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日清のどん兵衛明太チーズカルボナーラうどん。
Mentai cheese carbonara udon noodles of NISSIN Dombei.
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Beyond Great Expectations
We still have a little way to go with Great Expectations, but it is perhaps time to start planning what will come next! There will be a poll in the near future, but I want to get some feedback to begin with.
My thoughts are currently geared towards choosing our next book from the ones below.
Dombey and Son (October 1856/2023 to April 1848/2025)
Little Dorrit (December 1855/2023 to June 1857/2025)
Martin Chuzzlewit (January 1843/2024 to July 1844/2025)
Oliver Twist (February 1837/2024 to April 1839/2026)
Barnaby Rudge (February 1841/2024 to November 1841/2024)
If there are others that people are keen to have put on the poll, I am open to suggestions, but keep in mind that the ones above are the only options that keep the wait between books to six months or less.
The current thinking is also that, in the gap between the end of Great Expectations (August) and the beginning of the next book (see above), we will send out an assortment of Dickens' short stories on a weekly or fortnightly basis.
If the wait covers the Christmas period, we may also send out one of his Christmas novellas, though perhaps not A Christmas Carol, as I believe others may be organising that one again.
Get in touch with any thoughts/suggestions/requests!
#dickens daily#charles dickens#tumblr book club#dracula daily#dickens#little dorrit#oliver twist#dombey and son#martin chuzzlewit#barnaby rudge#of these I haven't read MC or BR yet so I will probably do so before putting them on any official polls#also I don't want to impose my own will too much on these#but Oliver Twist is my least favourite Dickens so far and I'm worried it might get a lot of votes bc it's well known#ah well
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So I wrote this tiny scene in a little more than half an hour. It's kinda marauders fandom adjacent, though I have no idea how to stick this into any fanfic continuity, so let's just say it's a big ode to characters with daddy issues... BEWARE, IT'S TEEMING WITH EASTER EGGS.
And every night it's all the same. Every damn night Barty knows that as soons as he falls asleep it will start again over and over. The visions, fascinating, bizarre and barely comprehensible… Where he is, he doesn't know. Some kind of void, maybe. And he stands here, in this void. A hammer in his hands, and the mysterious Mirror of Erised is right before him. He doesn't have enough time even to quickly glance at it. Then immediately follows a bright blinding flash and almost deefening sounds of broken glass and finally he sees the Mirror of Erised cracked from side to side and falling into the myriads of pieces. Almost like in that fairytale about the Ice Queen… And in every of these mirror shards Barty sees a peculiar twisted version of himself.
In one of them he is in 19th century France. In this reality he is an illegitimate son of the Crown Prosecutor, raised in Italy by the gang of highwaymen and contrabandists. Then right in this reality he later impersonates a viscount and before that becomes a protege of a mysterious man, known only as "The Count", who for some reason, bears an inexplicable resemblance to Regulus Black's older brother. Then this shard dims and another one comes into focus. In this universe he is a young poet in turn-of-the-century Ireland, a daydreamer, fully dedicated to art, and a lover of Shakespeare. An iconoclast and a confirmed atheist still in mourning for his mother and still morally disoriented by his own refusal to kneel and pray on her deathbed. And after all of this, just a sensitive soul condemned to the ineluctable modality of the visible.
Soon he loses count of time and of all these parallel worlds. In one of them he is a superstar, a prodigy composer during the times when rococo and harpsichords were all the rage. An extravagant genius and the 18th century shitposter who wrote church canon starting with "Kiss my ass". Then a girl, a princess with pyrokynetic magic in a country somewhat resembling a mix of medieval and World War Two era Japan. The heiress apparent and the magical ace, broken and gone completely insane barely aged fourteen. And many more. Faces, names, centuries and universes, it all just merges in his head into an eerie motley caleidoscope. And this caleidoscope keeps spinning and spinning. Barty is already feeling dizzy, or is it even Barty anymore?
Then snap. And the illusion melts away. He is in his Ravenclaw dorm. This night nothing has happened. And nothing will during this day. Until the next night. And there Merlin save his soul…
#marauders era#barty crouch jr#fanfic snippet#i may leave my easter eggs in the tags#but some of them are almost obvious#and yes sorry for mozart#but the lick me in the ass classical canon is just soo barty#heck i spilled some beans#also yes i get stephen dedalus is far too subdued and quiet for barty counterpart#okay he's kinda an odd one out but still#vibe is vibe and simon dedalus or paul dombey sr have such crouch sr vibe#count of monte cristo#ulysses#atla#dombey and son#mozart rock opera
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“Captain Gills,” blurted our Mr. Toots, one day all at once, as his manner was, “do you think you could think favourably of that proposition of mine, and give me the pleasure of your acquaintance?”
“Why, I tell you what it is, my lad,” replied the Captain, who had at length concluded on a course of action; “I've been turning that there over.”
“Captain Gills, it's very kind of you,” retorted Mr. Toots. “I'm much obliged to you. Upon my word and honour, Captain Gills, it would be a charity to give me the pleasure of your acquaintance. It really would.”
“You see, brother,” argued the Captain slowly, “I don't know you.”
“But you never can know me, Captain Gills,” replied Mr. Toots, steadfast to his point, “if you don't give me the pleasure of your acquaintance.”
The Captain seemed struck by the originality and power of this remark, and looked at Mr. Toots as if he thought there was a great deal more in him than he had expected.
— Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens)
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I decided to share some photos about Zelah Clarke, a former actress who is known for playing as a main character from "Jane Eyre" 1983 version and Susan Nipper from "Dombey and Son" for curiosity's sake. Since the information about her personal life is sketchy, the only clues available about her are the pictures and some videos scattered on the Internet. Here's some pictures of Zelah Clarke throughout 70s to 2010s.
The first one is from "The Duchess of Duke Street" which was released in 1976. Zelah became one of the cast guests there where she played as a teenage maid named Kate who has a dream to become a great cook. The 70s is where Zelah's acting career became stable. She played as Ceinwein Lloyd in "How Green Was My Valley" 1975 version, Martha Crachitt from "A Christmas Carol" 1977 version and Glenys from "A Woman's Place?" in 1978.
The second one is from "Jane Eyre" 1983 version where she played as a titular main character and possibly the most notable character she played on screen. She admitted in an interview that show caused the decline of her acting career but she also said she found her performance satisfying. After that, she returned to play as supporting character, had some acting stints on theater and later tried to work as a voice actress in BBC Radio.
The third one is probably one of the promo photos of a certain show sometime around 80s or 90s. Perhaps from the "Dodgem" TV show. Zelah later married and retired on acting in the early 90s to give focus in taking care of her own family. She continued to work as a voice actress.
As for the fourth picture, that's what Zelah looked like in this era. I found a picture with her on a social media few months ago. It came from a photo owned by one of her friends during a birthday party. It was taken around 2014. She was in early 60s when that picture was taken. Some of Zelah's friends commented that they find Zelah's hairstyle great. The original photo is quite blurry so I had to enhance and crop her face to see the close look of her.
I wonder how is she nowadays? It would be interesting to her about her past job as an actress.
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“DICKENS FELLOWSHIP CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY OF AUTHOR'S BIRTH,” Toronto Globe. February 10, 1933. Page 9.
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Characters from the immortal works of Charles Dickens came into being last night in Jarvis Street Collegiate, when the Dickens Fellowship, Toronto Branch, No. 32, celebrated the 121st anniversary of the author's birth with a special program. Some of the costumed folk are pictured above by The Globe photographer. At the left are Misses Jean and Betty Kirkness, as Two Ladies from Mrs. Jarley's Waxworks, with Mr. Micawber, ably characterized by A. J. Rostance. In the centre are L. R. Hopper, as Whistle from the Pickwick Papers, and Miss Vera Butcher, as a Shepherdess. At the right are a trio from Dombey and Son, H. M. Newton, as a Showman; little Miss Dorothy Martin, as Florence Dombey; and Mrs. Agnes Martin, as Nurse Pickard with Little Paul.
#toronto#collegiate institute#high school students#high school#charles dickens#dickens fellowship#fandom#pickwick papers#old curiosity shop#dombey and son#costume show#cosplay#great depression in canada
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Review - The Glenfiddich, Project XX, Experimental Series #2, 47%
Review – The Glenfiddich, Project XX, Experimental Series #2, 47%
“Evelyn, honey, I’m tired and I just want to pour myself a whisky, sit by the fireplace, and rest in the quiet.”
“But you look like you need some joy.”
“No, I look like I need some restful quiet. And a whisky.”
“And some joy. You need some joy.”
“Honey, I love you, but you need to go play somewhere else right now.”
“I’m just gonna go right over here.”
“And do what?”
“I’m going to get some of my…
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#@angels_portion#angelsportion#batman#dickens#dombey and son#experimental edition#fireplace#glenfiddich#joy#lutheran#noisy girl#piano#project xx#quiet#review#scotch#the cricket on the hearth#thoma#Whiskey#whisky
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Edith Dombey did nothing wrong.
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TB is thought to be relatively painless. Cancer is thought to be, invariably, excruciatingly painful. TB is thought to provide an easy death, while cancer is the spectacularly awful one. For over a hundred years TB remained the preferred, edifying way of killing off a character in a novel or play—a spiritualizing, refined disease. Nineteenth-century literature is stocked with descriptions of painless, unfrightened, beatific deaths from TB, particularly of young people: of Little Eva in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and of Dombey’s son Paul in Dombey and Son and of Smike in Nicholas Nickleby, where Dickens describes TB as the “dread disease” which “refines” death
of its grosser aspect…in which the struggle between soul and body is so gradual, quiet, and solemn, and the result so sure, that day by day, and grain by grain, the mortal part wastes and withers away, so that the spirit grows light and sanguine with its lightening load….
Contrast these sentimental, ennobling TB deaths with the slow, agonizing cancer deaths of Eugene Gant’s father in Thomas Wolfe’s Of Time and the River and of the sister in Bergman’s film Cries and Whispers. The dying tubercular is pictured as made more beautiful and more soulful; the person dying of cancer is portrayed as robbed of all capacities of self-transcendence, humiliated by fear and agony.
— Illness as Metaphor (Susan Sontag)
#susan sontag#illness as metaphor#history#medicine#biology#human biology#literature#film#movies#religion#christianity#feminism#misogyny#harriet beecher stowe#charles dickens#thomas wolfe#ingmar bergman#uncle tom's cabin#dombey and son#nicholas nickleby#of time and the river#cries and whispers#cancer#tuberculosis
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LibDems cancel Sutton selection meeting after 'complaints'
Campaigning in what ought to be a ‘winnable’ parliamentary seat has been dogged by controversies and challenges, reports BELLE MONT
With a General Election getting ever closer, the Liberal Democrats, already in complete disarray over who should be their candidate for the winnable, target seat of Sutton and Cheam, have been forced to cancel a selection meeting due to be held tonight after…
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#Conservative#John Sweeney#Liberal Democrats#London#Luisa Porritt#Luke Taylor#Paul Scully MP#Ruth Dombey#Sutton South#Tom Drummond#Tory#Trish Fivey
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日清の最強どん兵衛 海鮮ちゃんぽん味うどん。
Sezfood spicy soup udon noodles of NISSIN Dombei and Fried egg.
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After Great Expectations: Our Next Novel
Poll Time
We’re nearing the end of Great Expectations, with only just over a month to go, so it’s high time we decide what our next project will be. Make your voice heard at the poll here: https://forms.gle/tWD2F6y5AHnmRyZV8
The voting will close on July 4th 2023.
The options are as below, as these are the only novels which will keep the wait between novels to six months or under.
Dombey and Son (October 1856/2023 to April 1848/2025)
Little Dorrit (December 1855/2023 to June 1857/2025)
Martin Chuzzlewit (January 1843/2024 to July 1844/2025)
Barnaby Rudge (February 1841/2024 to November 1841/2024)
Read synopses for all of these in the poll. It may help your decision to take note of how long we will be waiting between novels, as well as how long the serialisation will last.
During the Hiatus
Depending on which novel wins the poll, there may be a long wait between books. Plans are currently being hatched, but to keep you sated during this time we will try to send out some of Dickens’ short stories.
If the wait covers the Christmas period, we may also send out one of his Christmas novellas, though perhaps not A Christmas Carol, as others may be organising this.
Go forth and vote!
Or, if you haven’t done so yet, sign up here!
#charles dickens#dickens daily#dickens#great expectations#tumblr book club#dombey and son#little dorrit#martin chuzzlewit#barnaby rudge#the email will be going out at midday (uk time) so you guys on tumblr are getting early access
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sol gills and captain cuttle are gay by the way
#i had this in my drafts from when i was reading dombey and son earlier this year#i should find a screen adaption of it i wonder how they handled the gay old men
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Thoughts on September, plus October plans! 🎃🍂🍂
It was inevitable, really, that September would be less of a bumper reading month than August was; after all, going back to work was always going to mean less hours for reading, and although I would like to read during all of my free time, that isn’t always practical! However, it has been a very satisfactory month of books, which some really wonderful titles and a pleasing range of authors and…
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Edith Dombey is the Dickens' most badass female character and it's a crime not more people know about her.
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