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I appreciate the sentiment but I don't get all those "we made it to the longest night of the year! the light will start returning soon! it's all uphill from here & we're halfway there!" posts because like. Oct-Dec is the easier half of Winter. Jan-Apr is way harder. there's no big holidays or decorations, everyone is kind of over the whole Cozy Hygge Sweaters & Cocoa vibe so they're just tired & restless instead, and the whole thing is so drawn out & uneventful that it feels like it lasts 10x longer
the cold season Oct-Dec:
the cold season Jan-Apr:
let's be ready for winter with mama
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Wild Blackberries - Lucy Clayton
British , b. 1970s
Watercolour, blotted line technique and ink on paper , 42 x 59.4 cm.
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Droodles by Roger Price (from his 1953 book). Droodles (a blend of “doodle”, “drawing”, “riddle”) are simple drawings with a witty, often absurd, caption. The first one, as some of you may know, was used by Frank Zappa for his 1982 album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. (Zappa, a fan of Price's work, lived just a few miles from the artist and personally sought permission to use the image.)
These come from the 1972 edition of the book.
Hi, I’m here to propose that A.A. Milne’s distinctive syntax in the Winnie-the-Pooh books is a major origin of modern Capital Letters Used For Emphasis On The Internet. Observe:
(in which Pooh wryly self-deprecates)
(in which Eeyore masters modern sarcasm)
(in which Eeyore is vagueblogging)
(in which Owl says something i would absolutely type in the YOOL 2017)
(In which Eeyore continues to be a shining example to us all)
(in which Pooh describes a Big Mood)
(in which Piglet has a Relatable Experience)
I could go on, but you can read the books and find your own. It’s a weirdly modern-feeling layer to an old, thoroughly enjoyable story and most of the original Pooh books are online for free. I cited from this online text upload of the book. Enjoy!
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A bit of speculation, but how well do you think the Snows hid their financial situation? I just started rereading it because I've forgotten a lot but Tigris works in a very menial position, Coriolanus says that Grandma sometimes has visitors and At the academy, he congratulates the teacher on a dress that they both know is the one she wears every year, this after she asks about Coriolanus' shirt and, in front of an audience, points out that the buttons on the shirt look like tiles.
The Plinths are the only ones who can actually afford new clothes because everyone else, or at least a good majority, is still scraping by and living on appearances at least in some ways.We also know that the Snows fared particularly badly and Coriolanus knows some aspects of the families of some of his other classmates. For example, those who are better off because they didn't burn books or those who had to resort to cannibalism.
Coriolanus is supposed to know all this not only because of what he experienced (being an orphan and having to go out with Tigris vs. his classmate whose father went out to look for food, for example) but also because he is also very observant. But the Dean knows that, the teacher's comment seemed more petty to me and he tends to underestimate people.
The Snows' financial situation may not have been an open secret, but I have trouble believing Coriolanus has hidden it as well as he thinks it has.
This is a really interesting point! It's difficult to maintain a facade, but I wouldn't say it's impossible, especially not for Snow. I do think people knew more than Coriolanus believed they did, especially according to the points you made.
His neighbors, the Prices, also seemed to be keeping up the facade of their wealth, and yet, he still insists that the neighborhood in which they live is highly affluent as compared to other neighborhoods:
They would have to move to some obscure neighborhood and join the grimy ranks of everyday citizens, without status, without influence, without dignity.
But the most prevalent difference between the two families is their industry of investment. The Prices were railroad titans. That's an industry we see used many times in Ballad alone. There's no way they were still strapped for cash by the time Ballad was happening, especially with how he speculates the travel industry is picking up:
Arachne had laid out a little picnic for her tribute. A fresh loaf of bread, a block of cheese, and were those grapes? How could she afford those? Maybe the travel industry was picking up.
they'd need a way to travel, and hovercrafts don't yet seem to be as popular, so trains seem to be the chosen infrastructure for at least the Games. They have a major train station in the Capitol, too.
The Snows, on the other hand, invested in munitions in d13. Everyone would know that District 13 "vanished in a nuclear puff of smoke". What we don't know is how many people knew that the Snows had stake in the munitions industry in 13.
It was particularly vexing because the bulk of the Snow family fortune had also been invested in munitions — but in District 13. Their sprawling complex, blocks and blocks of factories and research facilities, had been bombed to dust. District 13 had been nuked, and the entire area still emitted unlivable levels of radiation.
They would know that the munitions industry was booming in Two from the presence of the Plinths, but that doesn't necessarily mean that people knew the Snows' wealth was from d13 munitions. It's possible they kept that part of their income private. We don't know if people knew the Snows invested in 13. We know that, but we don't know if others did.
It's highly likely they did from how Snow seems to know the industries of everyone else, but he's driven by the motives of facade and wealth, so that could just be because he's particularly interested in everyone's income. It might not be the Capitol norm.
I also think most of his classmates, if not all of them, are much more financially better off than he is. He talks about how some of their incomes "took a hit" during the war (like lumber from D7), but seem to have recovered. Perhaps they think the same of him and his family.
There's something to be said about how Mr. Plinth doesn't offer him money as a thanks for saving Sejanus. Meanwhile, he throws around money like confetti when his boy is otherwise in danger (buying the gym, buying the lab, etc.). He may know that money is the one thing he has over Coriolanus—unlike everyone else in that circle, who has money they can bargain back with—or perhaps he believes that Coriolanus has money, too, and would consider a reward an insult. Who deals in money when you have more than you know what to do with? sort of thing.
That, alongside the points you made, and the fact they had to move when they started taxing the property leads me to believe Snow thought he was doing a much better job at hiding it than he actually was.
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We don't give enough attention to the fact that Jane Bennet is genuinely friends with Miss Bingley and her sister. Even though they're terrible to the rest of the family, they're repeatedly called "Jane's friends." Even when Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst are running down the rest of the Bennets, they always say that Jane is a sweet creature and they like her. They invite her to things. They keep up a correspondence with her. Even after Bingley seems to have withdrawn his romantic interest in her, Jane still plans to visit his sister.
London is painful to her not just because she lost Bingley, but because she finds she was mistaken in what she thought were genuine friends. It's not that she was blind. Her kind nature means that she was more positive and forgiving and willing to give them the benefit of every doubt, yes, but she got to see a side of them that Elizabeth never saw. She had a lot of private conversations with them, and they showed no signs that their liking wasn't genuine. So she was blindsided when they turned against her. She's like Catherine Morland, whose only fault was that she thought everyone was as good as herself, so learning that she was mistaken in them adds another level to her heartbreak.
I think that Caroline and Louisa do/did consider Jane a friend on a genuine level, but that does not mean they are okay with her (and more importantly her family who would become their connection) marrying their brother.
When she did come, it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it; she made a slight, formal apology for not calling before, said not a word of wishing to see me again, and was, in every respect, so altered a creature, that when she went away I was perfectly resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer. I pity, though I cannot help blaming, her. She was very wrong in singling me out as she did; I can safely say, that every advance to intimacy began on her side. But I pity her, because she must feel that she has been acting wrong, and because I am very sure that anxiety for her brother is the cause of it. I need not explain myself farther; and though we know this anxiety to be quite needless, yet if she feels it, it will easily account for her behaviour to me; and so deservedly dear as he is to his sister, whatever anxiety she may feel on his behalf is natural and amiable.
I'm not as generous as Jane, but given everything we know about Charles and his sisters, they probably thought it was safe to befriend Jane because Charles would fall out of love and move on. They may have been surprised by how strongly he ended up feeling about her, and then motive overcame friendship. Building connections is more important to them then a six week friendship.
They are very socially motivated women. Caroline and Louisa liked both elder sisters at first, but started to focus only on Jane after Mr. Darcy took an interest in Elizabeth. Caroline is annoyed to have to host Elizabeth as well as Jane. I don't think we would have seen the friendship they did extend to her if they thought Charles would actually marry her...
Anyway, not sure if this totally makes sense. But I do think Caroline and Louisa really liked Jane and were sincere in their friendship. However, as Willoughby's sincere love for Marianne Dashwood couldn't overcome his greed, their friendship couldn't overcome their mercenary motives.
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I somehow always forget how great Pride and Prejudice is. It seems like a cliche. It's the basic white girl classic. People constantly talk about it and endlessly adapt it. Every time I go back to it, I'm blown away with its brilliance. Yet I still tend to dismiss it, rank other Austen novels above it, and get surprised by how much I delight it in every time I try to reread it.
Other Austen novels might be more complex, or have deeper themes, more interesting characters, or elements that appeal to me more, but Pride and Prejudice really does defy all those rankings and classifications and stand in a category all its own.
I think what it boils down to is that this book is a triumph of style and tone. The prose is perfectly tuned to keep things "light, bright, and sparkling." Unlike a lot of other classic writing, which can get bogged down in wordy narration, Pride and Prejudice is dialogue-heavy. The first few chapters are almost like a radio play.
We aren't spending pages outlining anyone's backstory or getting the author's opinion about issues. We're just skimming along the story, letting the characters bounce off each other like a pinball game, and letting the story emerge mostly through their interactions. It makes it immensely readable and rather ahead of its time, which is why it remains the one that everyone reads, and which elevates the whole to something that transcends the sum of its parts.
First Steps (1890) by Vincent van Gogh
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Taylor potentially announcing her new album during a podcast episode is a recession indicator btw