So simple, these bare facts. So simple; so vast; so incredible. Reading this page is like mounting a small hill, and finding oneself on a mountain ridge, overlooking a vast cliff -- and a rolling vista below, all sunshine, all harmony, all hope, out of reach but visible now.
(Combeferre isn't here. He can't see his face, he can't show him this paper, but he can send the message.)
"Invisibly tiny creatures."
It seems beyond belief, but so do many scientific theories of fluids and forces. Enjolras is not a scientist. He wouldn't know where to begin in evaluating the theory.
He looks up. There's a burning intensity in him, banked, controlled, hot. "Soap, boiled water, strong spirits -- that's truly sufficient? Boiling water, cooking vegetables?"
The lives this would save. The thousands of lives.
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So simple, these bare facts. So simple; so vast; so incredible. Reading this page is like mounting a small hill, and finding oneself on a mountain ridge, overlooking a vast cliff -- and a rolling vista below, all sunshine, all harmony, all hope, out of reach but visible now.
(Combeferre isn't here. He can't see his face, he can't show him this paper, but he can send the message.)
"Invisibly tiny creatures."
It seems beyond belief, but so do many scientific theories of fluids and forces. Enjolras is not a scientist. He wouldn't know where to begin in evaluating the theory.
He looks up. There's a burning intensity in him, banked, controlled, hot. "Soap, boiled water, strong spirits -- that's truly sufficient? Boiling water, cooking vegetables?"
The lives this would save. The thousands of lives.