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Sunday, 14 February 2021

Daily Shouts: Valentines Written by Victor Hugo



Kate Gavino, THE NEW YORKER
Valentine that says "Tear down the barricade around your heart, Valentine! (We'll build a better more successful one in 1848.)"
Valentine that says "Your love is better than...that hack, Alexandre Dumas."
Valentine that says "Exile me to your arms forever! (Or at least until the Third Republic.)"
Valentine that says "Let me build a Gothic monument to our love, with flying buttresses and towering spires, and a power-hungry, murderous archdeacon."
Valentine that says "Roses are red, violets are blue. Long live The Republic! (Until the next Napoleonic coup.)"
Valentine that says "My love for you is like the Paris sewers...vital, deep, and well-fertilized."

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