It's reassuring. It's selfishly reassuring, to see his own bafflement mirrored on Enjolras's face.
"That's what I--eh, I'm sorry, I know it sounds like I'm talking at random. Isolated interests, an interest in isolated subjects--it's something Father Harman said. But I think we just misunderstood one another. I think we misunderstood one another through the whole conversation. I--do you think it's strange that I'm--that I'm not quite comfortable with the Vikings here? Father Harman seemed to think it was strange. That I wasn't understanding enough. And--and you know, here we are in this place and finding there are so many things we didn't understand in our time--things we were wrong about, nations and races and--men and women--"
Yeah, he knows he's talking very much at random now. Half a dozen trains of thought have all tangled themselves up at once: nationalism, violence, religion, history, selfishness, feeling, choice, government, all sorts of things. Enjolras will surely have a clearer head.
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"That's what I--eh, I'm sorry, I know it sounds like I'm talking at random. Isolated interests, an interest in isolated subjects--it's something Father Harman said. But I think we just misunderstood one another. I think we misunderstood one another through the whole conversation. I--do you think it's strange that I'm--that I'm not quite comfortable with the Vikings here? Father Harman seemed to think it was strange. That I wasn't understanding enough. And--and you know, here we are in this place and finding there are so many things we didn't understand in our time--things we were wrong about, nations and races and--men and women--"
Yeah, he knows he's talking very much at random now. Half a dozen trains of thought have all tangled themselves up at once: nationalism, violence, religion, history, selfishness, feeling, choice, government, all sorts of things. Enjolras will surely have a clearer head.