1.2.1-Knightlypatroclus

yesterday’s and today’s chapters!

basically i give a lot of saint catherine facts and talk about my radio show that’s it

okay so in my radio show we have a character who wields a claymore to threaten people and make haggis and who runs a bar and that was pretty much all i could think about on that matter

it’s a sword

but oh, fake war ship! I wonder if people who think it’s a civilian ship will accidentally go onto it and bad things will happen? Isn’t that what happened with the Lusitania? At least that’s what my ninth grade history teacher said. she could have been wrong idk

no Classics references for me yet, reading onwards

fun facts about (the most famous) historical Saint Catherine though in case this is symbolic later


 * apparently she argued with a whole bunch of like Greek philosophers and won
 * she said ‘i’ll only marry someone prettier than me and smarter than me and richer than me and more dignified than me’ bc she wanted to remain an unmarried virgin all her life
 * she was tortured and killed (that (possibly apocryphal) catherine wheel story which you can look up bc torture things are really gross and im not discussing that ever)
 * i’m serious don’t look it up it’s horrible and really gruesome
 * she might not have been real
 * she might have been a fake christian version of hypatia
 * hypatia is the BEST btw go love her
 * regardless she was still considered very important
 * ok part of that was bc someone was like “oh yea i totally found her body @ mount sinai w the hair still growing and healing oil just coming out of her”
 * …yeah i don’t know either friend
 * her feast day is 24/25 of november depending on tradition idk this could? potentially? be subtle reference sometime
 * ok those were your possibly fake person facts of the day

victor hugo is so into talking about old dudes who still have all their teeth i distinctly remember that in les mis too

i guess it’s really impressive though

"You two are the only ones here who know my name."

"We will carry it to the grave," replied Boisberthelot. "As for me," replied the old man, "if I were to die, I would not utter it.""

that’s definitely foreshadowing someone is gonna fuck up

okay i’m sorry i don’t have more to contribute maybe i will later

Commentary
Pilferingapples Thank you for the Saint Catherine facts!:D One never knows when a sudden religious reference will come in handy with Hugo.