Hey guys.
So I've received a lot of complaints on my
various videos that I
talk too fast and
Well, let's just say I've taken those criticisms
to heart. So for today's video, I'm trying something new
accompanied by
a
relevant story
with a message that I think I
could stand to take
to heart.
Now, unfortunately,
Red's drawing hand fell off in a tragic sitting incident last week and as such it falls to me to be humanity's last artistic hope.
So I've been told that my videos are less visually interesting than Red's, so for today's video
I'll be proving you all wrong by doing the drawings myself.
God help us all.
Who needs that when I'm here? Now, we've also
been told that in the process of
summarizing these stories we often leave out
important details,
sooo in an effort to solve that problem
Today's
summary will be as detailed as we can
practically make it.
And now, the reveal. Today we'll be discussing Victor Hugo's magnum opus,
Les Miserables.
(You're serious?)
Clocking in at just under six hundred and fifty six
thousand words, Les Miserables is a gloriously detailed account of the life and times of one Jean Valjean.
But don't worry, Hugo knew better than to make his story about just one man.
The novel is famous for its vivid and comprehensive digressions, which account for nearly one quarter of the total text of the novel.
(Dear God...)
So with no further ado, I'll get myself over to my drawing corner and let Red get started.
*clears throat*
So the story
begins with a lurid
description of the life and times of one Charles
Francois
Bienvenue
Myriel, who you may note is not John Valjean
But let's set that aside. As Hugo himself tells us, "Although this detail has no
connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate it will not be
superfluous if merely for the sake of
exactness in all
points." So Myriel was the son of a parliament councillor, which made him
functional
nobility, which was unfortunate since the French revolution
rolled into town,
causing Myriel to run off to Italy to avoid getting French
Revolution-ed. Then his wife
unfortunately died, leaving him alone when he returned to France.
several years later he had
abandoned his vicarious life and become a priest it was not until
1804 that he met
Napoleon who
After he called him a great man named him the cardinal and then later
appointed him the role of
Bishop so Myriel lived in the episcopal palace of a small
unnamed Town along with his younger sister
Mademoiselle Baptisteen and their Servant Madame Magloire
Baptisteen is described as
respectable Lean and diaphanous
With a ghostly pallor and I can't do this
Never again red.
Nope never again
This is what you wanted
Cut it yeah do it. We're done. We're done. We're done. This is over. Happy April. fool's day
wonder what all this empty slience is for