reading classic books becomes 100% better if you look for the hilarious little moments. like. i just finished les mis a few days ago and? it’s absolutely just hilarious?
that time where victor hugo was just like “wrapping marius’ bandages was the LITERAL WORST because they hadn’t invented adhesive tape yet, wow sucks for them”
valjean breaking into people’s houses to give them money
that part where everyone sees valjean collecting his money from the woods and just assume he’s the devil
the chapter title “marius becomes real enough to give cosette his address”
the fact that during that chapter, cosette is like “marius, come to england with me!” and marius is like “buT I’M POOR AND ALL MY CLOTHES ARE SHABBY AND I OWE COURFEYRAC MONEY AND I CAN’T AFFORD A PASSPORT” so he goes and stands with his head against a tree for two hours while cosette sits next to him and cries
and then he doesn’t just tell cosette his address. no, he chips it into the wall using a knife.
that time where valjean accidentally broke into a convent, then had to break out of the convent, and in doing so, went via coffin because a nun had died and they secretly buried her in the convent but had to tell the authorities that they were totally burying her in the graveyard. totally. definitely not under the altar.
then he almost got buried alive because fauchelevent’s bud the gravedigger just had to go and die and this new guy was all up-tight and like “noooo, i can’t go get a drink, i must bury this coffin”
also the chapter title “deposit your money in some forest rather than with some notary” a.k.a. that time that valjean just casually made 600,000 francs and then just buried it in a forest for ten years
1. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Holland. He was named after his grandfather and his stillborn brother who died one year before Van Gogh was born.
2. Van Gogh was 27 years old when he painted his first piece.
3. When Van Gogh first began painting, he used peasants as models. He would later paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay the models.
4. Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures.
5. In a short period of ten years, Van Gogh made approximately 900 paintings.
6. During one of his seizures, Van Gogh attempted to attack his friend Paul Gauguin with an open razor. This ultimately resulted in Vincent cutting off a piece of his own ear – but not the whole ear as is often rumored.
7. Van Gogh created his most famous work The Starry Night while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.
8. Vincent Van Gogh visually depicted turbulence, an incredibly complex (and still unsolved) mathematical principle in several paintings during a particularly chaotic time in his life.
9. Vincent shot himself in a wheatfield in Auvers, France, but did not die until 2 days later at the age of 37. His brother Theo, at his side when he died, said that Vincent’s last words were “La tristesse durera toujours” which means “the sadness will last forever.”
10. Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime and only became famous after his death.
