Those are the problems I refer to, yes. Particularly the latter. I used to long for the experience of having seen those days, when I was young and stupid, but when I came to know the men who would become my brothers...that latter part became a nightmare, and the former unthinkable. To create something that lasts, a revolution does need more. Not only commitment to the cause, but commitment to those principles that caused it to began.
If not... the snake feeds on its own tail and hardly stops to realize it has done so, doesn't it? Not a strong basis for anything to last, though I am at least relieved that I was clearly meant for revolution and that when my task was ended, to be called to...
[To be called to what? Enjolras supposes, thinking about it that death doesn't apply here, really, does it? Not the death he'd considered, anyway.]
Well, to be called to what lies beyond, I do suppose, be it this, or something else. I will admit I have no mind for government, and perhaps my estimations were, still are, too rash. Experience makes a decent teacher, but there are times the decision to strike out, even against those voices can be right, can be principled, as we attempted to conduct ourselves.
Although...[He has to snort, his tone a little rueful now] The revolt that sent me to another world, two years later, that we had every reason to suspect would be the one after the Revolution Monsueir le marquis halted against much of the collective will...
Several people did warn us against that one,and less we had expected turned out to man the city's barricades. Perhaps there was something more that they knew after all, at least as our approaches were concerned.
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If not... the snake feeds on its own tail and hardly stops to realize it has done so, doesn't it? Not a strong basis for anything to last, though I am at least relieved that I was clearly meant for revolution and that when my task was ended, to be called to...
[To be called to what? Enjolras supposes, thinking about it that death doesn't apply here, really, does it? Not the death he'd considered, anyway.]
Well, to be called to what lies beyond, I do suppose, be it this, or something else. I will admit I have no mind for government, and perhaps my estimations were, still are, too rash. Experience makes a decent teacher, but there are times the decision to strike out, even against those voices can be right, can be principled, as we attempted to conduct ourselves.
Although...[He has to snort, his tone a little rueful now] The revolt that sent me to another world, two years later, that we had every reason to suspect would be the one after the Revolution Monsueir le marquis halted against much of the collective will...
Several people did warn us against that one,and less we had expected turned out to man the city's barricades. Perhaps there was something more that they knew after all, at least as our approaches were concerned.