book and somehow I hadn't seen it!
I think that this has become my favorite scene now!
the "you are the social disease. We want to cure you. We have seen you. Very well. Now leave" is PRICELESS too, but nothing can beat "my" barricade 
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lesmisloony
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I don't think it's supposed to be comedic...
bigR, can I ask you a favour? People around here are a lot more likely to respect you and take you seriously if you try to limit yourself to a maximum of two question marks or exclamation points.
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bigR
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| lesmisloony wrote: | I don't think it's supposed to be comedic...
bigR, can I ask you a favour? People around here are a lot more likely to respect you and take you seriously if you try to limit yourself to a maximum of two question marks or exclamation points. |
i know, i know it is no supposed to be comedic! That's why I love it! It is so exageratedly"enjolraic" that I mistakenly thought it HAD to be a fanfic parody.
It is the fact that it is serious and was writen by Hugo that makes me love it so much, I don't know if i explain myself properly? It is sooo extremely IC that it becomes unwillingly parodic...
I mean, I really could see the Enjy from the Mizzies saying something like that to Montparnasse...
And sorry about all the question marks and exclamation points. But I just couln't help it, I was laughing too much!
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