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tushanshu2013-12-07 06:48 pm
poeticverses) wrote in tushanshu2013-12-07 06:48 pm
Verse 09 - Video
[Here's a seldom seen face on the network. Jehan's been sick and it shows--he's paler than normal and he sounds a little stuffy.
(The illness was actually convenient. He hasn't been feeling very sociable and this gave him a very good reason to not be sociable.)
But he is feeling better and he supposes he'd best let whoever may have been looking for him know, as well as see who all has shown up in his absence. In the background, you can hear his panpipes playing 19th century Christmas carols]
I had forgotten that simply because I am indisposed does not mean that the world at large is equally indisposed. I have been largely unavailable for the last month, for reasons I suspect are obvious [and here he turns to cough] and I am afraid I have no idea where we are or what has happened. Would anyone be so kind as to, ah, inform me?
For those who may have joined us in the last month, or for those who may have forgotten my face, I am Jean Prouvaire, formerly of Paris.
(The illness was actually convenient. He hasn't been feeling very sociable and this gave him a very good reason to not be sociable.)
But he is feeling better and he supposes he'd best let whoever may have been looking for him know, as well as see who all has shown up in his absence. In the background, you can hear his panpipes playing 19th century Christmas carols]
I had forgotten that simply because I am indisposed does not mean that the world at large is equally indisposed. I have been largely unavailable for the last month, for reasons I suspect are obvious [and here he turns to cough] and I am afraid I have no idea where we are or what has happened. Would anyone be so kind as to, ah, inform me?
For those who may have joined us in the last month, or for those who may have forgotten my face, I am Jean Prouvaire, formerly of Paris.
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[Never mind that it was a bit more than just a cold. Still, he's not dead so he counts that as a win.]
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[However, she's regarding him with a little more curiosity now.]
1832? Before or after the June Rebellion?
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I did not realize our little revolt was deserving of a name. During. I died on the barricades there and awoke here.
[He's...adjusted to the thought of being dead. More or less, anyway.]
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It has been written about.
[Although Les Misérables made it more famous than her history teacher did. She hasn't read the book, only remembered the classes.]
How long have you been here?
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Since...February, I believe. Perhaps late January. There are more of us from Paris, here, though Combeferre and I have been here the longest.
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You've seen a lot of what usually happens here then? What's changed the most?
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When we arrived, the city was...kinder, almost. Less fear, less fighting.