#the persian
Erik: It’s like foreplay.
Daroga:Donot call psychological torture foreplay.
Erik: Can I commit a war crime?
Daroga: Which war crime?
Erik: Uhhhh…. fuck I forgot the entire Geneva Convention.
Daroga: I have the social skills of a stag beetle.
Daroga: I’m admiring the architexture.
Erik: Architexture? Architecture.
Daroga: Archi-fuck you.
Christine: Books are good, you’re just a whore.
Erik: I can’t read.
Erik: That sounds like a you problem.
Daroga: No, it’s a you problem as well!
Erik: Do you care if I take the skin off the furby? I want to make him a god. Once he is free from his sinful flesh he can begin the path towards enlightenment. He will take care of us.
Erik: Also I want to softhack his circuits.
Daroga: I could literally not care less but please don’t saying anything that frightening ever again.
Erik: You have to stop watching so much anime, Christine!
Christine: Nani the fuck are you talking about?
Erik: That. That is exactly what i’m talking about.
(This just popped in my head so uh…)
Erik: You read my journal?!
Christine: At first, I didn’t know it was your journal. I thought it was a very sad handwritten book.
Erik: A vodka for me and uh… she’ll have a juice box.
Christine: Erik, I’m 16.
Erik:…
Christine: I can order my own juice box.
Raoul: Stop tying to rain on my rainbow.
Erik: You need rain to make a rainbow, you absolute moron.
Raoul:Don’t you use science on me!
Christine: There’s only one thing worse than dying.
Christine, rips off paper to reveal ‘Raoul dying’: Boom.
Erik:Raoul.
Christine:No.
Daroga: Are you talking to yourself?
Erik:Yes, it is the only way I can have an intelligent conversation.
Christine: Treat spiders the way you want to be treated.
Erik: Killed without hesitation?
Daroga, to Erik: If you slit my throat tonight, I’m gonna have a hard time forgiving you.
Erik: Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
Meg: I’m too gay for this.
Christine: For what?
Meg: *gestures vaguely at everything*
Daroga: Why’d you do that?
Erik: Do what?
Daroga: Get stabbed.
Erik: Because somebody stabbed me…?
Erik is flattered by your appreciation.
((I apologize for the lateness of this, a lot of personal things came up this summer))
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The Phantom Map
I have marked some of the most important locations mentioned in the Leroux novel on this 19th century map of Paris:
- Erik’s home, the Palais Garnier
- Christine’s flat in the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires (no specific number)
- The Persian’s flat in the Rue de Rivoli (presumably at no. 204, where the real Persian lived)
- The Madeleine Church, where Erik was planning to marry Christine
- Raoul’s home in the Faubourg St. Germain is only marked as an approximation, as most of the Faubourg isn’t even on this map, since it is located on the other side of the Seine.
PotO locations - The Persian’s Flat
The Persian in Gaston Leroux’s novel is based on a real person named Mohamed Ismael Khan, who lived in Paris until his death in 1868. In the novel, the Persian’s apartment is described as being located on the Rue de Rivoli opposite the Tuileries. The “real” Persian lived on the first floor at no. 204, Rue de Rivoli, so it is likely that Leroux had this house in mind when he wrote Phantom. As you can see, the house is indeed located across from the Tuileries gardens. This is one of the most exclusive districts of Paris, about 15 minutes walking distance from the Opera.
This is where „End of the Ghost’s Love Story“ would have taken place.
