A proper dirtbag was M. Hugo, that he was. No comment but I lived in Paris for a year and can vouch for there being something in the water of that city (oh, I guess I did comment, sorry)
BTW, I do have a street named after my family in my hometown in my country... that's a story in itself :). But I never moved there. I probably should.
Wow, there’s so much to unpack with this one. Those photos! I don’t think I’ll ever get them out of my head, especially the one with him posing on the rocks. And honestly, how did he write such dire stories when he was having so much sex? I feel like there’s a disconnect somewhere.
As for the Prussia thing, I am totally on board with that. Studying all that just about killed me in AP European history in high school. And I drowned in massive tomes about the subject in grad school. It is as dreadfully boring as you suggest.
I am in your Venn Diagram, I confess, because I knew who Amy Robsart was. But which of Hugo's novels has the anarchist polycule? I got bogged down in the first chapters of Les Mis because he spent what felt like 100 pages describing the priest from whom Valjean steals the candlesticks.
OK hear me out: yes, that's true, but if you can get through the first 600 pages of Les Mis you will then meet my favorite 12 queer weirdos in classic lit: Les Amis de l'ABC, whom I will talk about for a thousand years. They're absolute tertiary Les Mis characters but the Musichetta/Joly/Bossuet canon throuple has a voracious internet following that I think would shock M. Hugo were he to learn of how fond we are of it.
The entire book is like this! It’s a long time since I’ve read it but I’m pretty sure he spends at least 15 pages describing a single archway at a convent!
can confirm: I'm rereading and just struggled through three chapters where he describes how the streets around the Petit Picpus convent form a triangle.
If you're looking for a true Prussian Dirtbag, you could do no worse than Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt. He was the guy that helped Wellington defeat Napoleon. Notorious womanizer and gambler, he staged a mock execution of a priest for laughs, and if you think that's not bad enough have a look at what he got up to at Waterloo...
"Unless someone suggests a dirtbag so absolutely scandalous that it becomes worth my while to learn what Prussia is and why, this status quo will continue."
Was he the one who wrote a letter to the actress Rachel being like "I would like to join your union of lovers" and she sent it back being like "Rachel is no longer at this address" and then he hated her forever?? Or was that Alexandre Dumas. Based on what I've just read, I have to think it was Vicky H.
honestly I don't remember but if anyone ever denied VH entry into a union of lovers he would have been beside himself with angst about it for the rest of his life so...sounds correct
Well Prussians were famous for ascetically not being distracted from their main interest in life, which was war, Prussia being an army with a small country attached to it. But for instance their foes in the 7 year war, the Saxonians, were famous for their being the satyrical opposite to that. I guess you‘d find an interesting dirtbag there in Sacony, but dirtbags they were all of them. It‘s just that the Prussians were stiff ones.
My god what a man. I lost it at the state funeral and the mourning period for the loss of the greatest client the streets of Paris have ever seen. Best read of the day!! looking forward to Friedrich Nietzsche :)
“Now, to be clear this is not a sentence I enjoyed writing, but: Victor Hugo was convinced his parents conceived him on June 24th, 1801. A number you would write, European-style, as 24-6-01. The prison number he famously gave the protagonist of Les Miserables, Jean Valjean.” Um, this is absolutely something I would do. I even know I was four weeks late coming into the world. I mean, I would be giggling at someone writing a musical and then shouting out this number at the climax of the song. Pun absolute,y intended. Hope this doesn’t make me a dirtbag...
A proper dirtbag was M. Hugo, that he was. No comment but I lived in Paris for a year and can vouch for there being something in the water of that city (oh, I guess I did comment, sorry)
BTW, I do have a street named after my family in my hometown in my country... that's a story in itself :). But I never moved there. I probably should.
The Taylor Swift comparison and the description of his godfather as “Royalist Shack Man” absolutely made this for me.
Wow, there’s so much to unpack with this one. Those photos! I don’t think I’ll ever get them out of my head, especially the one with him posing on the rocks. And honestly, how did he write such dire stories when he was having so much sex? I feel like there’s a disconnect somewhere.
As for the Prussia thing, I am totally on board with that. Studying all that just about killed me in AP European history in high school. And I drowned in massive tomes about the subject in grad school. It is as dreadfully boring as you suggest.
I am in your Venn Diagram, I confess, because I knew who Amy Robsart was. But which of Hugo's novels has the anarchist polycule? I got bogged down in the first chapters of Les Mis because he spent what felt like 100 pages describing the priest from whom Valjean steals the candlesticks.
OK hear me out: yes, that's true, but if you can get through the first 600 pages of Les Mis you will then meet my favorite 12 queer weirdos in classic lit: Les Amis de l'ABC, whom I will talk about for a thousand years. They're absolute tertiary Les Mis characters but the Musichetta/Joly/Bossuet canon throuple has a voracious internet following that I think would shock M. Hugo were he to learn of how fond we are of it.
It’s called The Miserables for a reason!
The entire book is like this! It’s a long time since I’ve read it but I’m pretty sure he spends at least 15 pages describing a single archway at a convent!
can confirm: I'm rereading and just struggled through three chapters where he describes how the streets around the Petit Picpus convent form a triangle.
If you're looking for a true Prussian Dirtbag, you could do no worse than Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt. He was the guy that helped Wellington defeat Napoleon. Notorious womanizer and gambler, he staged a mock execution of a priest for laughs, and if you think that's not bad enough have a look at what he got up to at Waterloo...
I'm obsessed with how many people read that sentence as "challenge accepted," although you may have won with "mock execution of a priest for laughs"
Blucher also fought several battles, at the age of 72, convinced that he was pregnant. With an elephant. I swear I am not making this up.
THE WAY Y'ALL SHOULD HAVE LED WITH THIS
"Unless someone suggests a dirtbag so absolutely scandalous that it becomes worth my while to learn what Prussia is and why, this status quo will continue."
Kaiser Wilhelm II has entered the chat.
Another hilarious piece. Thx for making me laugh on this dreary rainy day-- yes, Seattle.
I do love the musical, Les Mis-- abbreviated probably because no one wants to put on their HS French accent.
The rock pose 😂 I die
Was he the one who wrote a letter to the actress Rachel being like "I would like to join your union of lovers" and she sent it back being like "Rachel is no longer at this address" and then he hated her forever?? Or was that Alexandre Dumas. Based on what I've just read, I have to think it was Vicky H.
honestly I don't remember but if anyone ever denied VH entry into a union of lovers he would have been beside himself with angst about it for the rest of his life so...sounds correct
God I love Victor Huge so much. So glad I got that 24601 tattoo....
Well Prussians were famous for ascetically not being distracted from their main interest in life, which was war, Prussia being an army with a small country attached to it. But for instance their foes in the 7 year war, the Saxonians, were famous for their being the satyrical opposite to that. I guess you‘d find an interesting dirtbag there in Sacony, but dirtbags they were all of them. It‘s just that the Prussians were stiff ones.
This was a true delight.
Though I continue to live in outrage at my parents for getting everything backwards and naming me after a street. No we did not live there.
My god what a man. I lost it at the state funeral and the mourning period for the loss of the greatest client the streets of Paris have ever seen. Best read of the day!! looking forward to Friedrich Nietzsche :)
You are FAB
“Now, to be clear this is not a sentence I enjoyed writing, but: Victor Hugo was convinced his parents conceived him on June 24th, 1801. A number you would write, European-style, as 24-6-01. The prison number he famously gave the protagonist of Les Miserables, Jean Valjean.” Um, this is absolutely something I would do. I even know I was four weeks late coming into the world. I mean, I would be giggling at someone writing a musical and then shouting out this number at the climax of the song. Pun absolute,y intended. Hope this doesn’t make me a dirtbag...
Well it's not just me. Having lived in and around Chicago, it's the crabbiest vortex center of the Midwest.