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I'm lactose-intolerant (very much so!) and use a lot of Lact-Aid in daily life to deal with it. The brand-name stuff is expensive (Target: $12ish for 60 pills, other places $15ish), and the generic stuff carried by a lot of stores is less expensive (Target: $9ish for 60 pills) but still not great and has the additional problem of some brands come from a different factory and are made differently, and taste pretty nasty. Even with that faux vanilla flavor some of them like to boast of having. Regular Lact-Aid is pretty chalky to begin with; when you add a vaguely fishy taste to it...yeucch.

There's been a local shortage of Lact-Aid, and I can't find it anywhere (no idea why; haven't found any news about it), so I've been looking at generics again. Target generic: nasty. Kroger generic: nasty. Wal-Mart generic is just about exactly the same as Lact-Aid, but I hate going to Wal-Mart. Not for ethical reasons, but because of the parking lot. I've never come across a Wal-Mart with a well-designed parking lot.

And so I finally turned elsewhere. Toby's got a Costco card through his work, and he buys their generic Zyrtec ($18 for a 365 pill supply!), and thus I looked it up on their website and yes: Costco has a generic lactase pill. We dropped by Costco this weekend (entering the place at 5:55, and learned that they close the doors at 6, but don't kick people out until closer to 7), and bought a box.

Turns out: it doesn't taste nasty! Woo! And at $15 for 180 pills, significantly cheaper than anywhere else.

Question

I just reached the introduction of the student revolutionaries in Les Miserables, and there's a reference i think i may not be getting.

One of them is named Jean, and the text says that he called himself Jehan, 'with the touch of fantasy that characterized the profound and widespread impulse of that time, which has given rise to our most necessary study of the Middle Ages.'

Is it that Jehan is an older form of the name, is it that it's a more rustic version, what?

At lunch right now and on my phone so Hoogling isn't much of an option. (I like that typo so won't change it to Googling.)

Question

I just reached the introduction of the student revolutionaries in Les Miserables, and there's a reference i think i may not be getting.

One of them is named Jean, and the text says that he called himself Jehan, 'with the touch of fantasy that characterized the profound and widespread impulse of that time, which has given rise to our most necessary study of the Middle Ages.'

Is it that Jehan is an older form of the name, is it that it's a more rustic version, what?

At lunch right now and on my phone so Hoogling isn't much of an option. (I like that typo so won't change it to Googling.)

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Today's Les Miserables quote:

"To err is human, to stroll is Parisian."