April 2011
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Labradford - “David” Fixed::Content
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“A wanton eye, a liquorish tongue, and a gamesome hand.”
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“Many men neglect the tumults of the world, and care not for glory, and yet they...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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“…A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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Unwound - “We Invent You” Leaves Turn...
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“Horner: But I did not expect marriage from such a whoremaster as you; one that...”
– The Country Wife
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“The freedom of thought and speech arising from, and privileged by, our...”
– Preface to Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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Gang Gang Dance - “Nomad For Love...
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“Horner: Nay, madam, rather than they shall prejudice your honour, I’ll...”
– The Country Wife
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Vocabulary: Epic Bale Edition
drugget: a coarse, shabby fabric of cotton or wool (from the French drogue, trash) murrain: a plague, especially among cattle (from the French moraine, pestilence) gymnosophist: one of a sect of Indian ascetics who refused themselves clothes prorogue: to postpone, discontinue, or suspend a legal or legislative meeting cruet: one or more small bottles or containers for oil, vinegar, salt, etc...
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Chopin - Piano Sonata No.2 (Op. 35) (Grave -...
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“For, impartially speaking, the French are as much better critics than the...”
– John Dryden
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“Horner: Doctor, there are quacks in love as well as physic, who get but the...”
– William Wycherley, The Country Wife
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Animal Collective - “In The Flowers”...
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The Monk (Matthew Lewis, 1796)
Literature which was considered shocking on its debut is but rarely shocking three hundred years later. The Monk is no exception (as opposed to, say, Fanny Hill), though it’s easy to see how in a time of great piety and fear of the church, a tale of this type might be both universally reviled and devoured.
There are a few stories loosely interwoven, all based in or around a convent and...
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“This particular pool of light moving in a mesmeric manner backwards and forwards...”
– Mervyn Peak, Titus Groan
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Frame Wars →
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Set Fire To Flames - “Steal Compass/Drive...
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“Never less solitary than when he was alone, never more busy than when he seemed...”
– Tully (of Scipio Africanus)
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“Varium et mutabile semper femina is the sharpest satire, in the fewest words,...”
– John Dryden, Dedication to the Aeneid
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Laura Gibson - “Shadows On Parade”...
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“We are naturally displeas’d with an unknown critic, because we are bitten...”
– John Dryden
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“The man’s voracious vanity devoured this implied tribute to his local and...”
– The Woman In White
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