My Poor Cosette
Haha, nah I was ever brave enough to rebel or protest no matter how much I wanted to
sweatdrop I was really taken in by Hugo’s description of poverty, e.g. his descriptions of street urchins. The musical soundtracks are also pretty catchy. Do you like reading in general?
La planchada sounds like a nice spirit to have around
surprised I’d much rather have a helpful ghost than a mean one floating around. Maybe something that keeps an eye on my house when I’m gone, y’know?
That novel just inspire our deepest emphatetic passions, similar to other realism novels those crude descriptions showcasing the cruelest and saddest faces of the human race evoque such powerful feelings.
crying I used to, but I don't even read anymore.
sweatdrop I read very little french lit. but I liked Guy de Mapaussant a lot, and the first book I read in French was from Jules Verne, un billet de lotterie, la dame aux camèlies used to be my favorite book as a teen!
3nodding How about you? Do you like french lit or have any favorite lit genres?
FR, to think there's otherwordly beings so compasionate
crying la planchada deserves a medal.
Now I have a very old legend from the times Mexico was Spain's colony during the Spanish inquisition! (nobody expected the Spanish inq
4laugh ), the Legeng of Don Juan Manuel. It's a little long, hope you readers don't mind.
sweatdrop Don Juan Manuel was a rich and socially important man with a high position serving under Mexico's viceroy. He had a prosperous life and was married to a very beautiful woman named Marina that attracted many male gazes wherever she went. However his success caused a lot of envy from his enemies.
After sometime Don Juan Manuel and Marina wanted a child but Marina couldn't get pregnant, Don Juan Manuel was very upset and sorrowful, he went to a convent to pray and seek advice in order to have a heir. The envious people used this opportunity to spread fake rumours about his wife being unloyal to him.
When Juan Manuel came back and learned about the rumours he unfortunately didn't trust his wife and instead of God, he sought the help from the devil. After summoning the devil, the vile creature told him this: if you want to know who is the one who stole your joy and hurt your honor, walk at night and for the first person you encounter at exactly 11;00 p.m. then come to me and I'll tell you if it is the culprit.
After that Don Juan wandered the streets at night for many nights and whenever he found some one, he asked him the time, the victim answered "It's 11 o'clock" and Don Juan replied "Blessed those who know the time of their death" then unwinded a knife and killed them in instant. That continued and the devil always denied that the killed was the culprit until a very dark night, he, crazy of his jealousy didn't recognize what was his beloved nephew that he knew for a fact was innocent, at that moment Don Juan felt the guilt and regret for all the murders he commited.
He went to seek the help of a priest asking for a way to save his immortal soul, the priest told him that the only way for him to save it it's standing next to a gallow for 3 nights and pray the rosary. However every night extraordinary supernatural things happened, the first night in the middle of his prayers Don Juan hear an espectral voice from another plane saying "An Our Father and a Hail Mary for the soul of Dont Juan Manuel", Don Juan scared stoped his praying an ran... the next night in the middle of his prayers he saw a spectral procession known as the "santa compañia", they were carrying a coffin and came each time more close to where don Juan was and when they were close enough they opened the coffin revealing to him that the corpse they were carrying was his own body, as for the third night, the only thing we know is that the body of Don Juan was hanging over the Gallows, the belief if that it was the angels that hanged him and send his soul to purgatory.
Oof sorry it was so long hope somebody reads it at least.
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