I don't think you'd be amiss if you said that most architecture that people put that degree of effort into was like a church or done for religious reasons just because there weren't that many like huge secular buildings. He's right like the way that music was treated up until the renaissance and then especially into the romantic era it was woven into religion. All the music that we have from that era for the most part is religious or at least drawn from religious traditions until around the turn of the 20th century when folk music codified and written down even though it existed um oh that's fascinating what a smart dudeYeah I'm mostly saying that he is implying that because he doesn't
We're dipping back in the Victor Hugo well this week with his other best-known book The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Did you know that the book and the Disney movie don't end the same way?
Also on tap: road trips, games of tag, revisiting the poverty question from last week, and talking about Hugo's views on architecture vs. the printing press.
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