Bahorel has thought about it. The issue of embarrassment isn't one he's weighed too heavily in Enjolras' case-- yes, the narrative gets intrusive, but Enjolras wouldn't want to miss anything useful to spare himself a little awkwardness. But...
"There's a passage on Waterloo, some veritable essays on the nature of Revolution, a debate or two I think you might find interesting; I'll have them copied out, if you like. The events at the barricade, if you want to see how others might be remembering it. But on the whole--?" He laughs. "No,I suspect you'd be bored by most of it, as you would much of my reading. Love affairs, family dramas, a great deal of description of appearances, the nature of young womanhood and spring... I know we're not as occupied as we might wish, here, but I don't expect you've become quite that desperate for entertainment yet."
"Mind, I won't see it slandered; it's a fine work and an honor to the art. Whatever my arguments with Hugo's politics, and they are many, he knows his art. Not a word out of place, given what he meant to do. A feast of a book; but not, I think, one to your taste." He grins. "There are chapters about Marius' courtship."
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"There's a passage on Waterloo, some veritable essays on the nature of Revolution, a debate or two I think you might find interesting; I'll have them copied out, if you like. The events at the barricade, if you want to see how others might be remembering it. But on the whole--?" He laughs. "No,I suspect you'd be bored by most of it, as you would much of my reading. Love affairs, family dramas, a great deal of description of appearances, the nature of young womanhood and spring... I know we're not as occupied as we might wish, here, but I don't expect you've become quite that desperate for entertainment yet."
"Mind, I won't see it slandered; it's a fine work and an honor to the art. Whatever my arguments with Hugo's politics, and they are many, he knows his art. Not a word out of place, given what he meant to do. A feast of a book; but not, I think, one to your taste." He grins. "There are chapters about Marius' courtship."