La cigarette (1919) dir. Germaine Dulac

CASA BONITA PT2

KYLE X READER!

Description: Y/n tries to find the best gift to give to Kyle for his birthday, getting help from her best friend butters. Y/n becomes a little closer to the gang. :)

Warning: Swearing, Fluff, Sad, color coded a little.

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"guy's I need help." I ask sitting down at the girl lunch table and just like that I had all of their attention on me.

" what's up Y/n?" Wendy asks.

"okay so I was invited to Kyle's birthday for Casa Bonita.-"

"CASA BONITA!!' "LUCKY!"

"OMG i WISH!"

"SO COOL!"

the girls gawk at this information, this was a shock. I had only moved to America a couple month ago so was still getting use to some cultural norms.

"What is Casa Bonita and what do I get Kyle for his birthday?" I ask the girls.

"Casa Bonita a super awesome mexican resturant" Bebe started

"Yeah! they have cliff divers, puppet shows, forever lasting food!" Nichole continues

"and they even have photoshoots you can do with friends. it's the best!" Hidi finishes I nod but sigh again.

"Okay that's done but what do I get Kyle for his birthday? he told me not to get him anything, but It would be way too weird!" I explain they all hum in agreement and we all start thinking.

"What were you thinking of getting him Y/n?" Wendy asks me I feel my cheeks heat up for some odd reason when she asked.

"Umm I was going it knit him a scarf with his favioute-" "Kyle probably already has a lot of stuff like that! Plus, he's loaded Y/n he could buy one whenever he wants" Hidi says.

"yeah, he took me too a basketball game in another town for a date!" Nichole says they all agree.

"he's loaded?"

"Yeah, all Jew's are! aren't there any jews in Australia?" Bebe asks me.

"Well of course there are, but their quite rare I've actually never met a Jew before Kyle. I wasn't really taught about it."

"don't worry about its Y/n, you can't make him a scarf do you know what he likes?" Bebe asks me, it took me minute to think...

"Umm, Terriance and Philp but everyone likes that! wait! he loves video games like guitar hero!"

"Nice why not get him something like that then?"

"Okay, then. thanks guys!" And like that the topic changed instantly but the question was still on my mind, should I get him something with video games? he probably already has stuff like that.

"You alright Y/n?" Wendy asks I nod my head and sigh.

"You know, personally I feel like Kyle would like the scarf better." this catches my attention.

"How so?"

"OH, just a feeling" She winks at me giggles and goes back to eating, we all catch up and soon enough it was class time.

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I walk onto the bus and make my way down Kyle waves back I sit across from his ale next to butters. Butters and I got along well, apparently, we have familiar attuites to life or that's what craigs say. Butters was a cool dude we play video games together at his sometimes.

"Butter's, I need your help."

"Well, whatever you need I'm here!" He says, I glance to Kyle who was talking to Kenny and Stan, he almost catches my eyes before I turn my back to him to face. butters.

"I don't know what to get Kyle for his birthday, I was going to knit him a scarf. But then the girls said he's rich and won't want that and to get him a video game."

"Oh boy that is a tough one!"

"Yeah! So, I wanted to know what you're getting him!" I ask my friend.

"Well, I was just going to get him. something with Philp and Terriance, like a T-shirt or a plush maybe I'm still thinking about it. But I mean Kyle already has a lot of winter clothes, so I think the video games are a good idea!" Butters explains I nod but then he starts talking again.

"But then again, I love the mittens you made me, I wear them all the time! there in my bag right now! So, Kyle might like the scarf better! oh man this is a hard one. I'm sorry Y/n." Butter apologies, you pat you friends shoulder a little and give him a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry butters, but thanks anyways I'll probably just ask craig if he's not too busy."

"I though you where g-going the Kyles tonight too play games?"

"Oh fuck-" I quickly turn around to Kyle and see if the bus driver is paying. attention.

I jump seats to Kyles quickly, as soon as a speed bump came. Kyle jumps slightly at this.

"Y/n? You shouldn't move seats the bus drivers going to get mad!"

"I know, sorry Kyle but I need to cancel our plans! just for today can we move it too tomorrow?" I ask him he seemed shocked but gives me a nod.

"Thanks Kyle! I know you love your schedules and I'm super sorry for cancelling last minute. seriously dude."

"Yeah, it's fine, but is it okay if I ask why?"

I freeze I can't tell him the reason I am cancelling is go to shopping with Craig for a gift for him.

"Oh, Craige needs help with something- it's a family thing you know! anyway, thank dude" I go sit on the very edge of the seat and wave the butters, who smiles back. but Kyle pulls me back to him by the back of my jumper.

"Umm, you shouldn't move because you'll get in trouble..." the boys cheeks where a little red and mine where heating up a little at this for some reason.

"I guess." silence appeared and was very hard not to feel Awkard by it,

"Kyle what's your favioute video game?"

"I love guitar hero, but I really want this game called Minecraft I'm hoping my parents get it for my birthday.!" we started to talk of video games, then our grades and how our day was and soon enough it was mine and Craigs stop.

"Bye Tweek, come on Y/n!" Craig says catching my attention.

"Okay Bye Kyle! see ya tomorrow.!" I say and grab my bag from butter seat.

"bye butters!"

"bye, Y/n be safe!"

I walk pass Tweek and wave bye to the boy with a smile, he smiles and waves back. and we get of the buss.

"Craig how was your day?"

"It was good, why arn't you going to kyles again?" he asks me as we enter his house.

"Hey kids how were school?!" Aunty asks.

"Good thanks Aunty!" I call entering the house.

"Craige, I need your help! what do I get Kyle for his birthday?" I ask him.

"I don't know, what were you thinking" Craig could read me like a book, and I follow him up to his room as we continue talking.

"I was going to Knit something for him, but the girls said he probably won't like it and I should play it safe and get him this video game called Minecraft or something! But Wendy said I should knit him something! and Butter couldn't help me! And I'm slightly freaking out!" I blurted it all out, he just stands there...

"Just take a deep breath, Your gonna be fine. Kyle will be happy with whatever you get him, don't start stressing over something silly." he walks me to his bed I sigh and I sit on it and breath like Craige told me.

"Okay, thank you Craig. but what do you think?" craig sits next to me and thinks, I wait patiently for my cousin.

"I think you should knit him that scarf you're really talented at that, when's the party?"

"This Saturday, 5:30 I already texted Aunty about it."

"Yeah, that should be enough time to knit him a scarf, He's going to like it Y/n. I mean I love the hat you gave me; I wear it everywhere." he points to his hat which makes me smile thinking of when I made him it. his old one was wearying out and getting too small so I made him one so the next time we came to America he could have it. It's weird to think I live in it and with him now. Waiting for my parents to finish the move before and buy a house in south park.

"Thanks, Craige You're the best cousin I could have asked for."

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Y/n was 15 minutes early when they pulled up to Kyles house. Y/n waves goodbye to her Aunty after dropping her off. She walks up to the door and knock. A woman with big red hair and a blue dress opens the door.

'So, this is Kyles mum?'

"Ooh hello their! you must be one of Kyles friends! I'm Sheila nice to meet you. Your here early! KYLE YOUR FRIENDS HERE EARLY!"

"It's nice to meet you ma'am, I apologies if I'm late- "No, no. your fine come in! Your actually early! it's lovely to meet you.

"Oh, what a polite young girl! it's lovely to meet you Y/n!" when she got in she saw stan and Kenny their as well.

"Y/n! Glade you made it!" "Happy birthday Kyle! hey guys!" I greet them.

"hey Y/n"

"hey Y/n, how you going?"

"excited I've never been to Casa Bonita before!"

"what they don't have a Casa Bonita in Australia?"

"No, so I'm excited to see one. All the girls told me it's fun."

"You'll love it! it's fucking cool!" I chuckle a little at kenny.

"hey I said not to get me anything!" kyle says notcing the small box I was holding it was so tiny compared to the other boys gifts.

"Sorry! I couldn't help it. It would be werid if I didn't get you a gift kyle. It's your birthday after all."

"Seriously you didn't have too." their was a small silence Kyle looked handsome in his suit, though his green hat stood out. You didn't question it.

"bu-bu-bu-bu" Ike voice was heard from down the hall as the little boy walks down the hall when he enters the room, he enters and made his way to the boy's and Y/n though no one had noticed yet.

"So Y/n do you go to the same school as the boys?" Sheila asks you.

"Yeah I only joined like a month or two ago- huh?" you feel something wrap around your legs and see a tiny little boy their hugging your leg.

"IKE GET BACK HERE! SORRY SHEILA HE GOT AWAY!" a man with a jewish hat on his head.

"IS this your brother kyle?" Y/n asks kyle who sighs at his little brother.

"Yeah, Ike come here-" "NO!" he shouts, Kyle eye brows cross.

"Ike come on-" "NOOOO!" he screams Y/n chuckles at how frusterated kyle was getting.

"Kyle your brother got a crush on Y/n!" Stan teases, making kenny burst out laughing.

"hi Ike could you let go of me for a second please? just a second." And like that Ike obeys your request you kneel down to his hight and pick the boy up.

"Your brother adorable Kyle!" "NONONONONONONONO!" Ike shouts making Kenny laugh harder and stan chuckle. even Kyles mum joined in a little.

"isn't that adorable Kyle! Your brother likes your little friend!" Kyle bit his tongue at the scene as his father tried to take back ike, but he gripped onto your dress tightly hidding his face in your neck.

"I'm so sorry about this?"

" Y/n nice to meet you sir." the mans eyes widden slightly.

"You have very good manners young lady, but I am sorry about Ike Shelia could you?"

"come on Ike let the poor girl go!" Ike lets go of your and heads to his mother, You give an awkard smile at this. as Ike is passes off to Kyle's dad.

"It was lovely meeting you Y/n," "you too sir." "oh just Gerald! anyway have fun boys!"

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by now everyone was there, Kenny, stan me, Kyle. Everyone but butters. which was weird, butters were normally on time for these things.

Kyle was pacing the room while waiting for butters.

"so, what did you guys get Kyle?" I ask

"A new video game Minecraft the one he wanted and some other games."

"I got him a controller for his Xbox."

Y/n thinks about their gift they were pricier than mine they probably thought about it longer. Maybe I shouldn't give him the gist? no that would look rude now!

"what did you get him?"

"umm-"

"Where are butters? we were supposed to leave 40 minutes ago!" Kyle asks looking down at his watch.

"Well, I think we just go without him Kyle! it's getting late!" his mum says.

"Yeah, screw him let's go." Kyle says We quickly get ready to leave, when the doorbell rang.

"Oh, there he is!" Kyle goes to open the door, and none other than Cartman appears. to be honest I was not impressed.

"Happy birthday Kyle I just wanted to stop by and give you your present." cartman says Kyle took his present and I couldn't help but role my eyes at this. he obviously did something to come. it's cartman were talking about here! the whole scene I was just giving him a side eye. then butter parents came looking for him. I was shocked, and scared for my friend Butters. Where could he of gone?! I only just saw him friday!

"Dude I can't have a part while butters are missing that weird." Kyle

cartman tries to convince him otherwise almost slipping up.

"How about we go looking for him?"

"Yeah, he always by starks pound he's always over their!" stan add we all cheer and Sheila says she will drive us.

"I hope butters okay." I mutter under my breath as we get into the car

"I'm sure he's fine Y/n, w-we'll just keep. looking.

"Yeah!"

"don't worry Y/n we'll find him." the guy's words make you smile a little, you didn't hang out with this gang much normally with your cousin craig and his gang or with Wendy's. You and butters being super close thanks to your similar personality's.

You sure hope he is okay. :(

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okay i'm tired night comment if you want a part 3

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🎼 00504 「Long Live Rock 'N' Roll」。

ロニー・ジェイムス・ディオについて知りたかったことがそれなりに書かれています、大きくて重ためな 300頁ほどのムック本 「情念のロック・シンガー ロニー・ジェイムズ・ディオ ("Stories And Works Of Ronnie James Dio Long Live Rock 'N' Roll" シンコーミュージック 2019年)」 を読んでいます。えっと、鮮烈のロック・シャウターの仲間入りができるやうに テキトーに書き留めます。

・イェンス・ヨハンソン (Jens Johansson)

1963年蠍座うまれのキーボーディスト。

・ウォーレン・デ・マルティーニ (Warren DeMartini)

1963年牡羊座うまれのギタリスト。

・エルフ (Elf)

ディオが所属していたバンド。彼らの 3枚のアルバムのプロデュースを手掛けたのは ロジャー・グローバーです。

・ギーザー・バトラー (Geezer Butler)

1949年蟹座うまれのベーシスト。ギーザーは "変なじじい" という意味なんださうです。

・クレイグ・グルーバー (Craig Gruber)

1951年ふたご座うまれのベーシスト。前立腺癌で死去。

・クレイグ・ゴールディ (Craig Goldy)

1961年生まれ蠍座のギタリスト。

・クロード・シュネル (Claude Schnell)

1958年牡牛座うまれのキーボーディスト。

・ゲイリー・ドリスコール (Gary Driscoll)

1946年牡羊座うまれのドラマー。他殺体で見つかる。

・コージー・パウエル

ドラマー。事故死。

・サイモン・ライト (Simon Wright)

1963年ふたご座うまれ、AC/DC にいたこともあったドラマー。

・ジェイク・E・リー (Jake E. Lee)

1957年生まれ水瓶座のギタリスト。

・ジェイムス・コタック (Janes Kottak)

1962年山羊座うまれのドラマー。

・ジェフ・ニコルズ (Geoff Nicholls)

1948年魚座うまれな、キーボードもベースも堪能なギタリスト。肺癌で死去。

・ジェフ・ピルソン (Jeff Pilson)

1959年山羊座うまれのベーシスト。

・ジェリー・ベスト (Jerry Bests)

1963年牡牛座うまれのベーシスト。

・ジミー・ベイン (Jimmy Bain)

1947年射手座うまれのベーシスト。

・スコット・ウォーレン (Scott Warren)

1962年蠍座うまれのキーボーディスト。

・スティーブ・エドワーズ (Steve Edwards)

生年月日不明なギタリスト。

・ダグ・アルドリッチ (Doug Aldrich)

1964年魚座うまれのギタリスト。

・ダグ・セアラー (Doug Thealer)

生年月日不明なギタリストでキーボーディスト。

・チャック・ギャリック (Chuck Garric)

1967年牡牛座うまれのベーシスト。

・ディオ

イタリア語で "神" という意味らしいです。

・デイブ・フェインスティン (David Feinstein)

生年月日不明なギタリスト。

・テディ・クック (Teddy Cook)

生年月日不明なベーシスト。

・テネイシャスD 運命のピックをさがせ！

ディオがゲスト出演していたりする、2006年のジャック・ブラックのポンコツ映画です。

・デビッド・ストーン (David Stone)

1952年うまれのキーボーディスト。

・トニー・アイオミ (Tony Iommi)

1948年魚座うまれのギタリスト。

・トニー・カレイ (Tony Carey)

1953年てんびん座うまれのキーボーディスト。

・トランペット (trumpet)

ディオは 17才になるまで 一日4時間練習していたさうです。

・トレイシー・G (Tracy G)

1959年山羊座うまれのギタリスト。

・ニッキー・パンタス (Nicholas Pantas)

ディオの幼馴染。ギタリスト。交通事故死。

・ビニー・アピス

1957年乙女座うまれのドラマー。

・ビビアン・キャンベル (Vivian Campbell)

1962年乙女座うまれのギタリスト。

・ビル・ワード (Bill Ward)

1948年牡牛座うまれのドラマー。

・ブラック・サバス (Black Sabbath)

レインボーを辞めたディオが (��ょうどオジーが脱退したころに) スポッと加入したグループです。

・ボブ・デイズリー (Bob Daisley)

1950年水瓶座うまれのベーシスト。

・マーク・ナウシーフ (Mark Nauseef)

1953年ふたご座うまれのドラマー。

・メロイック・サイン (Maloik Sign)

リングに上がった スタン・ハンセンの決めポーズで有名です。

・ラリー・デニソン (Larry Dennison)

生年月日不明なベーシスト。

・リッチー・ブラックモア (Ritchie Blackmore)

1945年生まれ牡羊座のギタリスト。

・ルディ・サーゾ (Rudy Sarzo)

1950年蠍座うまれのベーシスト。

・レインボー (Rainbow)

ディオと わたしの苦手な リッチー・ブラックモアが一緒になった すんごいグループ。スタジオ盤は 3枚しかないのですけれど、実況録音盤は それなりに出ています。

・ロニー・ジェイムス・ディオ (Ronnie James Dio)

蟹座のディオはアメリカ合衆国ニューハンプシャー州ポーツマスで 1942年に生を受け、ニューヨークで育ったさうです。

・ローワン・ロバートソン (Rowan Robertson)

1971年生まれ蠍座のギタリスト。

・ディオ関連の "デラックス・エディション" (2019年現在)

2010

悪魔の掟 (Mob Rules)

ヘブン&ヘル (Heaven And Hell)

2011

ディヒューマナイザー (Dehumanizer)

虹を翔る覇者 (Rainbow Rising)

レインボー・オン・ステージ (On Stage)

2012

情炎の炎 ホーリー・ダイバー (Holy Diver)

セイクレッド・ハート (Sacred Heart)

バビロンの城門 (Long Live Rock 'N' Roll)

ラスト・イン・ライン (The Last In Line)

2013

ドリーム・イーブル (Dream Evil)

マジカ (Magica)

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Its axiomatic famousness is essentially a modern phenomenon. Early commentators enthused, but they did not seem to consider the painting particularly extraordinary or unique. The elevation of the Mona Lisa to iconic status happened in the mid nineteenth century; it was born out of northern Europe’s fascination with the Italian Renaissance in general, and Leonardo in particular, and it was given a particular Gallic, or indeed Parisian, twist by the presence of the painting in the Louvre. Her image became bound up with the morbid Romantic fantasy of the femme fatale: that idea of an ensnaring, exotic belle dame sans merci which so exercised the male imagination at that time. An important figure in the Gioconda’s elevation to fatal status was the novelist, art-critic and hashish-smoker Théophile Gautier. For him she was ‘this sphinx of beauty who smiles so mysteriously’; her ‘divinely ironic’ gaze intimates ‘unknown pleasures’; she ‘seems to pose a yet unsolved riddle to the admiring centuries’; and so on. In a telling aside during one of his rhapsodies, he remarks, ‘She makes you feel like a schoolboy before a duchess.’ Another who quaked in her presence was the historian and Renaissance-enthusiast Jules Michelet. Looking at her, he wrote, ‘you are fascinated and troubled as if by a strange magnetism’; she ‘attracts me, revolts me, consumes me; I go to her in spite of myself, as the bird to the snake’. Similarly, in the Goncourt brothers’ journal for 1860, a famous beauty of the day is described as ‘like a sixteenth-century courtesan’ who wears ‘the smile full of night of the Gioconda’. Thus the Mona Lisa was co-opted into a chorus-line of dangerous beauties alongside such luminaries as Zola’s Nana, Wedekind’s Lulu, and Baudelaire’s Creole belle Jeanne Duval.  The famous description of the painting by the Victorian aesthete Walter Pater, first published in 1869, was certainly influenced by this extended bout of Gallic swooning. Yeats later paid Pater’s flagrantly purple prose the compliment of chopping it up into free verse, in which form it sits more happily:  She is older than the rocks among which she sits; Like the vampire, She has been dead many times, And learned the secrets of the grave; And has been a diver in deep seas, And keeps their fallen day about her… Oscar Wilde comments perceptively on this seductive Pateresque blarney, ‘The picture becomes more wonderful to us than it really is, and reveals to us a secret of which, in truth, it knows nothing.’ But the idea of the Mona Lisa’s ‘secret’ continued to reverberate. In E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View (1908), Lucy Honeychurch’s sojourn in Tuscany gives her a touch of the Gioconda mystery – ‘He detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things she will not tell us.’  Others reacted more sceptically, as in Somerset Maugham’s novel Christmas Holiday (1939), where a quartet of art-lovers ‘gazed at the insipid smile of that prim and sex-starved young woman’. Iconoclastic young critics like Roberto Longhi poured scorn on the painting, and even Bernard Berenson – though hardly daring to question ‘a shaman so potent’ as Pater – confessed to his covert dislike of this revered work: ‘She had simply become an incubus.’ When T. S. Eliot called Hamlet ‘the Mona Lisa of literature’ he meant it in a negative sense: that the play was no longer seen for what it was, but had become, like the painting, a receptacle for subjective interpretations and second-rate theories. The other life-changing event in the career of the Mona Lisa was her abduction from the Louvre on the morning of Monday 21 August 1911. The thief was a thirty-year-old Italian painter-decorator and petty criminal, Vincenzo Perugia. Born in the village of Dumenza, near Lake Como, he had been in Paris since 1908, one of thousands of Italian immigrants in the city – the macaroni, as the French dubbed them. He had worked briefly at the Louvre, which was why he was able to get into the building unchallenged – and out again, carrying the Mona Lisa stuffed under his workman’s smock. A police hunt ensued, but despite his criminal record, and despite his having left a large thumb-print on the frame, Perugia’s name never came up. Among those suspected of involvement were Picasso and Apollinaire; the latter was imprisoned briefly, and wrote a poem about it. Perugia kept the painting in his lodgings, hidden under a stove, for more than two years. Then, in late November 1913, he sent a letter to an antique-dealer in Florence, Alfredo Geri, offering to ‘return’ the Mona Lisa to Italy. He demanded 500,000 lire. The letter was signed ‘Leonardo Vincenzo’. On 12 December, Perugia arrived in Florence, by train, with the Mona Lisa in a wooden trunk, ‘a sort of seaman’s locker’; he checked into a low-rent hotel, the Albergo Tripoli-Italia on Via Panzani (still in business, though now called – what else? – the Hotel La Gioconda). Here, in the presence of Alfredo Geri and Giovanni Poggi, the director of the Uffizi, Perugia opened the trunk, revealing some old shoes and woollen underclothes; then – as Geri relates – ‘after taking out these not very appetizing objects [he] lifted up the false bottom of the trunk, under which we saw the picture… We were filled with a strong emotion. Vincenzo looked at us with a kind of fixed stare, smiling complacently, as if he had painted it himself.’ He was arrested later that day. Efforts were made to turn Perugia into a cultural hero, but at his trial he proved a disappointment. He said he had first intended to steal Mantegna’s Mars and Venus, but had decided on the Mona Lisa instead because it was smaller. He was imprisoned for twelve months; he died in 1947.  The theft and recovery of the Mona Lisa were the clinching of her international celebrity. Both unleashed a swarm of newspaper features, commemorative postcards, cartoons, ballads, cabaret-revues and comic silent films. These are the heralds of the painting’s modern existence as global pop-icon. Marcel Duchamp’s defaced Gioconda of 1919, saucily entitled L.H.O.O.Q (i.e. ‘Elle a chaud au cul’, or ‘She’s hot in the arse’) is the most famous of the send-ups, though it is pre-dated by more than twenty years by the pipe-smoking Mona Lisa drawn by the illustrator Sapeck (Eugene Battaile). And so the way was open for Warhol’s multiple Gioconda (Thirty are Better than One); for Terry Gilliam’s animated Gioconda in the Monty Python title sequence; for William Gibson’s ‘sprawl novel’ Mona Lisa Overdrive; for the classic citations in Cole Porter’s ‘You’re the Top’, Nat King Cole’s ‘Mona Lisa’ and Bob Dylan’s ‘Vision of Johanna’; for the joint-smoking poster and the novelty mouse-pad. Personally I suspect that I first became aware of the Mona Lisa through the Jimmy Clanton hit of 1962, which began: She’s Venus in blue jeans, Mona Lisa with a pony tail…  I’m not sure the ponytail would suit her, but the song’s wonderful bubble-gum blandness illustrates well enough the fate that has befallen this mysterious and beautiful painting.

Charles Nicholl, Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind

Book Review: Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most revered American authors. Naturally, in my attempt to read as many American classics in 2018, Fitzergerald shot up the list. His books are short. They revolve around socialite degradation in the jazz age. They are stimulant and alcohol inspired. What's not to like?

In an effort to reserve This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby for a later time, I decided on Tender is the Night as my introduction. Published in its entirety in 1934, it would be Fitzgerald's final complete novel. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings described the book as "disturbing, bitter, and beautiful." Fitzgerald, himself, in a scrawled note to a friend said, "Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith."

The Book

The story revolves around the chaotic history and life of Dick and Nicole Diver and the debutante Rosemary Hoyt. Thematically, the book sticks close to what Fitzgerald apparently knew from personal experience—young love, disillusioned lust, alcoholism, and mental instability. The characters revolving in the world of the Divers and Miss Hoyt help serve as foils to the progressive trainwreck of the main characters. It is beautiful and tragic.

Though potentially dated in its pacing, I thoroughly enjoyed the intelligent descriptions and introspective characters of Fitzgerald. Far from setting forward perfect or prefect-ing type characters, Tender is the Night offers a somber look at the Diver's rocky relationship through mental illness and dependency. There are a realness and sincerity to them that is cringe-inducing. There is a naivety to the young actress (Rosemary Hoyt) that manifests itself patiently in growing disinterest in the love of her mother and first serious crush.

Using the psychiatrist Dick Diver as a foil to much of his own turmoil, Fitzgerald injects his own struggles with alcohol, producing books, lust for young actresses, and conflict with a lover suffering from mental illness. The sadness can only be understood in light of the beginning. Once the physical presence that stopped the novel in its tracks, Diver retires from the story in anonymity:

"In any case he is almost certainly in that section of the country, in one town or another." (315)

The Audiobook

Narrated by Therese Plummer, the audiobook of Tender is the Night was fantastic. Plummer is an outstanding reader with wonderful pacing and sufficient accents.

In particular, I found that she added character depth to Rosemary Hoyt and Nichole Diver in a manner that emphasized the highs and lows of both women. With separate portions of the serialized novel emphasizing both women, Plummer's reading helps grasp both women's dynamic love and eventual disinterest in Dick Diver. I dare say, the book could only be best read by a female character lending strength to these women as they interact with Dr. Dick Diver.

 In conclusion, Tender is the Night reads like an Americanized Greek tragedy. Fitzgerald's brilliance and own struggles shine throughout. There are perfect sentences crowded among a paragraph of clutter. But in the end, the imperfections only serve to drive the story deeper. I wish I had read this novel twenty years ago.

Favorite Sentence: "But the space between heaven and earth had cooled his mind" (38)

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L'identité du tueur qui a égorgé cinq femmes fait l'objet de folles spéculations. Retour sur cette énigme criminelle, en partenariat avec RetroNews. Par Valentine Arama

« L'identité de Jack l'Éventreur révélée », « Jack the Ripper enfin démasqué », « l'ADN a parlé »… Fin mars 2019, des scientifiques britanniques ont annoncé qu'ils avaient découvert l'identité du tueur en série le plus célèbre du monde. Celui qui se serait lui-même surnommé Jack l'Éventreur, auteur présumé de cinq assassinats dans le quartier de Whitechapel, dans l'est de Londres, s'appellerait en fait Aaron Kosminski. Il s'agirait d'un barbier et émigré polonais, âgé de 23 ans au moment des faits, en 1888. Jari Louhelainen, de l'université de Liverpool, et David Miller, de l'université de Leeds, travaillaient depuis 2007 sur l'identification de Jack l'Éventreur. Pour savoir qui était le tueur, les chercheurs se sont basés sur un châle retrouvé par les enquêteurs près du corps de la quatrième victime, dans la nuit du 30 septembre 1888. Dans la revue Journal of Forensic Sciences, les deux scientifiques expliquent avoir analysé l'étole et y avoir découvert du sang et du sperme dont ils ont extrait l'ADN mitochondrial, c'est-à-dire celui hérité de la mère.

Un ADN qui correspond parfaitement

C'est en effectuant plusieurs tests génétiques sur les descendants vivants et connus du principal suspect, identifié à l'époque par Scotland Yard, que les scientifiques en sont venus à cette conclusion. La confrontation de l'ADN des traces de sperme sur le tissu avec l'ADN d'un descendant de Kosminski a effectivement livré une correspondance parfaite. Une théorie qui avait d'ailleurs déjà été avancée en 2014 par le détective britannique Russell Edwards.

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L'étole, récupérée à l'époque par un policier désireux de l'offrir à sa femme – qui n'en a pas voulu – était restée quelques dizaines d'années au fond d'un placard, avant de rejoindre le musée de Scotland Yard, puis d'arriver entre les mains d'Edwards en 2007, lors d'une vente aux enchères. Dans un livre intitulé Jack l'Éventreur démasqué, le détective avait affirmé qu'Aaron Kosminski, décrit comme paranoïaque et souffrant d'hallucinations, était bien l'auteur des terribles crimes de 1888. Mais pour d'autres « ripperologues » (pour ripper, l'éventreur en anglais), l'identification ne tient pas. Certains avancent en effet que la récente découverte de l'ADN de Kosminski sur le châle prouve seulement que ce dernier aurait eu un rapport sexuel avec une des victimes. Ainsi, pour beaucoup, l'énigme demeure entière.

Une première victime égorgée

Si l'histoire de Jack l'Éventreur a inspiré de nombreux livres et films, c'est parce qu'elle reste l'un des plus grands mystères criminels du XIXe siècle. Pour mieux la comprendre, il faut revenir aux origines de l'affaire, le 1er septembre 1888, dans un quartier défavorisé de l'Est londonien. « Un policeman a trouvé, au petit jour, dans une rue du quartier de Whitechapel, à Londres, le cadavre d'une femme. La gorge était complètement coupée. Du ventre, ouvert par une énorme blessure, les entrailles sortaient ; les mains, meurtries, indiquaient que la victime s'était défendue. » C'est ainsi que le quotidien La Presse relate le macabre fait divers survenu outre-Atlantique le 4 septembre 1888. Sans se douter que ce meurtre est le premier d'une série qui va terroriser bien au-delà de l'Angleterre.

« Les voisins, interrogés, déclarent qu'un peu après minuit, ils ont entendu le bruit d'une lutte, mais sans aucun cri ni aucun gémissement. Les disputes étant fréquentes parmi les habitants de ce quartier. Quant aux meurtriers, il est peu probable qu'on parvienne à les découvrir. » L'article se conclut sur cette funeste prophétie. La victime est vite identifiée comme étant Mary Ann Nichols, 42 ans. Fille d'un serrurier, elle avait épousé William Nichols, avec qui elle avait eu cinq enfants. Souffrant de problèmes d'alcool qui ont détruit son ménage, la quadragénaire survivait depuis plusieurs mois en se prostituant.

La piste d'un fou en liberté privilégiée

Le meurtre suscite un vif effroi à Londres. Sans compter que, quelques jours plus tard, un nouveau corps est retrouvé. « Un horrible assassinat a encore été commis ce matin à Whitechapel, dans la partie est de Londres. La victime est une femme. Cette dernière a été complètement éventrée et a eu la gorge coupée. Le cœur et les entrailles ont été jetés en différents endroits. On croit que l'assassin est le même que celui qui a commis précédemment un crime semblable dans le quartier ci-dessus désigné », rapporte le Journal des débats politiques et littéraires du 9 septembre 1888. Le quotidien évoque qu'un homme a été arrêté, mais il n'en est rien.

Peu de détails sur la deuxième victime, qui s'appelle Annie Chapman. Le journal français La Justice, daté du 10 septembre 1888, écrira seulement ceci : « Comme la première victime, elle fait partie de ces malheureuses qui passent la nuit de tavernes en tavernes et tâchent de soutirer aux ivrognes les quelques pences qui leur sont nécessaires pour payer leur garni. » Côté enquête, Scotland Yard piétine. La piste d'un fou en liberté est cependant privilégiée par les policiers. « Le jour où Annie Chapman fut assassinée, on a vu un individu entrer dans un lavatory. [...] Là, il changea de vêtements et abandonna son pantalon, sa chemise et une paire de souliers. Malheureusement, personne ne le reconnut, et il est certain cependant qu'il y est venu », est-il écrit dans le quotidien.

Le rythme des assassinats s'accélère

Fin septembre 1888, l'horreur monte d'un cran. Dans la nuit du 30 septembre, deux corps de femmes mutilés sont retrouvés à Whitechapel. La première victime a été découverte entre une et deux heures du matin. Il s'agit d'Elizabeth Stride, prostituée locale. Cette dernière a été égorgée, mais il semblerait que le tueur ait été interrompu, puisqu'elle ne porte sur elle aucun autre stigmate. La pauvreté évidente de la victime, l'absence complète de bijoux, l'état misérable des vêtements écartent cependant toute idée d'un crime crapuleux. En outre, beaucoup d'indices laissent croire que le drame est intimement lié aux précédents, et surtout à celui découvert quelques instants après, quelques rues plus loin.

Trois quarts d'heure après la découverte du corps d'Elizabeth Stride, les policiers sont informés qu'un autre cadavre a été aperçu. Catherine Eddowes, 46 ans, est retrouvée égorgée, d'une oreille à l'autre. Pour ce meurtre, Jack l'Éventreur a pris son temps. Une description de l'état du corps est révélée par le correspondant du journal La Lanterne, le 3 octobre : « Le nez, séparé du visage, pendait retenu seulement par un morceau de chair, et l'oreille droite était coupée. Le vêtement de la femme avait été relevé sur la poitrine et le ventre avait été complètement ouvert, une partie des intestins avait été rejetée sur le cou, exactement comme dans les meurtres précédents. » Après enquête, les policiers reconstituent l'emploi du temps du tueur, qui, selon eux, n'a disposé que de quinze minutes pour s'exécuter. On imagine alors Jack l'Éventreur docteur, puisque capable de manier avec habileté des couteaux.

Oreille coupée et lettre d'un corbeau

Illustration de Jack l'Éventreur dans les rues de Londres. 

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Tout l'état-major de Scotland Yard est aux abois. En effet, le détail de l'oreille coupée fait écho à une missive reçue par une agence de presse et transmise à la police le 25 septembre. Dans la lettre, écrite à l'encre rouge, un homme s'accuse d'être l'assassin recherché par la police. L'homme se fait d'abord fort d'échapper à toutes les recherches. « On avait pensé d'abord que cette lettre était l'œuvre d'un mauvais plaisant. On a remarqué toutefois que l'auteur annonçait qu'à son prochain crime, il couperait les oreilles de sa victime. Et cette tentative a été faite sur l'un des corps trouvés hier », écrit Le Cri du peuple le 3 octobre 1888. Cette lettre sera la première d'une longue série. Le journal Gil Blasreproduit d'ailleurs l'une des missives, envoyée à Sir Charles Warren, superintendant chargé de l'enquête. Voici son contenu :

« Cher Boss,

Si vous désirez me mettre le grappin dessus, je demeure maintenant dans City Road. À vous de dénicher le numéro. Mon intention est d'occire encore quelques dames cette nuit dans Whitechapel.

Vôtre, Jack l'Éventreur »

« Un spectacle affreux s'offrit à son regard »

Le cinquième et dernier meurtre canonique attribué au Ripper a lieu le 9 novembre 1888. Cette fois, une femme a été assassinée chez elle, dans le quartier de Whitechapel. C'est la plus jeune des victimes, elle a 25 ans à peine. À l'abri des regards, Jack a pris tout son temps. C'est un homme venu pour recouvrer un arriéré de loyer qui découvre la dépouille. N'entendant aucun bruit après avoir frappé à la porte, il se hasarde à regarder par la fenêtre.

Le quotidien Le Petit Caporal, daté du 12 novembre 1888, décrit la scène du crime, particulièrement insoutenable : « Un spectacle affreux s'offrit à son regard. Le corps de Jane Kelly, épouvantablement mutilé, était étendu sur le lit, la gorge ouverte, la tête presque séparée du tronc. Les seins avaient été coupés et jetés, tout pantelants, l'un sur une table, l'autre par terre. Le ventre présentait une large blessure d'où s'échappaient les entrailles. » Le quartier tombe à nouveau dans l'épouvante. La police, complètement dépassée, décide d'arrêter tous les passants à la mine suspecte et de lancer des chiens limiers sur la trace de l'assassin. « On compte plus sur leur flair que sur l'habileté des policemans  », raille Le Petit Caporal.

Plusieurs pistes, mais aucune arrestation

Le prince Albert Victor (1864-1892), duc de Clarence et Avondale, soupconné d'être impliqué dans les événements qui ont eu lieu a Whitechapel (Londres) pendant l'affaire de Jack l'Éventreur.

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Dans cette affaire, beaucoup de pistes ont attiré l'attention. Parmi elles, celle du prince Albert Victor, petit-fils de la reine Victoria, suspecté d'avoir eu une liaison avec l'une des victimes et d'avoir voulu couvrir ses frasques. Celle de Michael Ostrog, docteur russe et détenu par la suite dans un asile d'aliénés, ou encore celle du fameux Aaron Kosminski, suspect numéro un auditionné par les enquêteurs, mais relâché faute de preuves. Jamais inquiété, ce dernier est mort en 1919, interné dans un asile.

Dans les mois et années qui suivent le dernier crime, on voit Jack l'Éventreur partout. En 1891, on croit avoir retrouvé sa trace à Paris, entre la porte de Montreuil et la porte Bagnolet. On le reconnaît aussi à Berlin, la même année. « Un crime analogue à ceux de Jack l'Éventreur cause ici une émotion profonde », rapporte Le Guetteur de Saint-Quentin. Mais plus de cent trente ans après, et sans savoir pourquoi les meurtres ont soudainement pris fin en 1888, il semblerait qu'un certain mystère planera toujours sur Whitechapel.

Cheltenham Festival 2019, Day 4: Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips – Best bets for Friday, March 15

Sportsmail Robin Goodfellow's racing expert's day four of the tips Cheltenham Festival featuring the Gold Cup.

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ROBIN GOODFELLOW

1.30 Sir Erec

2.10 Ch'tibello

2.50 Lisnagar Oscar

3.30 Percy

4.10 Caid Du Berlais (nap)

4.50 Bun Doran

5.30 Early Doors (nb)

GIMCRACK

1.30 Quel Destin (na)

2.10 Western Ryder

2.50 Lisnagar Oscar

3.30 Native River (1945) nap)

4.10 Road To Rome

4.50 Bun Doran

5.30 Dallas Des Pictons

NORTHERNER – 3.30 Definitly Red (nap)

JLT TRIUMPH HURDLE

1.30: GRADE ONE – 2 MILES

There is a real chance SIR EREC has been truly tested over hurdles, but the long run from the second-last to the final flight should play the strengths of a horse rated 105 on the Flat. Third to the mighty Stradivarius in an Ascot Group Two last October, the selection, trained by Joseph O'Brien, made the running in the Spring Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown, sprinting away from Gardens Of Babylon after the last to win cosily – and that has often proved one of the best trials for this race. The Paul Nicholls duo, Quel Destin and Pic D’Orhy, are much respected. The former has become a winning machine this winter, while Pic D'Orhy is potentially a high-class hurdler and could surprise.

BEST BET: SIR EREC 1-1

NEXT BEST: PIC D'ORHY 8-1

RANDOX HEALTH COUNTY HURDLE

2.10: GRADE THREE – 2 MILES

Dan Skelton has stamped himself as a target trainer or note and this looks to have the plan for a good while with CH'TIBELLO. Thought good enough to run in the Champion Hurdle last year, the eight-year-old has had a wind operation since running a fine race behind Midnight Shadow at Aintree and the form received a boost when the selection's conqueror followed up in a Grade Two at Cheltenham on his next start. Paul Nicholls has his horses in terrific form, so Capitaine is feared, along with Imperial Cup runner-up Monsieur Lecoq, who is reunited with Lizzie Kelly. But last year's Triumph Hurdle runner-up Mr Adjudicator catches the eye as the chief threat, given the chased home Champion Hurdle hero Espoir D'Allen on his comeback.

BEST BET: CH'TIBELLO 15- 2

NEXT BEST: MR ADJUDICATOR 12-1

ALBERT BARTLETT NOVICES 'HURDLE

2.50: GRADE ONE – 2 MILES 7 FURLONGS

This can be a brutal race for novices and, with winners at 33-1 (three times), 16-1, 14-1 and 11-1 in the past nine runnings, it is a difficult one for punters. However, trainer Rebecca Curtis delivered in grand style for backers in the 2013 renewal with At Fishers Cross and LISNAGAR OSCAR could give the Welsh handler a notable Grade One double. The likeable son of Oscar was hugely impressive at Haydock last time in winning the Grade Two trial and the change of gear he displayed – despite finding the track sharp – to leave the talented Ask Ben toiling after the last was a breakthrough performance. He already boasts form on the track and saw off Dickie Diver at Chepstow, so boasts excellent credentials.

BEST BET: LISNAGAR OSCAR 13-2

NEXT BEST: The RRINROSS 12- 1

     Presenting Percy (left) has a major chance of a third straight Festival win on Friday

CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP

3.30: GRADE ONE – 3 MILES 2 FURLONGS

There is little doubt that PRESENTING PERCY has had an unusual preparation for a leading Gold Cup contender but concentrating on his racecourse performances suggested he has a major chance of a third straight Festival win. Davy Russell enjoyed an armchair ride aboard the eight-year-old in last season's RSA Chase, when his mount was produced to pick off the classy Monalee (Elegant Escape well back in third), and he's likely to have the race run to suit again. Every drop of rain plays to the strengths of reigning champion Native River, who should enjoy the return to a favored venue after acquiring himself well under conditions which doesn't suit this term. Last year's gallant third, Anibal Fly, appeals as a place contender again.

BEST BET: PRESENTING PERCY 7-2

NEXT BEST: NATIVE RIVER 9 -2

FOXHUNTER CHASE

4.10: CLASS TWO – 3 MILES 2 FURLONGS

This is a fascinating renewal with Stand Up And Fight and Ucello Conti representing two Irish powerhouses and, with five of the first seven home from last year's running also in the field, it looks like a cracking contest. It almost goes without saying the leading Irish hopes will take some stopping, but CAID DU BERLAIS, fifth 12 months ago, looked in great form when winning by 25 lengths on his Bishops Court comeback a fortnight ago. The selection is likely to be another patient ride by the excellent Will Biddick, who was on board when the validation slammed Timewaitsfornoone at Punchestown. Top Wood gave it a brilliant go from the front last year and could do well again.

BEST BET: CAID DU BERLAIS 8-1

NEXT BEST : TOP WOOD 25-1

GRAND ANNUAL HANDICAP CHASE

4.50: GRADE 3 – 2 MILES

This is sure to be fast and furious and lightly-raced chasers have enjoyed considerable success in recent renewals, so Magic Saint, Not Another Muddle and Whatswrongwithyou will all have their supporters. The layers have recognized the trend, though, so the trio are reluctantly overlooked in favor of BUN DO RAN who has a decent track form and is a much better horse following an absence. The last four winners didn't run after mid-December, so the 90-day break shouldn't harm the selection's chances. Marracudja is a little more exposed than ideal but he has finished first and second on his two course starts.

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EARLY had no answer to a shrewd tactical ride by Donagh Meyler aboard Blow By Blow in this race 12 months ago, but he is a year older and slightly better ground may help him see this test more convincingly. Two preparation runs in Grade One events behind Apple's Jade this winter have ensured the selection handicap mark has not suffered too badly and the booking of a highly talented conditional rider, Jonjo O’Neill Jnr, could be the last piece of the jigsaw. Coach Gordon Elliott is always afraid of this race and Dallas Des Pictons has a long leg for this event. However, Cartwright and Defi Bleu catch the eye and the money this week has been for the former, who left a positive impression about two miles at Leopardstown last month.

BEST BET: EARLY DOORS 13-2

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                   I HAVE maximum respect for Colin Tizzard's Native River and Thistle Crack in the Gold Cup but PRESENTING PERCY is my pick.

His Festival form is special and I am not worried about him not having run over fences this season. Training techniques have changed and trainers have much more to help them get a horse fit and ready to run, as well as being able to give them schooling practice to jump away from the track.

It's well documented that Presenting Percy has had two recent sessions around Galway race course to sharpen him up.

King George VI Chase winner Clan Des Obeaux has had a great season but I have reservations about how he will cope with the final quarter mile. The three-and-quarter miles is further than the run before and frontrunner Native River will make it an exacting test.

SIR EREC is the day's most likely winner in the Triumph Hurdle while DA LLAS THE S PICTONS, representing last year's winning trainer-jockey combination, was an impressive winner last time and looks the solution to the concluding Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys Handicap Hurdle.

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                   Some high-profile stables are represented in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle but the fact The RRINROSS is trained by the lesser known Philip Dempsey and ridden by his son Luke might mean he gets a little overlooked

That would be a mistake. This season has won two graded hurdles, comfortably brushing aside in the first of them Sams Profile, who was a decent fifth in Wednesday's Ballymore Novices ’Hurdle. Favorite Birchdale has looked good but the horse is inexperienced and worth taking on.

Trainer Joseph O'Brien has a strong grip on the juvenile hurdle division. He can land the JCB Triumph Hurdle with SIR EREC and I wouldn't be surprised if stablemate Gardens of Babylon is the biggest danger.

I am excited about the chances of my father's NOT ANOTHER MUDD LE in the Grand Annual Handicap Chase. He is improving and the strong gallop will suit.

DALLAS DES PICTONS, who has only leg in his last three runs by Ballymore Novices' Hurdle winner City Island, can land the concluding Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys Handicap Hurdle, a race trainer Gordon Elliott always targets.

CAPTAIN HEATH (MARCUS WANDING)

PRESENTING PERCY looks like he could be something special in the Gold Cup, while in the Albert Bartlett ALLAHO, trained by Willie Mullins, appears to have a huge future after being thrown into a decent race at Clonmel last month and winning easily.

FORMCAST (NIGEL TAYLOR)

Road To Rome has won all his four starts in hunter chases this season, and gained victory by a wide margin in a competitive race at Haydock last month. On that form, Road To Rome is a good bet to win again today.

CAPTAIN HEATH'S SELECTIONS

1.30 SIR EREC EVENS

2.10 CH'TIBELLO 8-1

2.50 ALLAHO 6-1

3.30 PRESENTING PERCY 7-2

4.10 HAZEL HILL 11-2

4.50 MAGIC SAINT 5-1

5.30 CARTWRIGHT 8-1

FORMCAST'S SELECTIONS

1.30 SIR EREC EVENS

2.10 MONSIEUR LECOQ 12-1

2.50 BIRCHDALE 11-2

CLAN DES OBEAUX 11-2

4.10 ROAD TO ROME 8-1

4.50 LE PREZIEN 8-1

5.30 LE MUSEE 33-1

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                   Presenting Percy heads the Gold Cup betting as the attempts to win at the Festival for a third consecutive year. He may have had an unconventional prep, but I didn't ask trainer Pat Kelly.

Davy Russell is on board and he has the utmost faith in the horse, as do I. If he turns up in the same form as last year, he is the best in the race. In the Triumph Hurdle, it's hard to pick holes in the form of sir erec. He looks the real deal.

In the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle, Derrin oss represents the value for me. He's battle hardened, he'll like the ground, the vibes are positive and he's 10-1.

THE BOOKIES 'VIEW

Day Three of the Festival was Black Thursday for the bookmakers despite Eglantine Du Seuil's shock win in the Dawn Run Mares' Hurdle.

The 50-1 shot was chased home by 66-1 and 40-1 chances as the Tote paid out a massive Trifecta dividend or almost £ 74,000. But by then bookmakers claimed the damage was done, with a set of results Coral estimated cost the betting industry £ 50m.

After a day when three favorites won and all but one of the seven winners was returned at single figure odds, Coral spokesman Dave Stevens said: "We thought Wednesday was bad, when favorites won the last four races, but that seemed like a good day compared to this afternoon.

" Defi Du Seuil and Sire Du Berlais kept the winning run for favorites going in the opening two races, before the popular Bryony Frost gained the second Festival win on Frodon. That set the scene for Paisley Park's victory in the Stayers' Hurdle and then Siruh Du Lac and Lizzie Kelly got in on the act. "It was a day we'd like to forget but we'll find it hard to."

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The Magner's Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase over 3 miles and 2 furlongs on Friday sees Native River, winner in 2018, out to defend his crown. Native River (3.30) gets the nod ahead of Presenting Percy, trained by Willie Mullins to triumph in the day's showpiece race. Irish trainer Joseph O'Brien saddles Sir Erec (1.30) in The Triumph Hurdle over 2 miles, notably backed down from 6-1 to even money favourite: "Sir Erec shows plenty of speed, and has stamina", said O'Brien. Jockey Mark Walsh said: "Hopefully he'll show up at Cheltenham in good form." The Randox Health Country Hurdle (2.10) over 2 miles sees 26 runners go to post, with Whiskey Sour tipped, and Monsieur Lecoq selected each way. The Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle (2.50) over 2m 7f includes Leader win tip Birchdale, Dickie Diver and Commander Of Fleet go head to head. Gordon Elliott trained Commander Of Fleet, purchased for a bargain 47,000 euros, is an each way selection. Richard Hobson trained Shantou Flyer (4.10) is noted (each way) as is Ucello Conti (ew) in The Foxhunters Steeple Chase Challenge Cup: "The long term aim has been the Foxhunters - hopefully he'll peak at Cheltenham," said Hobson. Gordon Elliott trained Dallas des Pictons (5.30) is tipped in the Martin Pipe  Handicap Hurdle: "He's a nice horse who has improved in every race we've had him," said Elliott. Pym is selected ew. The Johnny Henderson Grand Annual entry Magic Saint (4.50) is tipped, the Paul Nicholls trained horse specifically trained for the race: "I've always been training him with the Grand Annual in mind - he's a leading chance," said Nicholls. Whatswrongwothyou (ew).

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