How did a man born of Eastern descent, a man who called himself the Prince of Peace, a man whom the sacred writings describe as eating with prostitutes and providing wine at weddings and healing the sick and ignoring any political plot, a man who wants us to turn the other cheek and give all our possessions if we are sued, become associated with—no, become the poster boy for—a Western moral and financial agenda communicated through the rhetoric of war and ignorant of the damage it is causing to a world living in poverty?
My only answer is that Satan is crafty indeed.
"+ Donald Miller (via loveispatient)
(via marmaladeandcreamcheese)
teamenjolras a réagi à votre billet :
À la volonté du peuple je fais don de ma volonté
S’il faut mourir pour elle moi je veux être le premier
Le premier nom gravé au marbre du monument d’espoir!
Translating the french lyrics is my guilty pleasure - these are Feuilly’s lines in ‘Do you hear the people sing’.
Yet, between the students, he was the 4th to die.
(via pilferingapples)
“What’s wrong?” Feuilly asked of Prouvaire, as they sat at breakfast in the midshipman’s mess. Berland, the senior midshipman, was on watch and would be dining late, so they felt free to talk.
Prouvaire glanced over at Grantaire, but he was apparently hungover and paying them no mind. “I’m being punished for not minding the sandglasses as I was ordered,” he admitted, blushing. “Reporting to the officer of the watch every hour, at least all day but until further orders. I was so afraid I’d not hear the bell and miss one that I didn’t sleep very much after I got off watch.”
Feuilly grimaced. “Hard luck,” he said. “You must be really tired.”
SOMETHING I REALLY REALLY REALLY DON’T KNOW ABOUT ENJOLRAS:
………what the heck WOULD he have thought about redistribution of the nobility’s property and the Ventose decrees for the same? Would he have enthusiastically supported them like Saint-Just? I am having a hard time finding Robespierre’s opinion on the matter but I think he may have been more mild?
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT OMG THANK YOU ‘NONYME
Well, Hugo gives his vague-ass thoughts on property when he explains how to fix everything in the chapter “Cracks in the Foundation.” Here’s Julie Rose’s translation of the relevant passage
democratize property ownership, not by abolishing it but by universalizing it, so that every citizen without exception is a property owner, which is easier to do than you think
Now, whether Enjolras’s thoughts on property would necessarily match up with Hugo’s is a whole nother argument. But then, even if it would Hugo’s not terribly helpful here, is he? Dammit man, If it’s so easy why didn’t you give us a plan?
P.S. This is the only mention of property in the brick that actually bothers to discuss the institution. All other mentions are incidental, at least according to the searchable Hapgood version.
Thank you so much for pulling that out! Hmm….
….so basically this question comes down to “how would Enjolras interpret the right to property expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?”
AUGH I WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER, NOT HAVE TO COME UP WITH IT?
SOMETHING I REALLY REALLY REALLY DON’T KNOW ABOUT ENJOLRAS:
………what the heck WOULD he have thought about redistribution of the nobility’s property and the Ventose decrees for the same? Would he have enthusiastically supported them like Saint-Just? I am having a hard time finding Robespierre’s opinion on the matter but I think he may have been more mild?
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT OMG THANK YOU ‘NONYME
