tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post6541131302440359249..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: Esmeralda--RepriseBetty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-33985341421963431622014-01-24T13:23:31.161-08:002014-01-24T13:23:31.161-08:00I was just rereading this, looking for the funny l...I was just rereading this, looking for the funny little exchange between Adam and Thimo ("Dr. Bamstra is out?" "Dr. Bamstra is in?") and was charmed by another little conversation between Thimo and Esmeralda when she finally sees his house and she tells him he needs any number of things, ending in ducks. "I do have ducks," he replied with the air of one delivering a trump card ...Betty Janet AOHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-39782866232746734502013-09-11T12:36:06.667-07:002013-09-11T12:36:06.667-07:00I think the Cone O' Silence Strategy makes sen...I think the Cone O' Silence Strategy makes sense from an RDD point of view. We see it in other novels as well. Thimo did not want <a href="http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16400000/Esmeralda-disney-leading-ladies-16434443-591-482.jpg" rel="nofollow">Esmeralda</a> influenced by his circumstances, his RDD Richness, he wanted her to come to love him for what he was, not for what he owned. I thought it was funny that everybody jumped on his Cone O' Silence Wagon, or do I mean train? I was amused every time Esmeralda's mom or Nanny, or the both of them together contrived to <i>not</i> tell her what she wished to know. Thimo's mom, too. Although, leaving <a href="http://www.diamondiberica.com/piedras-preciosas.html#2" rel="nofollow">Esmeralda</a> to believe that there was, in fact, a girl Thimo meant to marry... HmphBetty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-87583257164455062542013-09-10T13:01:00.976-07:002013-09-10T13:01:00.976-07:00I didn’t know. Did you know?
Esmeralda, the littl...I didn’t know. Did you know?<br /><br />Esmeralda, the little Gypsy street <b>dancer</b> in Victor Hugo’s <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i> (Original French title: <i>Notre Dame de Paris</i>) was accused of murder, among other things. She was supposed to have stabbed the man she loved, Phœbus, and because she refused to confess she was tortured.<br />(different translations:)<br /><a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=I31EG0Iv6zAC&pg=PA193&dq=how+shall+we+begin+%E2%80%9Ewith+the+boot%E2%80%9C+%E2%80%9Ethat+tiny+foot%E2%80%9C+%E2%80%9Eencased+between+iron+plates%E2%80%9C+intitle:The+intitle:Hunchback+intitle:of+intitle:Notre-Dame+inauthor:hugo+inauthor:victor&hl=de&sa=X&ei=mXEvUoD3G8OC4gTpy4GYBA&ved=0CDkQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=how%20shall%20we%20begin%20%E2%80%9Ewith%20the%20boot%E2%80%9C%20%E2%80%9Ethat%20tiny%20foot%E2%80%9C%20%E2%80%9Eencased%20between%20iron%20plates%E2%80%9C%20intitle%3AThe%20intitle%3AHunchback%20intitle%3Aof%20intitle%3ANotre-Dame%20inauthor%3Ahugo%20inauthor%3Avictor&f=false" rel="nofollow">How shall we begin?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=RC5AAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:The+intitle:Hunchback+intitle:of+intitle:Notre-Dame+inauthor:hugo+inauthor:victor&hl=de&sa=X&ei=yWUvUtGtCoiRtQbG7YGoBQ&ved=0CEEQuwUwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22with%20the%20boot%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">"With the boot"</a>, which would have <b>crushed her foot</b>, eventually, if she had not screamed and then confessed to escape further torture. She was limping afterwards.<br /><br /><i>"Let the prisoner be loosed," added he to the torturers, "and brought back to the courtroom." When the prisoner was unbooted, the proctor examined her foot benumbed :with pain. "Oh, there's no great harm done!" said he. "You called out in time. <b>You may still dance.</b>" </i><br /><br />Esmeralda was a dancer – Esmeralda would love to be able to dance<br />Esmeralda’s foot was to be crushed – Esmeralda’s foot was crushed twenty-three years ago<br />Phœbus, the man she loved, wanted her but had a fianée... – Leslie, and his girl friend<br /><br />About Phœbus:<br /><i>He was of inconstant humor, and, must we out with it? <b>of taste a little vulgar</b>. Though of very high birth, he had contracted under his harness more of the habits of a common trooper. The tavern and its concomitants pleased him.</i><br /><br />You can read this version on books.google: <a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=RC5AAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:The+intitle:Hunchback+intitle:of+intitle:Notre-Dame+inauthor:hugo+inauthor:victor&hl=de&sa=X&ei=yWUvUtGtCoiRtQbG7YGoBQ&ved=0CEEQuwUwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME</a> by Victor Hugo <br /><br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com