"Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du Temps qui brise vos épaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans trêve," he says, though the fragment of Baudelaire immediately reminds him of Grantaire, and in turn of Rogers and anyone else he had met who had gone from this place. He shakes his head, willing himself to not dwell upon it. "M. Baudelaire's advice is not without merits."