Oh... do you by any chance think she believes that it is the female form of 'Governor'? This would explain why she thinks the Governor's wife and daughter are both governesses... *rolls on the floor with laughter*
That's exactly what I think. *laughs*
"In this late Baroque period" -- how do they know that they're in the 'late Baroque period' ? (a) they don't know that it's going to be called that in the future, and (b) they don't know that it's about to end; it's like Roman coins supposedly dated in years BC :-p
I don't know. I gave up trying to make sense of that paragraph.
"In Italy, they have turned to opera as a means to express the importance of the story nature of their concertos" -- does the author know what a concerto actually is?
No.
"in the confines of her own musical conservatory" -- given that she wrote about "going to the conservatory for her music lesson" in the previous chapter, I'm also wondering if the author thinks that studying in a 'musical conservatory' amounts to having an actual room in your house with a glass roof ;-p
Since having an entire school attached to your house would be a trifle awkward, I'm just picturing Christine and the musicians being surrounded by plants.
"The diva begins a familiar piece" -- since when has this Christine been a "diva"? She has never even sung in public that we know of...
Another word the author used without knowing what it meant.
Thanks for the French info--I don't speak a word of it, so I can't recognize when it's being mangled.
I have a feeling this author is one of those people who thought that just because the movie dialogue and lyrics were in English, the characters were all speaking English, even though the story is clearly set in France.
Also, I think Raoul has a point in suggesting that a life that involves (for some unknown reason) dealing with pirates contains quite a lot of adventure
Me, too. But the author wants us to see Raoul as stuffy for not wanting to see the world. (Never mind that traveling long distances in those days wasn't exactly a piece of cake...)
"His mind rotates with the thought of his first hanging" -- so his life has obviously not been that adventurous, then, given the frequency of public hangings in this era... also, he sounds more than a little queasy here ;-)
I think it would be IC for Raoul to be uncomfortable about sentencing a man, even a known criminal, to death, but I'm still not sure why he has the authority to hang pirates in the first place.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I suspect the author is trying to turn Raoul into someone like Commodore Norrington from PotC. Elizabeth liked Norrington and thought he was a good man, but she didn't love him.
"I am hoping to speak with Dr. Covent about your condition" -- given the euphemisms of the era, he has basically just implied here that she is pregnant :-D
How scandalous! I wonder whose it is.
I don't think gentlemen smirk (Raoul please note)
Eh, it's the author trying to make Raoul out to be all high-and-mighty and therefore unworthy of Christine. None of the canon versions of Raoul ever struck me as someone who goes around smirking.
I, alas, have never read or seen Les Miserables, but that fanfiction was wonderful!
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*rolls on the floor with laughter*
That's exactly what I think. *laughs*
"In this late Baroque period" -- how do they know that they're in the 'late Baroque period' ? (a) they don't know that it's going to be called that in the future, and (b) they don't know that it's about to end; it's like Roman coins supposedly dated in years BC :-p
I don't know. I gave up trying to make sense of that paragraph.
"In Italy, they have turned to opera as a means to express the importance of the story nature of their concertos" -- does the author know what a concerto actually is?
No.
"in the confines of her own musical conservatory" -- given that she wrote about "going to the conservatory for her music lesson" in the previous chapter, I'm also wondering if the author thinks that studying in a 'musical conservatory' amounts to having an actual room in your house with a glass roof ;-p
Since having an entire school attached to your house would be a trifle awkward, I'm just picturing Christine and the musicians being surrounded by plants.
"The diva begins a familiar piece" -- since when has this Christine been a "diva"? She has never even sung in public that we know of...
Another word the author used without knowing what it meant.
Thanks for the French info--I don't speak a word of it, so I can't recognize when it's being mangled.
I have a feeling this author is one of those people who thought that just because the movie dialogue and lyrics were in English, the characters were all speaking English, even though the story is clearly set in France.
Also, I think Raoul has a point in suggesting that a life that involves (for some unknown reason) dealing with pirates contains quite a lot of adventure
Me, too. But the author wants us to see Raoul as stuffy for not wanting to see the world. (Never mind that traveling long distances in those days wasn't exactly a piece of cake...)
"His mind rotates with the thought of his first hanging" -- so his life has obviously not been that adventurous, then, given the frequency of public hangings in this era... also, he sounds more than a little queasy here ;-)
I think it would be IC for Raoul to be uncomfortable about sentencing a man, even a known criminal, to death, but I'm still not sure why he has the authority to hang pirates in the first place.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I suspect the author is trying to turn Raoul into someone like Commodore Norrington from PotC. Elizabeth liked Norrington and thought he was a good man, but she didn't love him.
"I am hoping to speak with Dr. Covent about your condition" -- given the euphemisms of the era, he has basically just implied here that she is pregnant :-D
How scandalous! I wonder whose it is.
I don't think gentlemen smirk (Raoul please note)
Eh, it's the author trying to make Raoul out to be all high-and-mighty and therefore unworthy of Christine. None of the canon versions of Raoul ever struck me as someone who goes around smirking.
I, alas, have never read or seen Les Miserables, but that fanfiction was wonderful!