I'm (still) working on putting 1935 up on AO3 and I forgot I had hidden this little gem:
Carlisle in chapter 4: One thing is certain, he thought bitterly when he got home from work Tuesday morning, I'm never doing this again. I'm through playing God.
chapter 5 title: Playing God
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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Preface (Les Miserables 1935)
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.
HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.
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Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) 1935
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Les Miserables (1935) is the version that has this as the opening screen.
Transcript:
So long as there exists in this world that we call civilized, a system whereby men and women, even after they have paid the penalty of the law and expiated their offenses in full, are hounded and persecuted wherever they go--this story will not have been told in vain. --Victor Hugo
trying to claim that that was what Hugo wrote I just!!
Flames!! Flames on the side of my face!!
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songs from 1924 to 1935 that are played on desrocher's radio, on the radio at the sanatorium, or as '45s throughout the duration of the story. to me
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