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Count of Monte Cristo: Chapter 15
Sep. 29th, 2016 08:24 amYou guys, The Count of Monte Cristo is the best book. It is jam-packed with epic and delicious melodrama and characters who feel things TO THE VERY DEPTHS OF THEIR SOULS, aside from the wicked Danglars who has no feelings at all, and the also wicked Villefort who has feelings but villainously represses them in favor of his ambition.
Everyone else, though, FEELINGS ALL OVER THE PLACE. Dantes' father went ahead and died of despair after Dantes' imprisonment; Dantes' ladylove Mercedes is drifting around the streets of Les Catalans like a wraith, although I'm not sure if she's still on wraith duty now that six years have passed.
And Dantes himself? BURIED IN AN ABYSS OF DESPAIR, more or less literally, as he's in solitary confinement in the dank dungeon beneath the Chateau d'If. After six years of this he decides to starve himself to death (I'm actually impressed he made it six whole years before coming to this resolution)... only to be saved by the sound of a tapping in the wall! Could it be...? Another prisoner??? A POSSIBLE FRIEND?
IT IS! "I'll love you like I loved my father," Dantes informs his new friend fervently, never mind he hasn't even exactly met the guy at this point. It's been six years since he's seen anyone but a jailer! He's prepared to love anyone else!
This book is a total trip. I am almost sorry that I committed myself to merely one chapter a night. But on the other hand, that will make it last longer, so I can bask in the feelings for months on end rather than gobbling them all up at once.
Everyone else, though, FEELINGS ALL OVER THE PLACE. Dantes' father went ahead and died of despair after Dantes' imprisonment; Dantes' ladylove Mercedes is drifting around the streets of Les Catalans like a wraith, although I'm not sure if she's still on wraith duty now that six years have passed.
And Dantes himself? BURIED IN AN ABYSS OF DESPAIR, more or less literally, as he's in solitary confinement in the dank dungeon beneath the Chateau d'If. After six years of this he decides to starve himself to death (I'm actually impressed he made it six whole years before coming to this resolution)... only to be saved by the sound of a tapping in the wall! Could it be...? Another prisoner??? A POSSIBLE FRIEND?
IT IS! "I'll love you like I loved my father," Dantes informs his new friend fervently, never mind he hasn't even exactly met the guy at this point. It's been six years since he's seen anyone but a jailer! He's prepared to love anyone else!
This book is a total trip. I am almost sorry that I committed myself to merely one chapter a night. But on the other hand, that will make it last longer, so I can bask in the feelings for months on end rather than gobbling them all up at once.
