March 2011
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interview with yours truly →
The blog Pages to Pixels asked me some questions and I answered them as best I could.
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Ten Thousand A-Year (Samuel Warren, 1841)
I have yet to meet a single person who has heard of, much less read, Ten Thousand A-Year. Yet it was extremely popular in 1855, from which period much literature is generally remembered. It is a British legal drama-comedy concerning the rise and fall of one Tittlebat Titmouse, a miserably poor London dandy who lives in squalor but aspires to aristocracy, not to say gentlemanhood.
He comes...
February 2011
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“It would be difficult to misunderstand what you say, sir,” replied Gammon;...”
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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Ambulance LTD - “Helmsman” Heavy...
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“…whatever his state of health may be, his appearance is foxy: not to say...”
– Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield
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“For God’s sake consider the consequences to your brother—to his family! I...”
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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“The easy elegance of every movement of her limbs and body as soon as she began...”
– Wilkie Collins, The Woman In White
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“The Infernal Spirits obey me as their Sovereign: By their aid shall my days be...”
– The Monk
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The Intelligence - “Like Like Like Like Like...
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“Theodore amused himself with relating to the credulous Nuns, for truths, all the...”
– The Monk
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People, Not Things, Are The Tools Of Revolution →
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“These faults may occasionally be excused in a work of length; but a short poem...”
– The Monk
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Michael Trommer - “Morning Haze” Tree...
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“What can repay me for having kissed the leathern paw of that confounded old...”
– The Monk
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“Amongst fowl, peacocks and pigeons, all fenny fowl are forbidden, as ducks,...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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“None sleep so profoundly as those who are determined not to wake.”
– The Monk
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Black Forest/Black Sea - “These...