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[10littlebullets]

And you thought I wouldn't be doing any more translations of the deleted Brickbits, did you?

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[mollisher]

Yay!

[ex_sweeneyto598]

I apologize if this sounds like a stupid question, but there were deleted parts of Les Mis?

[10littlebullets]

.....yes. I got an edition full of footnotes with Hugo's notes and alternate versions from first drafts. I'd estimate there's about sixty to a hundred pages of material in there that never made it to the final version.

[shawk]

Too bad he didn't leave some of this in (well, maybe not this part), and leave out, oh, I don't know... the damn history of the sewers. ;)

[10littlebullets]

....not really. XD The vast majority of the deleted portions were digressions even worse than the sewers. There's one I'm currently transcribing, about prostitution and general misery, and another one that consists of more "pages of history" about the July monarchy. And then there are little relevant fragments like this--Tholomyès sees baby Cosette again; les Amis run into Patron-Minette in an abandoned quarry; several outtakes of Javert's resignation, the burial alive bit in the convent, the opening scene in the Corinth, and M. Gillenormand's rantings; a bunch of cute little notes on the Amis. I think it's really neat, but then again I actually enjoyed the history of the sewers.

[josiana]

I find this far too amusing. XD

[tyriangalley]

Ahahahaha, poor Tholomyes. XDDD