"Then Look …
Look upon me…
For my whole person was a Grimace.
A huge head, bristling with red hair; between his shoulders and enormous hump, a counterpart perceptible in front; a system of thighs and legs so strangely astray that they would touch each other only at the knees, and, viewed from the front, resembled the crescents of two scythes joined by the handles; large feet monstrous hands; and with all this deformity,
A horrible monkey,
As wicked as I am ugly
A devil
Heard prowling round the eaves by night with cats…
A displeasing hunch back face…
Tell me Esmeralda do you still wish to gaze
At the face of Quasimodo?
- C"