Rimbaud's girl

Draai said happily to Vitaly how he had beaten up Charles and vented her anger, while Arthur was listening with a smile on his face.The two of them learned all the bad habits of young people. Besides drinking, they also learned to smoke.But it is not the fashionable cigarettes of young people in big cities, but pipes.

Arthur liked to wear a little flat hat and have a pipe in his mouth.The pipe is not big, and there is a handful of pretty good golden-yellow flue-cured tobacco in it.Vitaly has repeatedly confirmed that marijuana is not yet popular in Charleville, only in Paris and some big cities, and it is a must-have for those fashionable literary youths.

What Vitaly worries about is that according to his brother's temperament of "I will try everything that is forbidden", after he comes into contact with marijuana, he will definitely like it.If it is said that all literary and artistic youths like to make something that can cause hallucinations, which is called "finding inspiration", Arthur is no exception.

And absinthe.He is not indulging in absinthe now because he has no money, but when he gets to know Verlaine and goes to Paris, he may...

He is now obsessed with "Parnasian" poetry, and he admires Verlaine and Mallarme very much, and he also heard that Paul Verlaine has relatives here in the Ardennes, near Charleville, not long ago because of the Paris Commune Because of the matter, Verlaine took refuge with relatives for a while.

Arthur had heard Verlaine mentioned, saying that he could write to Verlaine with his poems.He is quite self-satisfied and thinks his poems are great, but he is not recognized by others, which is what makes him very distressed.

The reality is that he is an unknown young boy, even if he writes flowers, he will not be recognized by the outside world, and he can only be an unknown Ardennes boy, a country boy.

His poems are different from the poems that have been popular before or are popular now. Although it is recognized that the real "geniuses" are only mathematical and musical geniuses, the same is true for literature, whether it is poetry or poetry. What a profound education, the text he wrote is also very different from the text that others need to revise repeatedly to "complete".The so-called "reiki" is "talent", which cannot be "acquired" or "imitated".

No one in Rimbaud's family could understand Arthur's poetry, and Vitaly dared not say that she could understand everything.His poetry has evolved from the naive nature of last year to the aggressive cynicism of the present.He hated the formality and boredom of the small town of Charleville, and also hated his mother's constant nagging, but he couldn't really leave, so he could only express his dissatisfaction with a childish rebellious second.

"No. All this filth begins with our priest!

oh!The people are no longer whores.We work together,

Three steps forward, and the Bastille is trampled to pieces.

The beast, blood oozes from every brick,

Disgusting; the Bastille stands there,

The mottled stone walls tell us everything,

And we are always haunted by its shadow.

When we take the tower, it falls apart! "

This long poem entitled "The Blacksmith" presumably expresses his indignation and disappointment at the failure of the Paris Commune.He is straightforward and innocent, and he expresses his thoughts in pure and unadorned sentences; he has the acumen and ego of a genius, but he still needs the approval of others.And his deepest worry, the first is not having money, the second is too young.

Without money, he can't always wander outside, nor can he go where he wants to go; if he is too young, he will always be despised by those older people.

Vitaly is deeply touched by these two issues.

"You won't stay in Charleville forever, I swear," she said seriously.

"I don't know how I'm going to get the money. I need a lot of money." Arthur was annoyed.This time he went to Paris, he walked back and forth, he was able to walk, and he was willing to walk, the total distance was only 480 kilometers; but he still couldn’t stay in Paris, and he didn’t know how to let others “read” his poems.

"I'll find a way to solve the money problem." She took care of everything, "If you pass the graduation exam and tell your mother that you are going to Paris to go to university, your mother will give you living expenses."

Arthur was still hesitating: he was really not interested in college.

Draai has already begun to tease him with great interest, "Yes, you should take the graduation exam, so that we can go to Paris to go to university together. By next year, Paris should be stable." As for his friend's wish, Draai is also Understand very clearly.He couldn't do the thing of running away from home and running to Paris by himself, he was afraid that his leg would be broken.His family was better off. Before Meziers was bombarded by the Prussian army, his family opened a department store and belonged to the small business class.But he didn't dare to run away from home, he was afraid of the tears of his mother, Mrs. Draai, this is the difference between people.

Ernest Drayer is a typical small-town boy, a little rebellious in a limited range, just imitating other boys-->>

Like a child, smoking and drinking.Although the two young boys had said that they wanted to meet women who had lost their way, neither of them had the courage—Charleville and Mézières were both small, and everyone knew what women who had lost their way. That is something that will definitely be ridiculed.

They never mentioned to Vitaly which girls they liked, and neither of them had much regard for the young girls of Charleville and Mézières, who were either stupid or too fond of laughing at others, except that The girls from the Rimbauds and the Draerts, and the girls from other families are not very good.

Vitaly didn't suspect Arthur's sexual orientation because he had written a few pornographic poems before, which were still his earlier works, and they were still very immature, so he forgot them once he wrote them. But Vitaly kept his works carefully all the time!

From her point of view, Arthur, who is not yet 17 years old, is a boy who doesn't know his "future". He hates his hometown, but he doesn't know how to leave his hometown.Applying "The Sorrows of Young Werther", his state can also be called "The Sorrows of Young Rimbaud".

She had already thought about it for him: first finish the graduation exam, and then wait until next year when the situation in Paris is stable, then Arthur can go to Paris to apply for university.She didn't want him to go to Paris and meet Paul Verlaine. Whatever Arthur's sexual orientation, he was underage and Verlaine shouldn't have seduced him.

Arthur didn't necessarily need to go to college, but he would need a college degree to be able to find a good job in the future.She still can't guarantee that she can make a lot of money to support him in the future, so she can only let him work hard first.As a younger sister, she is willing to support a genius brother, but first of all, she is still a 13-year-old child.

What can I do to make money and make a lot of money?

Both brothers and sisters were deeply distressed by this.

"Let's do a market survey first." A few days later, Vitaly, who was still "sick", solemnly announced.

"Market research?" Arthur wondered, what new term is this?

"It's just to see what industry is making money at the moment."

Both Arthur and Della were brooding.

Delahe said: "Construction industry?" This is because the war is over, and Mezieres, which has been bombarded, has started post-war reconstruction work. Houses, shops, and streets are being built everywhere in the small town.

"Let's go to the bakery." Arthur was quite obsessed with "eating".Boys his age are big eaters, never full, always hungry very quickly.

"Well, the bakery is always indispensable." Vitaly agreed, writing it down on a piece of paper. "As for the construction industry, neither my family nor yours are in this industry, so I don't understand."

Draer laughed "puchi", thinking it was funny for a 13-year-old girl to seriously discuss making money.

Vitaly didn't smile.Not only did she not smile, she also looked at him seriously.

He was a little embarrassed, "How about a department store?"

Vitaly thought for a while, "It's okay, but if you want money to rent a store, buy goods, and hire someone to look after the store, it's more troublesome." It's similar to a small supermarket in the future, not to mention making more money, to maintain food and clothing for the family Sure.It’s just trivial, and someone needs to watch the store, but having said that, opening a department store is quite suitable for their family. Mrs. Rimbaud has a job to do, so she won’t always be staring at the children and nagging; Dowry for Isabel - the family land will be reserved for the two older brothers in the future, and Saint Laurent's house is going to be given to the two daughters who are married closer, and the other daughter will get the mother's savings.

It did not occur to Vitaly to tell her mother that she did not want to marry, at least not with any dull man in Charleville.In her opinion, getting married is the most cost-effective business. If her mother doesn’t get married, she can live comfortably with her 3 dowry and land rent income, and she doesn’t have to worry about her son in Secondary School — but then there is no genius poet Arthur is gone.well!This kind of thing is really bad.But you can't go and have a baby because of the uncertain prospects, can you?

So getting married is unnecessary, and having children is even more cost-effective.

After listening to Vitaly's opinion, Arthur agreed to open a department store at home.Because the mother has no formal "job" most of the time, her main job is to take care of the sick and control the children, so in the eyes of the 16-year-old rebellious boy in the second grade, the mother's nagging is really unbearable; men—including boys Counting women's work at home as "work" and "effort", Vitaly didn't think about correcting his backward machismo point of view now.Arthur complained that no one treated him as a "man" as an equal, but he didn't treat his sister as an equal either.

In short, my sister is still a child with a good idea, but she is not yet the age to do big things and make decisions.

So it was Arthur who went to Mrs. Rimbaud and said that a department store might be considered.