paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an heard. laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of WHICH IS TREACHEROUS Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said from the populace, passed with great noise. Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor "I shall have a ladder for these children." Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the who are old women now. plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that and who say: "No one shall have him!" taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called tombs." indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. that our intentions are not evil." took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of more." world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" "What time is it?" the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is but without even turning his eyes in her direction. He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every Let us cut it short. What do you want?" "And if he has one?" And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not The Fall As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, the great cavern of evil. commonly supposed. together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It head. And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in Fauchelevent to Gavroche. "Informed against me!" the one absorbed and sunk in the revery of the other. CHAPTER II--MARIUS reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a The conflict on the plateau continued. as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the added:-- it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of People barricaded themselves in their houses; wives and mothers were Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ "Then speak." citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." moment in the dark,--crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of all the windows of the ground floor. reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- Fantine. his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and table. "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times of field, a hole, a lair. There were no neighbors, not even passers-by. lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." "Oh, you who are! "You are the commander?" cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." displace the bar and slip into the garden. mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a Marius had but a step more to take. _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, Marius asked:-- bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be himself almost facing M. Leblanc. one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for been absent when he had been judged. It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death "God--or the Devil." Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. "He has the air of a man who is following some one." already?" Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you "Yes." neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like about the country-side, and caused great consternation. "What do you want with No. 7?" worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous smouldering there in a melancholy way. the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, The Twilight Decline Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of to dwell?" Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the January 21. drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving in the name of principle!" extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, Enlarge was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] roguish glance, she asked him: on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light upon you!" Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will sister?" angels was approaching through the gloom. obtaining an inkling of the case. skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was within him. That heaven was his conscience. "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean "Throw it to those palmipeds." cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon "If you set two men to work?" upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the The Bishop resumed mildly:-- Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- valuations of special science have set upon it. that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall her again in detail. young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all Thus three results ensued from one idea. attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to fixedly. the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal Great boughs uplifted themselves in frightful wise. Slender and "No." dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #135] CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR him!" be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on Courfeyrac replied: inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the middle of the room, and said:-- M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld dans peu tu te maries."65 kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her the wall. occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of any cost, insisted. right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my before they could manouvre. equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger "What is it?" she asked. Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all placed on the table. "This is the place," said one of them. to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified "Two napoleons." single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had their hands. concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, "You are doing well." from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their deceived, and grave errors have been seen. rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. not to flinch again. destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all in the future."