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On November 21, 1934, Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre. The 15-year-old Fitzgerald found herself on stage after her name was drawn out of a hat. Lucky for us!! #GOAT #Legend #Jazz #OnThisDay Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1940

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this is me btw . . . me when online frienfds . . . me when close mutuals . . . me talking to the silly people in my phone . . .

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to all my muslim, jewish and non Christmas celebrating followers, hope you’re having a safe time and enjoying the Christmas sales

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A Star Trek idea: A comedy sitcom where instead of a Vulcan on a mostly human ship it is a human on a mostly Vulcan ship

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brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

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I have tried for years to discover something, anything, about this card with no success.

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Welcome to the 57th installment of 15 Weeks of Phantom, where I post all 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as they were first printed in Le Gaulois newspaper 115 yeas ago.

In today’s installment, we have Part V of Chapter 23, “Intéressantes et instructives tribulations d’un Persan dans les dessous de l’Opéra: Recit du Persan” (Interesting and Informative Tribulations of a Persian in the Underside of the Opera: The Persian’s Narrative), as well as Part I of Chapter 24, “Dans la chambre des supplices” (Inside the Torture Chamber).

This section was first printed on Saturday, 25 December, 1909.

For anyone following along in David Coward's translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (either in paperback, or Kindle, or from another vendor -- the ISBN-13 is: 978-0199694570), the text starts in Chapter 22, “On the floor I found the Punjab noose I had been dreading all night,” and goes to Raoul’s line in Chapter 23, “But we must save her! We must go to her!”

There are some minor differences between the Gaulois text and the First Edition. In this section, these include:

1) Chapter XXIV was printed as Chapter XXV. This numbering error was made in Chapter VII, and was not corrected, so it was propagated throughout the Gaulois publication.

2) Each chapter in the Gaulois publication is one number ahead of the chapters in the First Edition, due to the inclusion of “The Magic Envelope” chapter in the Gaulois.

3) Minor differences in punctuation.

NOTE: Leroux and his editors at Pierre Lafitte & Cie. must have been satisfied with this section, because there are no other textual changes that appear in the First Edition.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 25 December, 1909. This link brings you to page 3 of the newspaper — Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

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there's no way this hasn't been done yet but come on, she is the epitome of this tweet

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Viceroy! Your occupation here has ended.

Keira Knightley as Sabe in The Phantom Menace

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Hanukkah Sameach, to all my Jewish followers!

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There will be a lot of posts soon from people sharing how much they achieved in 2024. But in case someone needs to hear this, it's okay if the only thing you did this year was just get through it.... It's ok.

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I think the reason so many LOTR ripoffs fail is because they make their Aragorn analogue the main character, when the entire point of Aragorn is that he’s “the person the villains think is the main character, but is Not.”

Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.

Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.

And it works! Sauron is so fixated on defeating his Legendary Destined Archenemy with Extreme Main Character Energy that he completely overlooks the two ordinary little guys who were the real threat to him all along.

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'this property says it has nine acres but those neighbours look pretty clo-'

oh.

ohhhhhhhhh no