if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.
this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.
incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?
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today I remembered Varian and The Seven Kingdoms and how amazing it is.
Is the fandom completely dead..?😭
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I may have missed pride month but I’m not missing sharing my silly hcs
These don’t apply to storms edge but they’re basically the same sooooo, anyway I am throwing ace at everyone i possibly can.
Not the happppiest with how Hugo turned out but I had like an hour to do this before work so. (Two more weeks and I’m freeeeee)
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How r we doing vat7k nation I missed u guys
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Making a booknook of the Musain!!!!
This is my vague reference photo:
But I have a creative vision so we'll see how this goes. I found this cute paper to use for the wallpaper of the bottom floor. ↓ and I used lollipop sticks and stained them with watercolours to create the floorboards
Post hand-painting cobblestones after using hot glue to create texture. (It looks less shiny now because there it's still drying)
The creation of teeny tiny windows 😌
I then added a fireplace to give me some outline of interior design before I start building the exterior and the second floor. I'm also adding in posters and a table with bottles of wine to the bottom floor
I'll update as it goes along !!
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