Ninety-three By Victor Hugo, Aline Delano

Ninety-three By Victor Hugo, Aline Delano: "mysterious dull revenge nothing is so inexorable as the rage of the inanimate The mad mass leaps like a panther it has the weight of an elephant the agility of a mouse the obstinacy of the axe it takes one by surprise like the surge of the sea it flashes like lightning it is deaf as the tomb it weighs ten thousand pounds and it bounds like a child's ball it whirls as it advances and the cireles it describes are intersected by right angles And what help is there How can it be overeome A calm succeeds the tempest a cyclone passes over a wind dies away we replace the broken mass we check the leak we extinguish the tire but what is to be done with this enormous bronze beast How can it be subdued You can reason with a mastiff take a bull by surprise fascinate a snake frighten a mollify a"