The Beautiful Thieves

The Novel: It is England, 1705. 17-year-old Elizabetha Chilton is on her way to meet her betrothed for their wedding, when her coach is stopped by the notorious highwayman, Damian Blackwood. After being kidnapped for ransom, the last thing Elizabetha expects is to have her views of morality turned upside down. As she tries to learn of his true motives, she discovers there is more to her captor than she ever imagined.

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Chapter 3: the rewrite has begun. Accomplished three and a half pages.

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LACUNA

[noun]

1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus; unfilled interval.

2. Anatomy: a cavity, space, or depression, especially in a bone, containing cartilage or bone cells.

3. Botany: an air space in the cellular tissue of plants.

Etymology: from Latin lacuna, “pool, cavity”, from lacus, “lake”.

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Negendaeghsche devotie tot den Heylighen Ignatius de Loiola : instelder der Societeyt Jesu, om door syne voorsprake te becomen de weldaeden ende jonsten, die men versoeckt. Uyt het Spaens verduytst door eenen Priester der Societeyt Jesu.

Today marks the 458th anniversary of the death of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The above rare book is a Dutch work published by Joannes Paulus Robyns in Antwerp, Belgium in 1712.  It is due for enhanced cataloging as part of the library’s 2014-15 project to expose hidden collections.

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INDITE [aka ENDITE]

[verb]

1. make up, compose, write, as in a poem.

2. to give literary or formal expression to.

3. to put down in writing  (indite a message).

4. Obsolete: to dictate, to prescribe.

Etymology: from Old French enditer, from Latin indīcere, “to declare”, from in-, used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits + dīcere, “to say”.

[Adrian Borda - The Book of Life]

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PHILOPHOBIA

[noun]

the fear of being in love and falling in love. The risk is usually exacerbated when a person has experienced any emotional turmoil relating to love in the past but also can be chronic phobia.

Etymology: from Greek φίλος - filos, “beloved, loving” and φόβος - phobos, “fear”.

[Sebastian Giacobino - Love Demon]

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ENSORCELL [aka ENSORCEL]

[verb]

to bewitch; to enchant.

Etymology: from Middle French ensorceler, “to bewitch”, dissimilated variant of ensorcerer.

[Edward Burne-Jones - The Beguiling of Merlin]

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Working on the book again, like good, old-fashioned escapism.

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2:15am: Chapter 3 (draft bazillion) edits finished. Time to start the rewrite. I’ve spent so long being terrified that I’d never pick this up again.

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Waistcoat ca. 1715

From LACMA

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I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

Jack Gilbert (via coooode)

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  Saducismus triumphatus[1] is a book on witchcraft by Joseph Glanvill, published posthumously in England in 1681.

The editor is presumed to have been Henry More, who certainly contributed to the volume;[2] and topical material on witchcraft in Sweden was supplied by Anthony Horneck to later editions. By 1683 this appeared as a lengthy appendix.[3] Horneck's contribution came from a Dutch pamphlet of 1670.[4][5]

The book affirmed the existence of witches with malign supernatural powers of magic, and attacked skepticism concerning their abilities. Glanvill likened these skeptics to the Sadducees, members of a Jewish sect from around the time of Jesus who were said to have denied the immortality of the soul. The book is also noted for the account of the Drummer of Tedworth, an early poltergeist story, and for one of the earliest descriptions of the use of a witch bottle, a counter charm against witchcraft.

Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century.[1]

He was a Latitudinarian thinker.[2] Latitudinarians generally respected the Cambridge Platonists, and Glanvill was friendly with and much influenced by Henry More, a leader in that group where Glanvill was a follower.[4] It was Glanvill's style to seek out a "middle way" on contemporary philosophical issues. His writings display a variety of beliefs that may appear contradictory. There is discussion of Glanvill's thought and method in Basil Willey's Seventeenth Century Background (1934).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saducismus_Triumphatus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Glanvill

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Whoops

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"In the second half of the 1600s and in the 1700s fashion trends were indeed promoted by the so-called "poupées de mode" or "piavole de Franza" (French dolls) who were dressed according to the French fashion and were supposed to help spreading Parisian trends all over Europe. 

In Carlo Goldoni’s Memorie, though, the writer recounts that, by mutual agreement, the Venetian tailors dressed the dolls according to their taste.  This was confirmed by the fact that two particularly popular trends in Venice, the polonaise and themariage, were unknown in Paris.  Apparently, this would happen since society was on the lookout for foreign fashion and trends (the same thing that is happening nowadays and that is actually impeding many young Italian fashion designers to actually enter the Italian market…), despite the fact that at the time there were strict laws punishing those tailors who imported fabrics from abroad.

The first fashion magazines appeared in the 1700s. Actually a few articles about fashion had already appeared in the Mercure Galant, a magazine launched by Jean Donneau de Visè in 1672.  The fashion articles published in this magazine between 1678 and 1679 were illustrated by images that could be considered as ads since they were accompanied by the names of the suppliers of the clothes and accessories.  Further fashion articles were published in 1729 and 1730 in the Mercure de France.  Magazines with proper fashion columns started coming out around the end of the 1700s, among them we should remember the Journal du Goût ou le Courrier de la Mode (Paris, 1768-1770) and The Ladies’ Magazine(England, 1770)."

Irenebrination: Notes on Architecture, Art, Fashion and Style Early Fashion Publications

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Update:

Forgive me for the lack of attention the past month or two. Life has gotten away from me. Don't worry, some of that time has been spent working on new chapters. But I am hoping soon there will be regular posting with maybe a new excerpt or two. Thank you to those who have stuck around in my absence.