alisonjaye.bsky.social
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I read The Loved One in college. I’ve had BR for years but never read. Just bought a bunch of Waughs at a library sale (50 cents apiece).
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Yes
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“Outside the Army Council Room, side by side on the passage wall, hung, so far as I knew, the only pictures in the building, a huge pair of subfusc massively framed oil-paintings…” (1st sentence of today’s reading)
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Yes. Love it so far.
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It’s a subfusc day. In my Brideshead Revisited reading today as well.
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Thank you @literaturesc.bsky.social and @imnjupiter.bsky.social
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Nothing as long as they don’t start burning books!
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That picture looks familiar! 😁
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Enjoy!
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That’s got to be one of the best obituaries I’ve ever read! Thank you.
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Also from Wikipedia: Ward later lived in Mexico with her second husband, Patrick Tritton (born 1934), an old Etonian and graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, whom she married in 1978 and was possibly the model for Dicky Umfraville.
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Love that cover!
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You can’t meditate stupid out of office!
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My mind must be a sieve because I can’t keep it straight. 😵💫
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That’s an insult to Widmerpool!
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No
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Nice. Want to read The Corfu Trilogy after watching The Durrells in Corfu.
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No, on the bucket list.
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No, but I want to. Run! I would grab both of them.
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The whole set was $12? What a bargain!
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No words
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Sounds wonderful! Now that you pointed it out. Proust on bottom?
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My dream job would be to own such a bookstore.
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Thanks for keeping track of all these positions.
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Looked that word up
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I approve of a little schadenfreude when it comes to certain people.
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I never heard of “noughts and crosses” aka tic-tac-toe.