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Hurdling Hugo: January 2012
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What brave new world is this that has such treasures in it? Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.". Charles Myriel a.k.a. Monseigneur Bienvenu, The Bishop of Digne. Which offers a 1987 English translation by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee&#...
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Hurdling Hugo: Moving On...: Reflections on a Year Spent Hurdling Hugo
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Moving On.: Reflections on a Year Spent Hurdling Hugo. Il dort. Quoique le sort f. T pour lui bien. Trange,/Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange./La chose simplement d'elle-m ê. Me arriva,/Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va. He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,/He lived, and when he lost his angel, died./It happened calmly, on its own,/The way night comes when day is done.]". Hugo Final Day Count:. Hugo Final Page Count:. Was, to be sure, one of the great literary exp...