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Tues. Jan. 24, 2023: Digging Out

image courtesy of Richard Duijnstee via pixabay.com Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Waxing Moon No Retrogrades Snowy and cold Whew! Finally, we are done, for a brief shining moment with retrogrades, since Uranus went direct on Sunday the 22nd. Which was also Chinese Lunar New Year, and we are now in the Year of the Water Rabbit. Which is why tomorrow was chosen as the launch day for ANGEL…

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Today's reading list

A retrospective reading list today, as I was researching the historical background for an essay. These resources were all actually incredibly relevant - it took a full day to process them, but I feel much more capable now of asserting that the points I'm making out of the literary texts will be supported by critical ones.

MacDonald, Robert. Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and the Boy Scout Movement, 1890-1918. University of Toronto Press, 1993.

A chance call with my uncle this morning reminded me that Baden-Powell and his contemporaries were overtly inspired by writers such as Kipling, so the Scouting movement is perfect for the context of what values and qualities the nineteenth/twentieth century hoped to instill in its boys.

Brown, Michael; Barry, Anna Maria and Begiato (eds). Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the Long Nineteenth Century. Manchester University Press, 2019.

This was a great overview of what men aspired to and were expected to aspire to in this period, as well as signposting me to the next great resource. This text directly connects the ideals of masculinity to empire/war, which is perfect.

Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverence. John Murray, 1859, accessed via the Gutenberg Project

I want to kiss the Gutenberg project on the mouth. I've been really struggling to find books of the period which discuss how men 'ought' to be - and this is the jackpot. I found a mention of it in Martial Masculinities and managed to track it down on Gutenberg - I think it's meaty enough to be my primary source of this type, along with my critical sources for commentary.

So... touch wood, that should be my reading for this essay done. Now I just have to check my plan still makes sense, probably resend it to my tutor for discussion on Monday, and then wait for the Christmas holidays to hit so I can get started on writing! This term has been... a lot. But as long as I can churn out two solid essays by the beginning of January, that should be the most concentrated period of work sorted.

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what if i told you this is from a book by gaston leroux that is NOT phantom of the opera

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OOPSIE!~

I seem to have slipped, and dropped some links to books related to the upcoming canto

[Spain, 1605 & 1615] The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha//Don Quixote; Written by Miguel de Cervantes: I shouldnt need to explain how this one is related. Gutenburg; Wikisource; Wikisource (es.);

[1797] The Bride of Corinth: Written by Geothe Gutenburg; Wikisource; Public Library (UK)

[Ireland, 1872] Carmilla: written by Sheridan Le Fanu The story follows a young woman being preyed upon by a lesbian vampire~ Gutenburg ;Wikisource;

[England, 1897] Dracula: Written by Baum Stoker. This is probably the most famous vampire novel/character aside from maybe twilight Gutenburg ;Wikisource

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Fuck Elon Musk!

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it is so good to physically read sherlock holmes- in an actual book!

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The Yellow Book https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41875 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41876

The Savoy (periodical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savoy_%28periodical%29 https://archive.org/details/savoy01symo/ https://archive.org/details/savoy02symo/ https://archive.org/details/savoy03symo/

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just scrolling through the most recent downloaded Gutenberg books

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I'll read this if someone buys me a drink

[bethanydelleman]

“Pierce” in Persuasion

Jane Austen does this thing where she uses certain words only for certain characters or in certain novels. Emma uses the word “blunder” more than any other book (it’s a major plot clue) and the word “supernumerary” is only used twice in her entire compendium and both times it’s near Mrs. Norris in Mansfield Park. 

The novel Persuasion uses the word “pierce” exactly twice and both times it’s said by Captain Wentworth:

He stopped. A sudden recollection seemed to occur, and to give him some taste of that emotion which was reddening Anne’s cheeks and fixing her eyes on the ground. After clearing his throat, however, he proceeded thus—

“I confess that I do think there is a disparity, too great a disparity, and in a point no less essential than mind. I regard Louisa Musgrove as a very amiable, sweet-tempered girl, and not deficient in understanding, but Benwick is something more. He is a clever man, a reading man; and I confess, that I do consider his attaching himself to her with some surprise. Had it been the effect of gratitude, had he learnt to love her, because he believed her to be preferring him, it would have been another thing. But I have no reason to suppose it so. It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me. A man like him, in his situation! with a heart pierced, wounded, almost broken! Fanny Harville was a very superior creature, and his attachment to her was indeed attachment. A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.” (Ch 20)

And the second:

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.... (Ch 22)

Wentworth cannot understand how Captain Benwick can recover from the wound of losing the love of his life, because Wentworth never has. These two statements are bound by the word “pierce”.

(Thank you Project Gutenberg. I only noticed this because I use “pierce” as a search term to find the letter)

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anyway. online source of the full, searchable Isabel Hapgood translation of Les Misérables

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Yo, Quick PSA. I want to tell y'all about Standard Ebooks, ive been really loving them as of late and thought this would be of interest to my followers

Since 2015 these people have been turning public domain ebooks from project gutenberg into beautiful ebooks that have a nice cover, standardized typing and structure and work well on almost all e-readers and e-book apps.

This is by far the best way to read some of these books. Look through their catalog and see if you find something you like.

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The immense satisfaction that comes from saying "wait, how old is this book?" when Amazon tries to sell me a very old-fashioned-looking work for 'just £1.99' and then finding it on Project Gutenberg for free instead.

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This is my first small book - a little smaller than A6 when trimmed down. I typeset this copy of Shakespeare’s Sonnets using Project Gutenberg, and illustrations freely provided at KarensWhimsy.com. I even rounded and backed the textblock - though that is not as evident as I had hoped it would be. The endpapers are from the National Archives, and while I wanted to use a sample of Shakespeare’s writing, I had difficulty finding something that was presented online in high quality. So this is from Shakespeare Documented, and it is The Inquisition Post Mortem of Thomas Brend, one of the witnesses to the construction of the Globe, and to the lease of the property. Shakespeare is named in the document, which can be found here.