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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 19h

If I'm winkled!

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 19h

The BBC miniseries had changed that scene! I was very surprised reading it after watching the show.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“…and all at once you’ll be right there at around the time Humphrey Bogart drove a ‘38 Plymouth (poetic license; I don’t know what he drove).” (p51) 😂😂

“…the fact that mountains & hills come so close down to the main streets. I always find it heartbreakingly unselfconscious.” (p52)
#NYRBWomen25

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rpmoon.bsky.social @rpmoon.bsky.social · 1d

"Those people were living in their moment, and though I could set it I could no more return to that moment than I would walk across the water that separated us. And those two ways of living--living in the moment and living outside of it--which was the more real?" p75
+1
#rachelcusktogether

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

Me too!!

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 1d

#RachelCuskTogether

Day 13

"There was no longer a shared vision, a shared reality even. Each of them saw things now solely from his own perspective: there was only point of view."

At this point, I feel like this is what the novel(s) are about: perspective, point of view.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

"It seemed incredible to me that at the age of fifty-one I was still capable of producing, in all innocence, a completely unrealisable hope." ch.5

#RachelCuskTogether #Outline

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

CHAMBERLAIN.
There's a trim rabble let in: are all those
Your faithful friends o'th'suburbs? We shall have
Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,
When they pass back from the christening!

Act V s3 #HenryVIII_2025 Expecting lots o' ladies again. Anne's popular with the common women...?

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

I also like that the "suburbs" were "areas outside the City walls and its jurisdiction, known for lawlessness and prostitution" ! (RSC annotation)

Thought this was a 20th c. word. 🧐

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

I also like that the "suburbs" were "areas outside the City walls and its jurisdiction, known for lawlessness and prostitution" ! (RSC annotation)

Thought this was a 20th c. word. 🧐

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

Inneristing- Louisianans pronounce Paris Road as "Parish"! (runs through a town east of New Orleans called Chalmette (home of the Chalmette Battlefields from the Battle of New Orleans, 1815)). Seeing lots of British language influences in the American Deep South dialect.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

Inneristing- Louisianans pronounce Paris Road as "Parish"! (runs through a town east of New Orleans called Chalmette (home of the Chalmette Battlefields from the Battle of New Orleans, 1815)). Seeing lots of British language influences in the American Deep South dialect.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 22h

I disliked the quiet ending less than the first time- perhaps include Gaskell's bio of Charlotte after we read all of the fiction?

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 23h

That sounds good too!

christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 23h

#HenryVIII_2025 Day 28, 10/14- Act V s3
(penultimate day!)

Location. By a gate of the royal court, London.

PORTER. You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Paris Garden?

* Paris Garden: bear-baiting arena on London's Bankside, near the Globe theatre

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Can we start with one of Anne's novels?

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 2d

#HenryVIII_2025 I'm kinda glad that King Lear's next as it was a later play too (both were performed during the reign of King James of England & Scotland).

Miss Mainwaring @miss-mainwaring.bsky.social · 2d

V, 2.Earlier Shakesp plays turmoil around the king is a land, power, money grab. Here, the aristo's are upset about Cranmer's power over the minds of the people. Very new age. Control beliefs, and a new kind of victory is possible. HenryVIII_2025

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MaryD @maryd.bsky.social · 2d

King Lear is probably my favorite. Every dysfunctional family can relate! 😉

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

I have both Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- I'm ready!!!

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

#HenryVIII_2025 Day 27, 10/13- Act V s2 from 154 "CRANMER. For me?" to end of scene,

KING HENRY VIII.
As I have made ye one, lords, one remain:
So I grow stronger, you more honour gain.

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 2d

Aphoristic lines like this are typically signposts offering clear insight into the worldview of the author or protagonist. We’re conditioned to treat them as miniature truths, endorsed by the author. But Cusk deliberately unsettles that expectation. The protagonist isn't proclaiming; just listening.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 2d

#HenryVIII_2025 I'm kinda glad that King Lear's next as it was a later play too (both were performed during the reign of King James of England & Scotland).

Miss Mainwaring @miss-mainwaring.bsky.social · 2d

V, 2.Earlier Shakesp plays turmoil around the king is a land, power, money grab. Here, the aristo's are upset about Cranmer's power over the minds of the people. Very new age. Control beliefs, and a new kind of victory is possible. HenryVIII_2025

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 2d

Me too! Was obsessed with it in high school.

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 2d

#RachelCuskTogether

Day 10

"I said that I didn't believe people could change so completely, could evolve an unrecognisable morality; it was merely that that part of themselves had lain dormant, waiting to be evoked by circumstances."

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 2d

It was a horrible room, ill-proportioned, bookless, furnished not in poor taste but in no taste at all. A huge sofa of repellent design and two armchairs surrounded the fireplace and a heavy mahogany table, ornately carved and lurching on its pedestal, occupied the centre of the room. 55

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