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secondsofpleasure · 4 months

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ups and downs / 2023–24

#philadelphia #philly #buildings #puddles #reflections #gaia #edmund bacon #how and nosm #personal melody

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we-joyless-few · 1 year

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2questions!!!!!!

1: who do you ship?

And 2 l: where can we read this fic? I am very interested

good questions!

i’ll answer 2 first! the fic “Lost Cat” is linked in the post, and it is solely on Google Docs for now. linked it in this post too tho, just in case :)

as for answering 1, i ship Ollie Starkey x Uncle Jack; Foggy Jack x Nick Lightbearer; Morrie Memento x Nick Lightbearer; Percy Hastings x Edmund MacMillan; Roger Bacon x James Maxwell(that one’s already canon tho-); Anton Verloc x White/Alabaster Bobby; aaaand others i can’t think of off the top of my head atm ^w^

obviously not all ships are alike, and i ship them in different ways for different reasons, but honestly? i’m just here to have fun :)

thank you all for all the asks today! it’s been fun answering them :3 have a lovely day! 🌈✨

#we happy few #from the parade #ask #anonymous #nick lightbearer #foggy jack #ollie starkey #uncle jack #jack worthing #roger bacon #james maxwell #percy hastings #edmund macmillan #anton verloc #bobby whf #white bobby whf #morrie memento #<-tagging them all in case anybody has a blacklist for any of the chars #ship post

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wisegardenbluebird · 1 year

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POLÍMATAS. UN FENOMENO EN EXTINCIÓN

El historiador cultural Peter Burke estudia los casos de 500 intelectuales polifacéticos Francisco R. Pastoriza “El zorro sabe muchas cosas pero el erizo sabe una cosa grande”. Isaiah Berlin Cuando se habla de los personajes que a lo largo de la Historia dominaban simultáneamente varias disciplinas, a todos nos viene a la mente una imagen, la de Leonardo da Vinci, y una época, el…

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hidden-poet · 12 days

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HEY BESTIEEEE 🩷 I CAN’T BELIEVE FOR ONCE I AM THIS EARLY 😂

CHAPTER 8 - LETS GOOOO

Of course he doesn’t trust her now 😂 our girl keeps trying to run away!

Coryo being worried about Edmund taking her away is so cute 🥹

I love how she tries to soften him with affection 🩷 he’s so baby boy 😭

Awe I love Tigris! She’s literally the sweetest and so blind to her cousins depraved nature 😂

“You’ll be home soon.” , “We’ll be home soon” - okay daddy 🙄

You lean down and wrap your arms around his shoulders, resting your face against his neck. - GOD HIS NECK PROBABLY SMELLS SO FUCKING GOOD 😫

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DID HE JUST REFER TO HER AS HIS WIFE? 😳

District women weren’t wives. They were barely considered human. - I mean… he clearly has a thing for District women so 😂

I love it when he tends to her with the cold wet rag 😭

At least he was nice enough to make sure she was clean and comfortable before he cuffed her to the bed 😂

“Just in case, Edmund comes back.” - My insecure boy 🥹

“I left you one hand so you can read. I don’t have to.” - Okay chill daddy chill 🙇‍♀️ I mean I rather you cuff me to the bed for other things 😈

“You’ve had a big day. Try and rest. I’ll be home soon.” - 😑😑😑

Girly should be daydreaming of BLONDE haired babies 😂 HER AND CORYOS BABIES, NOT EDMUNDS (even tho I love Edmund lol)

I love how he’s sorry about waking her and I’m like bro… you literally cuffed her to the bed, who tf can sleep through that? 😂

“I was thinking I hope we have a boy first. Then two girls, then another boy.” - WOAH LETS JUST CHILL FOR A SEC PLEASE 😂 It would be my dying wish to get knocked by you but please take it easy daddy… let’s not rush this and just focus on the one 😂 one at a time boo… one at a time 😭

“What else should I have called you? We sleep together, eat together, wake together. We look after each other. The only thing missing is an official title but as soon as we get back to the Capitol, we’ll fix that.” - Yeah... all by force 😂 And baby boy, please don’t forget about the not fucking eachother yet part too…

God my anxiety was so up during the key sequence like my god when he suddenly came up behind her and caught her by the hair 😳

Girl… a hangover cure? Really? He’s not an idiot 😂 Then again, I would probably say anything too in that moment of fear so… and of course he’s gonna cuff you the bed again lmfao

“If I had listened to you, I would have left the door opened. You spoiled, deceiving, little bitch.” - DAMN DADDY 😳 call me a spoiled, deceiving, little bitch again 😈

Oh shit he’s really mad today! The silent treatment. He didn’t even HOLD her hand as they walked out together 😳

I love how he asks her what her dads hangover cure is and he just slams all the cupboards saying it’s all there 😂

Bro just took all the bacon for himself and threw the rest out and slid over the empty plate… like damn that was so cold 😂

“He’s probably hiding with your mother in what’s left of the forest. Don’t worry. We’ll find him and bring your mother home.” - 😳*nervous laughter* we love a good threat right?! 😳

The ‘good’ comment from the both of them had me on the floor 😂

When she begs him not to throw the boy in jail and he gives her a warning look 😬 well he’s officially back to hitting her again hard to the floor… but now in public… wow he’s really really pissed off isn’t he? 😂 The men not doing anything and backing away from her because they’re so scared of Coryo 😑 He just hits her, then harshly takes her arm and pulls her back in one quick motion 😂 crazy boy 😈

“You embarrassed me. Vongurt already thinks I can’t control my Peacekeepers, now he thinks I can’t control my women as well.” - YOUR WOMEN? 😈

“Look at me when I am talking to you.” - yes, daddy sir 🫡

“Ravinstill is expected to die shortly. This behavior of yours cannot be brought back to the Capitol.” - And what are you gonna do about it? Huh? 😈

“You think a Peacekeeper would get the same punishment as a District? No. You would have been hanged. Yet another reason to be loyal to me. I’ve saved you.” - NAH… NOW THIS MOTHERFUCKER 😑but… gladly 😫

Her begging him and crying to not be mad at her so he’ll be in a good mood for her grand escape plan is the cutest 😂

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This girl is so smart with the washing machine plan 👏

Aweee he’s so excited to finally talk to Grandma’am and Tigris and introduce his girl to them… my heart 🥹🩷

Love how he pulls her down so she sits on his lap as he’s talking to his family 😫

And I love how sassy Grandma’am is 😂 and especially calling her ‘girl’

“You must be grateful he is sending you back to the Capitol. Don’t ruin it like the last one.” - I’m assuming this is about Lucy Gray 😂

He tugs you back down causing you to fall into him. Out of the corner of your eye, you can see Tigris almost cringe. - Does she know about her cousin's depraved nature? 👀

You know. Since she attempted to run away from him a few times now… you would think he wouldn’t even let her go do the laundry alone, especially for five minutes. Baby boy was so stupid here 😭

You smile at him as you pull away. It was too easy, You had won. - Yeah! Too easy 😂 omg I feel so bad that she just left him 😭 he was so excited too… and I keep forgetting that this our captor but I don’t care 🫠

Her reuniting with her mom had me emotional 🥹 that was so beautiful 🩷

You were home. You were safe. - Yeah… sure… 😂

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Awe the way he tries to convince himself that she didn’t leave him and she just felt sick and went back to the apartment to sleep it off 🥹

Okay let’s be real here. He is obviously going to find her (which I hope to god he does because she belongs to him 😈 like how my pussy soul belongs to him 🫠)

He will not stop until he finds her and once he does… good luck girly. Good luck to you, good luck to your mom, your brother, Edmund, Edmund’s family… and anyone else up in the mountains… Like I am so terrified for all of them rn because it’s not going to end well. This was definitely her last straw, no sweet talking is going to work on him this time…

Something tells me the next chapter is going to be a little time skip… WE SHALL SEE!

Bestieeee this chapter was so anxiety inducing and I LOVED EVERY BIT OF IT 🩷 I am so freakin’ excited to see what happens in chapter 9 because it’s gonna be CRAZY I just know it!

BESTIE LOOK AT YOU GO!

so glad you liked this chapter 😭😭 thank you for taking the time out to write this!

I love when you call the reader “our girl” because it’s so true! She’s our girl!

I’ll see you in the next chapter, bestie ❤️

#coriolanus snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #dark!coriolanus snow #coriolanus x reader #tom blyth #dead dove do not eat

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nordleuchten · 3 months

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The Bicentennial: The Invitation or The Tour that almost never was

As some of you surely are aware, the Bicentennial of La Fayette’s Tour through America in 1824/25 is fast approaching and many organizations/institutes, especially in America, have already made some form of content regarding this event.

Let us have a look at one document that stands at the start of this event – the invitation La Fayette received from the then President James Monroe on February 7, 1824.

‘Monroe and Lafayette’ (no date) Highland. Available at: https://highland.org/teacher-resources/monroe-and-lafayette/ (02/21/2024).

Everybody who has ever worked with Monroe’s papers will tell you, that his handwriting was often not, well, legible. This is completely off-topic, but one of my favourite quotes about Monroe is this statement by Edmund Bacon, one of Thomas Jeffersons overseer’s. He wrote that:

Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison both wrote a plain, beautiful hand, but you could write better with your toes than Mr. Monroe wrote.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Look at Penmanship (2012) Monticello. Available at: https://www.monticello.org/research-education/blog/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-a-look-at-penmanship/ (02/21/2024).

(And let us not forget that Andrea Gray wrote in the same blog post, concerning Monroe’s penmanship: “Any idea who penned that abomination?”)

I think it is not quite that bad, but Monroes handwriting is also not the subject at hand, so back to the letter. Luckily, there is a transcript by Hampton Kennedy for James Monroe’s Highland:

[Transcription Page 1] Washington Feby [February]. 7th. 1824 My dear sir I wrote you about a fortnight since, a letter which I forwarded to New York to the care of Mr Brown, in which I intimated my desire in at liberty case you felt yourself ^ to visit the Ustates [United States], to send a frigate to some port of France, to receive and bring you over. Since then Congrefs [Congress] have pafsed [passed] a re- -solution, to that effect, expression of the affectionate attachment of the whole nation to you, and of their de- -sire to see you again among us. The period at which you may deem it proper, to accept this invitation, is life to yourself, but you may be afsured [assured], that when- -ever it may comport with your views, of which you will have the goodnefs [goodness] to advise me, a public ship shall be immediately orderd [ordered] to the port which you may designate, to carry you to the country of your adoption in early life, + [and] which has always che- -rished the most grateful recollection of your im- -portant services. I send you here with a copy of the resolution, and have only to add, the [Transcription Page 2] afsurance [assurance] of my high consideration and affectionate regard. James Monro

‘Monroe and Lafayette’ (no date) Highland. Available at: https://highland.org/teacher-resources/monroe-and-lafayette/ (02/21/2024).

And as easy as inviting La Fayette in the end was for Monroe, writing a short and simple letter, the process leading up to Monroe writing this letter was somewhat debated. Allow me to take you back to the House of Representatives on January 12, 1824, when the notion to invite La Fayette was first introduced.

Annals of Congress, 18th Congress, 1st session, I, p. 988.

The bill took its usual route from there and on the next day, the resolution was read again and was voted on – and I know what you are all thinking. Of course the resolution passed! We all know that the Tour took place and America and Americans had such high esteem for La Fayette. They had already supported and honoured him in so many ways, most notable during the French Revolution, his imprisonment and the financial struggles following his release. Well, no. The resolution was negatived by 80 to 74 – a small margin granted, but a defeat, nonetheless.

Annals of Congress, 18th Congress, 1st session, I, p. 1004-1005

Around the same time La Fayette lost his reelection for his seat in the Chambre des Députés – and now even America did not want him? Well, it was not quite that dramatic for our Marquis.

First of all, the wording of the notion was not all it could be, and a committee was there for formed to change the way the bill was phrased. Furthermore, and in contrast to his earlier visits to America, La Fayette had long outgrown “his charming, rich boy-general”-image. He had become a serious politician and a household name in Europe and European politics. His values and agendas were well known. Revolutions were spreading all throughout the western world and at that time the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) was raging and in South America many regions declared independence and formed Republics. More generally speaking, the 1820s were a time of Revolution and La Fayette, as a general rule of thumb, always sided with the revolutionaries, the ones that fought for freedom (however you want to define the term) and independence. He loudly advocated for Greek and South America, he gave money to Italian and Spanish exiles. In short, he was advocating for Revolution and not everyone liked that. In 1815, after Napoléon Bonaparte’s final defeated the so-called Holly Alliance (Austrian Empire and the Kingdoms of Russia and Prussia) was formed with the expressed aim to keep liberalism in check. In America itself there were varying opinions on how to respond to what was happening and these subjects became even more prominent with Monroe’s presidency and his Monroe-Doctrine. Add to this La Fayette’s dislike for the principles of slavery. Slavery was in the 1820’s not quite such a hot topic as it would later be, but it was still a touchy subject and La Fayette’s opinions, as with everything else, were well known. And, as Mr. William of North Carolina remarked, was the Congress sure that La Fayette even wanted to come?

With all that in mind, the resolution was amended and reintroduced on January 20, 1824:

Annals of Congress, 18th Congress, 1st session, I, p. 1101-1104.

After the new text and a letter by La Fayette expressing his desire to return to America once more before his death were read, the resolution was unanimously agreed upon. There is no hard evidence, but some contextual evidence suggesting that Monroe really urged Congress to pass the resolution.

The problem therefor was not with La Fayette as a person. There still was the deep connection between a man and a people who both owned each other a great deal. The visit was a personal affair that had also a strong political connection, both on a national and an international level. It was a “yes” from America to La Fayette and his believes and it also was a “yes” from La Fayette to America and American politics. And while everything went down just fine, there was still the question regarding the implications this invitation and visit had. Monroe, a personal friend of the La Fayette’s, who had helped Adrienne a great deal during the French Revolution and who supposedly had urged Congress to pass said resolution, wrote, somewhat anxiously, to Thomas Jefferson on October 18, 1824:

His mov’ment, since his arrival in the UStates, has been well directed. Had he visited this city in the first instance, the compromitment of the govt, with the holy alliance, would have been much greater, than by going directly to our fellow citizens, & from them to the govt. By this course, the nation has the credit. The holy alliance, & all the govts of Europe, must therefore look to us, as an united people, devoted to the principles of our revolution & of free republican government.

“To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 18 October 1824,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-4634. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. It is not an authoritative final version.] (02/21/2024).

And that is, in summary, how La Fayette’s visit to America in 1824/1825 came to be.

#to be fair the title is a tad dramatic #marquis de lafayette #la fayette #french history #american history #history #european history #thomas jefferson #james monroe #letters #founders online #1824 #politics #lafayette #the bicentannial #the tour of 1824/1825

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soraeia · 5 months

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[The morning after.]

"Just what were you thinking?"

Nero clicked his tongue when the character on the little magical box Edmund made for him fell off another cliff made of glitchy lights and dots.

"You can stop whisper-yelling at me, you know I'm not paying attention."

"Nero, you know how dangerous it is to overuse your magic. Your nose was bleeding. And worse, the Tengmen Emperor saw---" Riliane straightened immediately upon hearing a knock at the door, her shoulder growing lax again when she realized it was only Avelan.

The eldest of the three siblings glance between the both of them, before closing the infirmary door behind him. A finger waving behind his back to silence whatever conversation managed to leak through to unwelcome ears.

"I brought breakfast."

"Is it bacon on pizza?"

"I said breakfast, not garbage."

"Psh..." Nero rolled his eyes and started his game over. "Alli would have brought me whatever I wanted until I felt better."

"Well, thanks to Allisae, we're in shit deeper than the ocean."

"Augh...Shut up, Riliane."

"Allisae isn't here." Avelan snapped. "Everyone is talking about it now. How she ran away with Tahariel..."

"Yes, Nero actually helped with that."

"And I regret nothing."

"What?" Avelan' looked at his brother's gaze snapped to his brother. "You helped them get away--"

"Do you really think she was better off here?"

".....At least here, she's safe."

"Safe from what, exactly? Because I've never seen you lift a finger to make her feel safe from anything here."

Riliane flinches as the knife clatters loudly onto the plate when Avelan drops it. Shrinking into the background as he approaches Nero's bedside. "Don't be the pot calling the kettle black."

"Yeah, fine. I'm just as guilty. I didn’t do anything. But you?"

"You made bullshit promises about having her back. Yet where were you when dad sold her to a rapist. Where were you when he threw her in that tower? When he sealed her magic away? Or every time Tristan or Lilithain insulted her, hit her, or blamed her for things that weren’t her fault?" Nero set down his game box, pupils thinning into slits against the silver of his eyes.

"You just watched. All you’ve done was bite your tongue, swallow it down, and look the other way. Yeah, I let her down, too. But at least I didn't lie to her face a hundred times over. I didn't tell her that she was important just to alleviate my own guilt, then turned around and make her into some cautionary tale to scare my kids into being spineless pawns. So shut up."

"The thing is, Lydia is the same as Alli. Cari, too. They are stubborn. They are going to do what they want no matter what, and our father will only tolerate that so much. The question is, when one or maybe even both of them become the next family disappointments, are you going to let them down too? Or will you finally draw a damn line."

#{ gilded cages } imperial au #{ Nero } ic #{ Avelan } ic #{ Riliane } ic

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ascendent · 5 months

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♥︎ “get to know you” tag game ♥︎

(thank you @saints-who-never-existed for the tag!)

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last song: “evil head” by early girl

currently watching: lake placid, as in i am composing this while the ending of lake placid plays on the tv. if you haven’t seen lake placid it has the dubious honor of featuring BOTH the american matt berry AND brendan gleeson attempting the worst american accent known to man. it’s a terrible film. please watch it

currently consuming: homemade chicken-bacon-andouille gumbo

three ships: terror, erebus, edmund fitzgerald 🤪 ah no i kid. does jopsolittle count as three-in-one

favorite color: pine green

first ship: wolfstar if you can believe it

last movie: caught the boy and the heron in theaters this past sunday!

currently working on: cross my heart and hope to die i swear i’ll have another chapter of the house of leaves crossover up by commentfest………

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anyone who wants to can steal!! but @catchaspark @marshmallowtuna @hot2go @crabwizards you get tags for free

#don't tell me your life story

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coffee-n-bagels-comic-universe · 5 months

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Self-Indulgent Series December: Granite Hills

It's December, and that means I get to be self-indulgent and give myself gifts, mainly the gift of looking at actors I like.

I give you my series of self-indulgence, Granite Hills (1990):

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Set in 1980 in the fictional town of Mudslide, Wisconsin, mainly at the Granite Hills university. This cast will be a mix of actors who would and wouldn't be available at the time.

The Show's Cast Includes:

Alfred Molina as Angel Ramon Vega [Age: 24]

Anjelica Huston as Sandy Cherry Lawson [Age: 26]

Billy Connolly as Professor Darwin Derryl Rigby [Age: 40]

Billy Crystal as Jethro Mephisto Butcher [Age: 25]

Brendan Fraser as Dallas Nathaniel Gray [Age: 23]

Carrie Fisher as Veronica Beverly Chambers [Age: 21]

Cary Elwes as Easton Markos White [Age: 27]

Chris Barrie as Douglass Wilfred Bernard [Age: 20]

Christina Applegate as Storm Hekla Jóhannsson [Age: 18]

Christopher Walken as Professor Karl Cai Lowell [Age: 40]

Craig Charles as Chuck Vance Sheppard [Age: 21]

Dan Aykroyd as Cesar Clay Leon [Age: 23]

Danny John-Jules as Quentin Kingston Hollister [Age: 21]

Daryl Hannah as Bernadette Daphne Jordan [Age: 24]

Diane Lane as Saffron Elouise Mason [Age: 19]

Fran Drescher as Monique Joanne Curtis [Age: 22]

Geena Davis as Erin Kermit Cantrell [Age: 28]

Gunnar Hansen as Thor Hjörtur Jóhannsson [Age: 48]

Harold Ramis as Edmund Morgan Blackburn [Age: 29]

Jack Black as Odin Hrafn Jóhannsson [Age: 21]

Jeff Bridges as Professor Kennedy Troy Gill [Age: 40]

Joe Pesci as Professor Jeremiah Emmit Jekyll [Age: 40]

John Belushi as Julian Noel Hood [Age: 25]

John Candy as Dale Randall Newman [Age: 26]

John Cusack as Andrew Simon Garfield [Age: 23]

John Goodman as Cyrus Lars Nielsen [Age: 27]

John Leguizamo as Alijah Mrlon Cross [Age: 29}

Judd Nelson as Colton Kenelm Coy [Age: 19]

Katey Sagal as Ramona Adrienne Dunn [Age: 25]

Kevin Bacon as Brad Nathan Hardy [Age: 25]

Kiefer Sutherland as Trenton Homer Abbey [Age: 21]

Luis Guzmán as Jaxxon Garrett Flores [Age: 29]

Mandy Patinkin as Elishua Saul Zebedaios [Age: 28]

Matt Dillon as Dennis Waylon Marley [Age: 20]

Matthew Lillard as Alexander Buddy Jones [Age: 19]

Oliver Platt as Ruben Manuel Valdez [Age: 22]

O'Shea Jackson (Sr.) as Tyrese Jordan Maxwell [Age: 18]

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Parris Hayes Grant [Age: 19]

Raul Julia as Professor Marcel Gomez Agua [Age: 40]

Ray Winstone as Holden Montgomery Lynn [Age: 27]

River Phoenix as Kent Horace Woodward [Age: 18]

Robin Williams as Jaycee Aramis Ellis [Age: 26]

Sean Young as Maxine Jade Upton [Age: 26]

Stanley Tucci as Luke Robin Flynn [Age: 22]

Steve Buscemi as Hugh Chester Sweeney [Age: 25]

Tom Hanks as Mark Everett Shaw [Age: 20]

Tony Shalhoub as Orlando Jaime Guerrero [Age: 25]

Val Kilmer as Earl Blue Dior [Age: 29]

Wayne Knight as Osborne Finnegan Jarvis [Age: 28]

William Baldwin as Theodore Joshua Ball [Age: 20]

Willem Dafoe as Terry Roosevelt Jepson [Age: 27]

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alexlacquemanne · 5 months

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Novembre MMXXIII "November Who"

Films

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) de Gordon Flemyng avec Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Barrie Ingham, Michael Coles et Yvonne Antrobus

Ripoux contre ripoux (1990) de Claude Zidi avec Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Grace de Capitani, Line Renaud, Michel Aumont et Jean Benguigui

Coup de foudre et Conséquences (Fools Rush In) (1997) d'Andy Tennant avec Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Carlos Gómez, Tomás Milián, Siobhan Fallon et John Bennett Perry

Au-delà des grilles (Le mura di Malapaga) (1949) de René Clément avec Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Véra Talchi, Andrea Checchi, Robert Dalban et Ave Ninchi

Clemenceau, la force d'aimer (2023) de Lorraine Lévy avec Pierre Arditi, Emilie Caen, Elizabeth Bourgine, François Marthouret, Serge Riaboukine et Arthur Choisnet

L'Argent des autres (1978) de Christian de Chalonge avec Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Laura et Michèle Kornbluh, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Gérard Séty et Jean Leuvrais

Mort sur la piste (2023) de Philippe Dajoux avec Jason Priestley, Eléonore Bernheim, Olivier Marchal, Roby Schinasi, Adèle Galloy et Olivia Courbis

Sylvia Scarlett (1935) de George Cukor avec Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, Nathalie Paley et Dennie Moore

La Cité sous la mer (City Beneath the Sea) (1953) de Budd Boetticher avec Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball, George Mathews, Karel Stepanek, Hilo Hattie et Lalo Rios

Second Tour (2023) de Albert Dupontel avec Cécile de France, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié, Scali Delpeyrat, Jackie Berroyer, Christiane Millet, Philippe Uchan, Renaud Van Ruymbeke et Bouli Lanners

Seuls les anges ont des ailes (Only Angels Have Wings) (1939) de Howard Hawks avec Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Sig Ruman et Victor Kilian

Un pyjama pour deux (Lover Come Back) (1961) de Delbert Mann avec Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Jack Kruschen, Ann B. Davis : Millie et Joe Flynn

Le Couteau dans la plaie (1962) d'Anatole Litvak avec Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Régine, Yolande Turner, Tommy Norden, Mathilde Casadesus et Elina Labourdette

Garde à vue (1981) de Claude Miller avec Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand, Pierre Maguelon, Jean-Claude Penchenat et Elsa Lunghini

La Sanction (The Eiger Sanction) (1975) de Clint Eastwood avec Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Brühl, Thayer David, Reiner Schöne, Michael Grimm et Jean-Pierre Bernard

Deux Hommes dans la ville (1973) de José Giovanni avec Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Ilaria Occhini, Guido Alberti, Cécile Vassort, Bernard Giraudeau et Christine Fabréga

JFK (1991) de Oliver Stone avec Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Laurie Metcalf, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Rooker, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci et Jack Lemmon

Le Juge et l'Assassin (1976) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Michel Galabru, Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renée Faure, Cécile Vassort, Yves Robert, Jean-Roger Caussimon et Jean Bretonnière

Le Fugitif (The Fugitive) (1993) d'Andrew Davis avec Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, Joe Pantoliano, Andreas Katsulas, Jeroen Krabbé et L. Scott Caldwell

Un singe en hiver (1962) de Henri Verneuil avec Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon : Suzanne Quentin, Gabrielle Dorziat, Hella Petri, Marcelle Arnold, Charles Bouillaud et Anne-Marie Coffinet

Doctor Who (1996) de Geoffrey Sax avec Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook, Yee Jee Tso, John Novak et Michael David Simms

Séries

Doctor Who Saison 19, 20 Series 1, 3, 11, 5, 4

Castrovalva - Four to Doomsday - Kinda - The Visitation - Black Orchid - Rose - La fin du monde - Des morts inassouvis - Earthshock - Time-Flight - Destination: Skaro - Ark of Infinity - La Famille de sang - Smith, la Montre et le Docteur - The Day of the Doctor - Snakedance - The Star Beast - The Ghost Monument - Le Colocataire - La Chute de Pompéi

Top Gear Saison 20

A l'abordage ! - Ils ont roulé sur l'eau - Mission Camping-Car

Brokenwood Saison 8, 5, 4, 3

Quatre incendies et un enterrement - Dix petits héritiers - Tu ne tueras point - Un Noël rouge

Affaires sensibles

Les étonnantes enquêtes du bureau des ovnis - 1975, l'année de la femme - Caravelle Ajaccio-Nice : un crash secret Défense ?

Coffre à Catch

#140 : "Elles répondaient au nom de Bella" (avec Max MK) - #141 : Qui sera le futur Mr Money in the Bank? - #142 : Y'a R les amis!! Y'a R ! - #143 : Tiffany prend les rennes et Finlay prend la Trique !

Happy Days Saison 4

De l'huile sur le feu - Remise des prix : première partie - Remise des prix : deuxième partie - Le Jour J est arrivé - Les Mauvais Garçons - Howard inventeur - Le Chien de Fonzie - Ralphy a de sacrés ennuis - Le Baptême de Fonzie

Downton Abbey Saison 4

La Succession - Lettre posthume - Faste et Renaissance - Le Prétendant - Rien n'est terminé - Une vraie surprise - Dernières Festivités

Professeur T Saison 1

Anatomie d'un souvenir - Un poisson nommé Walter - Règles d'or - L'amour d'une mère - Sophie sait tout - Le fils dévoué

The Crown Saison 6

Persona Non Grata - Deux photographies - Dis-Moi Oui - Onde de choc

Spectacles

Prom 10 : Doctor Who at the Proms (2010) avec Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill et Matt Smith

Taratata 30 (2023)

La symphonie des jeux vidéos aux Chorégies d'Orange (2021)

Doctor Who at the Proms (2013) avec Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey, Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Carole Ann Ford, Peter Davison, Nicholas Briggs, Ben Foster et Murray Gold

Le vison voyageur (2023) de John Chapman et Ray Cooney avec Michel Fau, Sébastien Castro, Armelle, Nicole Calfan, Anne-Sophie Germanaz, Alexis Driollet, Delphine Beaulieu et Arnaud Pfeiffer

Doctor Who: A Celebration (2006) avec David Tennant, Murray Gold et Russell T Davies

Drôle De Genre (2023) de Jade-Rose Parker avec Victoria Abril, Lionnel Astier, Axel Huet et Jade-Rose Parker

Prom 13: Doctor Who Prom (2008) avec Freema Agyeman, Noel Clarke, Camille Coduri et Catherine Tate

Livres

Doctor Who le dixième docteur, Tome 1 : Les révolutions de la terreur de Elena Casagrande, Nick Abadzis et Arianna Florean

Les contes du vortex de Pepperpot x Friends (Pauline Cadart Serizel, Marie Valerio, Rémi Germain, Robin Brou, Manon Segur, Julien Cadart Serizel, Flavia Valerio et Gökan Martin)

Le docteur Who entre en scène de Terrance Dicks

Doctor Who le dixième docteur, Tome 3 : Les fontaines de l'éternité de Elena Casagrande et Nick Abadzis

Les Daleks de David Whitaker

#mediatheque #novembre23 #november who

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Court Circular | 17th March 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King was represented by Mr Edmund Bailey (His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Gwynedd) at the Funeral of Sir Meuric Rees (formerly Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Gwynedd) which was held at Ebenezer Chapel, Tywyn, Gwynedd, this afternoon.

Kensington Palace

The Prince of Wales and The Princess of Wales, Colonel, this morning presented Shamrock to the Irish Guards at Mons Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire, on the occasion of St Patrick’s Day.

St James’s Palace

The Duke of Edinburgh, President, Sport and Recreation Alliance, this morning visited Heatham House Youth Centre, Whitton Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, and was received by Mrs Rosemary Prescott (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London). His Royal Highness, President, Sport and Recreation Alliance, this afternoon presented the Community Sport and Recreation Alliance Awards at Twickenham Stadium.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, this afternoon attended the Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (Mr Edward Gillespie).

Appendix to Court Circular

The King has been pleased to appoint the following as Lords in Waiting: the Lord Luce KG, the Lord Janvrin and the Marquess of Cholmondeley. His Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the following as Extra Equerries: Vice Admiral Sir Tom Blackburn, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Andrew Ford, Commodore Anthony Morrow, Admiral Sir George Zambellas, Lieutenant General Sir Alistair Irwin, Lieutenant General Sir John Lorimer, Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Johnstone-Burt, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alexander Matheson of Matheson, Bt, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Vernon, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Commander Richard Aylard, Major General Arthur Denaro, Sir Stephen Lamport and Mr Ashe Windham. The appointments to date from 17th March, 2023.

#court circular #princess anne #princess royal #tim laurence #king charles iii #prince william prince of wales #catherine princess of wales #prince edward duke of edinburgh #british royal family

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PART 11

I’m dying

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Sarah Marie: Can I ask you for a favor?

Phillip: I would literally die for you, but continue.

Sarah Marie: We need to talk about you starting sentences that way.

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Seymour : Good night.

Paloma: Sleep tight.

Amira: Don't let the bedbugs crawl up to your ear and whisper threatening things that make you question yourself.

Emmy: Great, now Paloma's crying.

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Lemon: Why do you hang out with me?

Arabella: You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me!

Lemon: …

Lemon: I feel a bit sorry for you.

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Marcus: What happened?!

Leo: Do you want the long version or the short version?

Marcus: Sh-short??

Leo: Shit's fucked.

Marcus: Okay, long.

Leo: Shit's very fucked.

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Carrie, grinning: Before you were what?

Isabella: Before I was-

Carrie: What?

Isabella: Before I was inter-

Carrie: Before you were interrupted?

Isabella: Cut me off one more time and I swear I'll-

Carrie: What?

Isabella: *makes frustrated sound*

Arabella, nervously: Stop that. Before they hurt you.

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Carrie: Hey, wanna hear a funny joke?

Phillip: I only like dark humor.

Carrie, turning the lights off: What do you call a fake noodle?

Phillip:

Carrie: An IMPASTA!

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Huì yǐng: Truth or dare?

Sarah Marie: Dare.

Huì yǐng: I dare you to kiss the hottest person in the room.

Sarah Marie: Hey Tanya?

Tanya, blushing: Yeah?

Sarah Marie: Can you move? I'm trying to get to Arabella.

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Evi walking into the kitchen and seeing all their limes peeled: Wren, I love you but, what the h-e-double FUCK.

Wren, sipping coffee happily: I love you too :)

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*At a dinner party, the guests converse while the host is away*

Gail: So how do you know the host?

Marcus: They were a former vegan, and they bought milk.

Tanya: That BITCH!

Paloma: I pulled them over for money laundering.

Echo: I'm chaperoning their dinner party.

Isabella: They stole a baconator!

Tanya: That BITCH!

Gail: I tanked the store they were managing and they convinced me to quit from one of the only jobs I've ever had. Now I'm living off of unemployment checks and fear!

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Leo: I am your king, long may I reign!

Lemon: Well I didn’t vote for you!

Leo: You don’t vote for kings.

Lemon: Well how’d you become king then?

Leo: Alex of the Lake, their arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Leo, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.

Lemon: Listen. Strange people lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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Lemon: Please pray for Edmund.

Isabelle: What happened to them?

Lemon: Nothing, they’re just very stupid.

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Tanya: Dearly Beloved, we are here today to remember Juno, taken from us in the prime of life; when they were crushed by a runaway semi, driven by the Incredible Hulk.

Juno: Aww, you knew my favorite cause of death.

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Lemon: Remember what I told you.

Levi: Don’t be a cunt.

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Isabella: Oh god, they texted you ‘hi.’’ punctuation only means one thing, Seymour . They're mad at you.

Seymour : No, it's Evi. They're just being gramatically correct!

*meanwhile*

Evi: And then I used a period so they'd know that I'm mad at them.

Lemon: A period doesn't say 'I'm mad', it says 'you're dead to me'.

Evi: I stand by my choice.

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Shapeshifter: *transforms to look like Lemon*

Lemon: Okay, are you like BLIND? You look nothing like me. First off, I'm way taller. Secondly, I DO NOT look so sleep deprived and lastly, if you could drag comb through that hair you're like a 7 on a good day and I've been told I'm a constant 10.

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Robin: Are you a cuddler?

Julia: I'm a machine of death and destruction.

Robin:

Julia: ...Yeah, I'm a cuddler.

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Julia: Reverse tooth fairy where you leave money under your pillow and the tooth fairy comes and leaves you a bunch of teeth.

Edmund: Why?

Julia, shaking a bag of teeth: Just because.

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Milo: Levi isn’t answering my messages.

Marcus: Allow me.

Milo: I tried 6 times, what makes you thi-

Levi: *replying to message* Hello.

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Leo: Fight me!

Wren, standing behind them and holding a knife: *mouths* Do not.

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Diego: I fell—

Carrie: From heaven?

Diego: No, I literally fell—

Carrie: In love with me the moment you saw me?

Diego: MY ARM IS BROKEN!

Carrie: Okay, but do you think I'm pretty? Be honest.

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Lemon: I'm so tired of this life. I want to be a roomba. I want knives taped to me. And I want to be set loose.

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Lucille: They... well, I wouldn't call it inheritance per se. What do you call it when you kill someone and get their stuff?

Aria: Um, murder???

Amira: Adventuring!

Isaac: Tuesday.

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Calypso: *watching their house burn down*

Calypso:

Calypso: *starts filming* Waddup, guys, welcome to my vlog, today's topic: how to get away with accidentally committing arson because you forgot Spaghetti O's cans are metal and thus non-microwavable! Step one: deny everything.

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Lemon: Phillip is not allowed to decide which one of us is the chosen one.

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#rtc #rtc oc #rtc sona #choirsona #choirsona incorrect quotes #i feel like some many of these would work for any of them

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Cumpleaños 🎂

Hoy cumple 65 años el gran Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon1 (Filadelfia, Pensilvania, 8 de julio de 1958) es un actor de cine, teatro y televisión estadounidense, ocasionalmente bailarín y coreógrafo, notable por sus papeles en National "Lampoon's Animal House", "Footloose", "Mystic River", "Diner", "The Woodsman", "Friday the 13th", "Hollow Man", "Tremors", "X-Men: primera generación" y "Frost/Nixon".

Bacon ha ganado un Premio Globo de Oro y dos Premios del Sindicato de Actores, estuvo nominado para un Premio Emmy, y fue nombrado por "The Guardian" como uno de los mejores actores que no ha recibido una nominación al Premio Óscar.

En 2003, Bacon recibió una estrella en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood.

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Bacon, último de seis hijos, nació y fue criado en una familia muy unida, en Filadelfia, Pensilvania. Su madre, Ruth Hilda (de soltera Holees; 1916-1991), enseñaba en una escuela primaria y era una activista liberal, y su padre, Edmund Norwood Bacon (2 de mayo de 1910 - 14 de octubre de 2005), fue un arquitecto muy respetado y un prominente Filadelfiano que había sido Director Ejecutivo de la Comisión de Planificación de la Ciudad de Filadelfia por muchos años. Uno de sus hermanos es el músico Michael Bacon. A los 16 años, en 1974, Bacon ganó una beca financiada y asistió a la Escuela de Gobernadores de Arte en Pensilvania, en la Universidad Bucknell.

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Actor muy versátil y dotado tanto para la comedia como el drama, el éxito le llegó en la película dirigida por Herbert Ross, en la que Bacon interpreta a un joven rebelde y apasionado por el baile en "Footloose" (1984). También destacó en los filmes posteriores, como "Quicksilver" (1986), "White Water Summer" (1987), "She's Having a Baby" (1988), "Criminal Law" (1988) y "The Big Picture" (1989).

Al año siguiente compartió cartel con Julia Roberts y Kiefer Sutherland en la película "Flatliners" (1990), dirigido por Joel Schumacher, en la que un grupo de jóvenes residentes juega con la muerte gracias a sus avanzados conocimientos médicos y científicos. Tras esta colaboración intervino en el ciclo televisivo The Saturday Night Live y Oliver Stone lo convocó para un pequeño papel de prostituto gay en el filme "JFK" (1991), que sería un gran éxito de taquilla y buenos comentarios por parte de la crítica, recibiendo ocho nominaciones a los Óscar.

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Después actuaría en películas como "A Few Good Men" (1992), con Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson y Demi Moore cosechando de nuevo un gran éxito en taquilla, además la cinta recibió cuatro nominaciones a los Óscar

Bacon está casado con la actriz Kyra Sedgwick desde el 4 de septiembre de 1988; se conocieron en el set de "Lemon Sky".

Bacon y Sedgwick han protagonizado en "Pyrates", "Murder in the First", "The Woodsman" y "Loverboy". Tienen dos hijos, Travis Bacon Sedgwick (nacido el 23 de junio de 1989 en Los Ángeles, California) y Sosie Ruth Bacon (nacida el 15 de marzo de 1992). La familia vive en Upper West Side de Manhattan.

En 1995, Bacon formó una banda llamada The Bacon Brothers con su hermano, Michael. El dúo ha lanzado seis álbumes.

#Cumpleaños 🎂#Kevin Bacon #Youtube

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Literature courses should teach students how to read, not what to read. Students can acquire from teachers the rigorous pleasure of close reading, of comparison and analysis, of broadened sympathies and finer moral discrimination. Students can be taught to be skeptical, to label rhetorical strategies, to uncover political subtexts, to spot allusions, to recognize the anxiety of influence and to detect the function of such fictional structures as mystery, suspense and characterization. They can't be taught to like or even finish the Nichomachean Ethics. Our reading lists should be long, heterodox, seductive and they should include manty contemporary works; as John Ashbery once said, 'We should begin at the beginning, that is, the present.' The mind of a particular student, far from being just one more vessel into which the divine liquor of canonical wisdom is poured, is, at the moment of reading, the unique theater on which Shakespeare's plays are staged or the only altar where Bacon's Idols are overturned. A book exists only when a living mind re-creates it and that re-creation comes into being only through the full imaginative participation of a particular sensibility.

from "The Personal Is Political", Edmund White

#pearl diver

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Brief British Literature Timeline

The Anglo-Saxon Period

Earliest written history up to 1066

Gaelic and Old English were the spoken language

It includes the major historical events like the Invasion of the Roman Empire

The most notable piece of literature was Beowulf (it survived for so long)

Epic Genre

The Medieval Period

1066-1400

Languages spoken; Middle English (kinda a stepping stone between the old English and our more modern English), Latin, French, Gaelic

Canterbury Tales, the King Arthur legends

Ballads, Allegories and Romances (Genres) Code of Chivalry

The English Renaissance

1400s-1500s

Early Modern English and Gaelic

The English Renaissance marks the transition from the Medieval World to the Modern World

It was a turbulent time, full of wars, new monarchies, religious reformation, and a complete change in the social structure of all of Britain

Literature really exploded during this time, all of the arts really. We see poetry, drama and the beginnings of the novel

There are so many notable authors from this time;

Thomas More,

Edmund Spenser,

Shakespeare,

Francis Bacon

The Restoration

1600s

Early modern English

The first dictionary is published so there begins to be much more stability in the language.

Gaelic still survives

The novel is born (return to literature for masses)

Drama and poetry continue to be major

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Poetry of John Dryden

Religious themes during the restoration time

the idea of Lucifer etc.

The Enlightenment

Modern English almost the same as we speak today. (Still Gaelic survives)

Period of intellectualism

Authors not only wanted knowledge but they wanted to write about knowledge

Alexander Pope, Rape of Lock

Jonhaton Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

William Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

#englishliterature #englishperiods #literatureperiods #literaturenotes #englishlanguageandliterature #englishlanguage #british #britishliterature

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Nicholas Evans, who has died aged 72 after a heart attack, was the unlikely author of the bestselling novel The Horse Whisperer (1995), which became a Robert Redford film. Unlikely because the book, set in Montana, was a first novel by a British television producer, and landmark because the book sold for a record price at auction, and justified its sale price.

Evans had previously left a successful position as number two to Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show, where he produced many of the flagship programmes of the television arts series, including profiles of Patricia Highsmith, John Le Carré, Laurence Olivier, Francis Bacon and, most crucially, the film director David Lean, who became a friend and wondered why Evans was making a film about him, and not something he wanted to do for himself.

Evans then co-produced and wrote a TV film, Murder By the Book (1987), about Agatha Christie and her character Hercule Poirot, played by Peggy Ashcroft and Ian Holm. He wrote three screenplay adaptations, but by 1993 a film project had fallen through and he found himself £65,000 in debt and diagnosed with a stomach melanoma.

Evans had begun writing a novel based on a story that he had been told by a Devon blacksmith, who used the term “horse whisperer” to describe someone with a gift for communicating with horses. Evans had gone to the US, to meet men who did this, thinking the story needed a western setting. “If you set a book in postwar or contemporary Britain, something shrinks,” he said. “It becomes parochial.”

He gave the manuscript of the book, half-finished with an outline of the remainder, to his friend the agent Caradoc King, who took it to the 1994 Frankfurt book fair, where it instigated a bidding war.

Dell bought the US rights for $3.15m, Bantam got UK rights for $537,000 and translation deals in Germany and Italy netted another million dollars. The film rights went to Robert Redford for another $3m because Evans saw Redford in the role of his hero, Tom Booker.

While this was happening, his melanoma was removed by surgery and his local bank manager, who had been demanding repayment of his overdraft, called and invited him to lunch.

The novel got mixed reviews, especially in the US. Virtually no critic could resist mentioning Evans’ advances; many also drew comparison with Robert James Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County. Evans himself acknowledged the influences of Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway and Jack London. The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani called it “a sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women”.

But it shot to the top of the New York Times’ bestseller list, ranked No15 for the year despite being released in the autumn, and remains one of the bestselling novels of all time. Redford’s 1998 film, which starred the 14-year-old Scarlett Johansson as Grace, the teenager injured along with her prize horse, and Kristin Scott Thomas as her mother, who seeks out Redford’s Booker, and has an affair with him, did well but was not a huge hit.

Evans was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the son of Anthony, the sales director of a motor engineering company, and Eileen (nee Whitehouse). He was head boy at Bromsgrove school, and after a year teaching in Senegal for Voluntary Service Overseas, went to St Edmund Hall, Oxford to study law, where he met Jenny Lyon, his future wife, in their first week.

After taking a first-class degree, he started work as a journalist for the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle. In 1975, he started at London Weekend Television, first on Weekend World and then the London Programme, the broadcaster’s top current affairs show, before joining the South Bank Show as executive producer from 1982 to 1984.

After Murder By the Book, he adapted screenplays for the TV movies Acts of Betrayal (1988), about the IRA, and Secret Weapon (1990), the story of Mordechai Vanunu, the nuclear bomb whistleblower kidnapped by the Israelis and imprisoned for treason, and for the Julie Walters film Just Like a Woman (1992), based on Monica Jay’s novel about a transvestite’s romance with his landlady.

His second novel, The Loop (1998), brought a wolf biologist, Helen Ross, from Cape Cod into Yellowstone Park to cope with the reintroduction of wolves; pursued by a local lothario, she instead romances his 18-year-old son and cures his stutter. It sold 5m copies.

He followed this up with The Smoke Jumper (2001), whose titular protagonist is in love with his best friend’s wife, and who exiles himself as a war photographer. Next came The Divide (2005), about a wealthy New York couple who holiday in Montana, where the body of their eco-terrorist daughter is discovered frozen in the mountain ice.

Evans and Jenny divorced in 1998. He then married the singer-songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming. In 2008, while on a visit to Gordon Cumming’s brother’s estate in Scotland, Evans picked mushrooms for a family lunch. What he thought were ceps were instead highly poisonous webcaps. Evans, Gordon Cumming and her brother were all placed on kidney dialysis. Three years later, Evans’s heart began to suffer under the strain of dialysis, and his daughter Lauren provided him with a kidney; Gordon Cumming later received one donated from a friend.

At the time of the poisoning, Evans had almost finished his fifth novel, The Brave (2009), about a family’s hidden secrets.

When he began writing again, thinking for the second time he needed to finish writing before he died, he said the book changed direction. “I found new empathy with the characters ... it became more emotional,” he said. Gordon Cumming released an album of songs tied to the novel, and they campaigned together for kidney care and organ transplants.

The couple lived in a 14th-century manor house in Devon once owned by the film director Robert Bolt.

Evans is survived by Charlotte, their children, Finlay and Lauren, a son, Max, from his first marriage, and by Harry, his son from a relationship with the television producer Jane Hewland.

🔔 Nicholas Benbow Evans, writer and television producer, born 26 July 1950; died 9 August 2022

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

#JUST FOR BOOKS #Nicholas Evans #in memoriam

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Elizabeth(s) of England

Did you know that August 4th was the birthday of the Queen Mother of England, she would have been 122 if she had not passed away on March 30th, 2002 at 101? Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Loyn was born August 4th, 1900 and would later become the Queen Mother after marrying Albert Frederick Arthur George in 1923. Known as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother because her eldest daughter would become the current ruling Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II. While we are familiar with the longest-reigning British monarch, how much do we know of the first Elizabeth?

Seen here is a page for a two-volume set from 1754 which details the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first.

While the other two Elizabeths did marry and have children, the first Queen Elizabeth did not marry, but claimed marriage to her people, her country, and her crown. She was born to Henry VIII, who was of the house of Tudors, and Lady Anne Boleyn. She became queen of England following the reigns and deaths of her younger half-brother, Edward VI who became king at age nine, and her elder sister, Mary Tudor. However, it would not be until 1558 that Elizabeth, the second born child of Henry the Eighth would become Queen of England. Edward VI, Henry’s only living male heir, left the crown to Lady Jane Grey, his first cousin and became known as the “Nine Days’ Queen'' because Mary, Henry’s eldest daughter from his union with Catherine of Aragon, was deeply Catholic and Elizabeth’s birth had been ruled as illegitimate after Henry VIII has his marriage to Anne Boleyn annulled. The crown of England did eventually come to Elizabeth Tudor after the short reign of her elder half-sister, Mary I, known as Bloody Mary for her treatment of the Protestant citizens of England.

The reign of Queen Elizabeth I has been called the golden age of British history as it was a time of economic, cultural, and territorial growth for England as it became the British Empire. It was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth that the territories that are present day Virginia, New England and the Carolinas were settled, more notable the famed Roanoke Colony in 1585. It was also during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I that we see the rise of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spencer. Spenser was particular praised by the Queen for his portrayal of her as Gloriana in the Faerie Queene, to which she gave her eternal beauty, to which many of the portraits of Queen Elizabeth immortalized a radiant and youthful woman. In truth, she was badly scarred from smallpox which left her half bald resulting in the commonly seen white makeup and wigs. Since Queen Elizabeth never married and had children, though the court and parliament pushed heavily for it, she and her advisers arranged for James VI of Scotland to be her successor after her death in 1603.

Here are images of the front cover, marbled linings, title page, and the first page of the main text.

Birch, Thomas. 1754. Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 till her death: in which the secret intrigues of her court, and the conduct of her favourite, Robert Earl of Essex, both at home and abroad, are particularly illustrated : from the original papers of his intimate friend, Anthony Bacon, esquire, and other manuscripts never before published. London: Printed for A. Millar.

#rarebooks #books #special collections #british monarchy #queen mother #queen elizabeth birthday #queen elizabeth i of england #british history

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