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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 10, 2022 16:03:56 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 12, 2022 12:39:04 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 14, 2022 15:27:28 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 17, 2022 16:20:14 GMT
A VIEW FROM A HILL upon re-reading today seems to be the M.R. James story that is the most experimental narrative of them all by preternaturally entrapping its readers…
You need a mountain not a hill to overview its dark wiles working, I guess
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 23, 2022 14:07:13 GMT
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Post by PeterC on Jul 23, 2022 21:50:38 GMT
Des,
Have you done any reviews of LP Hartley stories?
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 24, 2022 7:17:03 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 25, 2022 15:48:20 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Jul 25, 2022 15:59:56 GMT
Indented--ha! I've read that story 3 times over the years and never feel I am quite getting the point, somehow (no pun intended).
cheers, Hel.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 25, 2022 16:10:58 GMT
Indented--ha! I've read that story 3 times over the years and never feel I am quite getting the point, somehow (no pun intended). cheers, Hel. The word ‘indented’ is used as joke in ‘Berenice’!  |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 25, 2022 19:18:15 GMT
It has been claimed that Poe got the idea for Berenice from reports in Baltimore newspapers in the 1830s that graves were being robbed to obtain teeth to sell to dentists, who used them to make dentures.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 25, 2022 21:37:12 GMT
It has been claimed that Poe got the idea for Berenice from reports in Baltimore newspapers in the 1830s that graves were being robbed to obtain teeth to sell to dentists, who used them to make dentures. Fascinating! Thanks! The Teeth Snatchers. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 26, 2022 13:58:04 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 27, 2022 11:14:09 GMT
I think, in hindsight, this review somehow landed on the actual answer to the title’s question — the concept of money! From an internet biography of FJOB - “On his twenty-first birthday in 1849 he came into his inheritance of around £8,000 and left for London. There he ran through his money in two years of luxurious living. […] He never returned, never again lived within his means,… […] …he amusingly satirises his poverty, it made him famous;” |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 27, 2022 15:57:42 GMT
I think, in hindsight, this review somehow landed on the actual answer to the title’s question — the concept of money! From an internet biography of FJOB - “On his twenty-first birthday in 1849 he came into his inheritance of around £8,000 and left for London. There he ran through his money in two years of luxurious living. […] He never returned, never again lived within his means,… […] …he amusingly satirises his poverty, it made him famous;” the whole thing remains f***ing terrifying! |
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