Tumblr crosspost (31 March 2020)
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anghraineIn response to the novel referenced in this post, elwing asked:
What’s it called :O
I replied:
Caleb Williams! It’s got amazing hero/villain content, like
[spoiler cut]
VILLAIN. You want to leave me, do you? Who told you that I wished to part with you?
HERO. Sir, I could die to serve you! I love you more than I can express. I worship you.
and
My blood boiled within me. I was conscious to a kind of rapture for which I could not account. I was solemn, yet full of rapid emotion, burning with indignation and energy. In the very tempest and hurricane of the passions, I seemed to enjoy the most soul-ravishing calm … I felt what I had had no previous conception of, that it was possible to love a murderer.
What’s it called :O
I replied:
Caleb Williams! It’s got amazing hero/villain content, like
[spoiler cut]
VILLAIN. You want to leave me, do you? Who told you that I wished to part with you?
HERO. Sir, I could die to serve you! I love you more than I can express. I worship you.
and
My blood boiled within me. I was conscious to a kind of rapture for which I could not account. I was solemn, yet full of rapid emotion, burning with indignation and energy. In the very tempest and hurricane of the passions, I seemed to enjoy the most soul-ravishing calm … I felt what I had had no previous conception of, that it was possible to love a murderer.