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[Anonymous No.20958690]

Holy fuck i hate this fucking author, why the fuck does he write like this, who actually reads something like this for entertainment. Why do I need to a thirty page monologue about the battle of Waterloo to meat two side characters , and why do I need two whole books dedicated to the practices of a convent of nuns to understand the the main character wants to lodge with them for a few years. Why does he talk about absolute nonsense in the start of the third volume instead of getting down to the plot. A good third of this book is useless dribble that is meaningless to contemporary audiences that don't have a clue about the important historical figures of France in the 1870s, why the fuck is this important to the fucking plot. I hate this dude.

[Anonymous No.20958696]

>>20958690
If all you care about is the plot then you can save yourself a whole lotta time and just read the plot synopsis of every book.

[Anonymous No.20958731]

>>20958690
>useless dribble

[Anonymous No.20958732]

you are a soulless bugman

[Anonymous No.20958900]

Would you say it made you... Le miserable?

[Anonymous No.20958974]

You know what that means?

[Anonymous No.20958992]

>>20958900
top kek

[Anonymous No.20959082]

>>20958690
>One of Wagner’s most criticized works of the period was A Capitulation (Eine Kapitulation). While written in 1870, the work was not published until 1873. Although William Ashton Ellis correctly explains that the work castigates the Germans as much as the French and that the parody is harmless, it is not difficult to see why a Frenchman of the time might take offense. While Wagner’s real target is indeed the Germans and their attachment to French Opera and culture as opposed to true German Art, French culture is devastatingly disparaged throughout the short play.

>Wagner portrays Victor Hugo constantly popping up from the sewers of France, an obvious stab at Les Misérables. Hugo exclaims, “I am here, not through the Prussian ranks, but underneath them.” Hugo’s slithering through the bowels of Paris renders him “matter for 120 volumes.” Images of the “Holy guillotine,” and only those in the sewers finding anything to eat, Paris was undergoing a terrible shortage of food at the time. The Chorus of the National Guard sings “Republic! Republic! Republic-blic-blic!” to the strains of the can-can. The total decay and lack of values, the constant babblings of atheists and revolutionaries paint the absurd canvas. Amidst this chaos Wagner brings rats to the stage. When the cry goes up that “The city is starving” the chorus breaks into, “Rats with sauces, sauces with rats! Here, pass them, or hunger will dine off our hats!” Finally the rats metamorphose into Ladies of the French Ballet.

[Anonymous No.20959085]

>>20958900
based smileagator

[Anonymous No.20959087]

>>20959082
Wagner was an ugly hack.

[Anonymous No.20959209]

>>20958690
Never read Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.20959743]

>>20958690
Why do the sewer passages make midwits seethe so much?