richard Graham
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I have just read it first time. I started reading it in Paris in a <br>little apartment near Halles not far from the Palace of Justice.<br>The point being, so much of it is still there. And so much of Hugo's genius<br>will be with us for ever. <br>Coming from Midwestern American, where it seems nothing stands for more than<br> 30 year and where the human attention span is a 30 second sound bite;<br> life doesn't get any better than this book. <br>It is a lesson that "history does not simply repeat itself" but instead,<br> we humans keep making the same stupid mistakes.<br> The scandals of a dececant Catholic Church,<br> a King almost as arrogant and imperial as our governments.<br> The Louve and all of the other royal homes would befit our corporate elite<br> Victor Hugo has set the standard for "a Classic". <br>