Complete [SOLO] The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle, by Emile Zola-ag

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And, completing the first chapter, here's Section 2! This is a grand, panoramic episode, and Zola handles it magnificently.

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And, completing the first chapter, here's Section 2! This is a grand, panoramic episode, and Zola handles it magnificently.

Zola is really good at the atmospheric descriptions!

Section 1 has 1 PL Note
@5:29 repeat "the Duchess de Rozan, in her single-seated brougham, and with her powdered lackeys; Count de Chibray"

Section 2 is PL OK

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One, cleaned up!

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One, cleaned up!

Section 1 PL OK

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Section 3!
Such cold villainy!

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Section 3!
Such cold villainy!

Only one PL note: @32:10 end of "another" cut off

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"Another" should be audible now, I hope

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Section 4
So much to admire! First the dramatic set-pieces, such as the scene on the Butte Montmartre. And then the structural marvels, like the twin vistas of Paris, first from Montmartre, and then from the Ile St. Louis!

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"Another" should be audible now, I hope

Section 3 PL OK

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Section 4
So much to admire! First the dramatic set-pieces, such as the scene on the Butte Montmartre. And then the structural marvels, like the twin vistas of Paris, first from Montmartre, and then from the Ile St. Louis!

One PL note: @1:01:51 repeat "with which the s-"

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Section 4, with nasty repetition snipped!

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Section 4, with nasty repetition snipped!

Section 4 PL OK

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Section 5 stands prepared

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Six, ready for PL.

It amazes me how well Zola matches the narrative--the story of the characters--with the critique of the Second Empire itself.

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Section 5 stands prepared

Section 5 PL OK