Victor Hugo Wrote ‘Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ to Save the Great Cathedral
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ You might say that the best fiction exists to disassemble expectations. Nature can be the same way, which is why, even when we understand the realities of fire, we’re still taken aback—in the modern, technologically-ramped-up age—when something like You want to say, “Wait, shouldn’t we be able to stop this?” and “Surely it is possible with all of our advances to keep such a blaze from beginning?” But that is not how nature works, nor how great fiction works; they’re both going to do ...
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