The Emperor, C'est Moi
Horiot, Hugo / Coverdale, Linda
Hugo Horiot is in love with wheels and all that cranks or turns. He is obsessed with the otherworldly language of pipes-they run, he imagines, from his family home to the center of the earth. He causes endless trouble at home and hates school. He muses: "I dream asleep, I dream awake"-but he dreams so hard he shuts out the world with reveries that are not just curious but dangerous and painful too. School is a prison he must escape, his teache...