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Door 3. It's class commentary, a reminder that things that are invisible to the upper classes are actually not unobserved by by other members of society (akin to Wickham having bothered all the tradesmen's daughters in P&P). Mr. Elliot is slick enough to shield aspects of himself from his cousin's family, but he can't hide entirely. And this information is available by treating other people like people.

There is this really interesting fairy tale element to Persuasion. There is a common trope where the heroine/hero often helps an old woman/animal (often they give something very small, like half of their loaf of bread) and then later, when given an impossible task, is helped by that same person/thing. (Examples: Diamonds and Toads, Puss in Boots, The Glass Mountain)

In Persuasion, Anne goes out of her way to help an infirm widow, though all she can offer is friendship. Then it turns out that Mrs. Smith is the oracle of all wisdom about Mr. Elliot. It very much fits the trope, so much that I feel like it was on purpose. Is it to tip us off that this is all an unrealistic fantasy? Or is it a hope that the good we put out will return to us?

#persuasion #jane austen

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#2 to 3 cups of half caf #i stop when i leave the house or 1 pm on weekends #anything imbibed after 3 has me seeing through time after midnight and waking up wired the next morning

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I think every dream should last forever until you solve a puzzle

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Photo by @i_digistuff IG.

#mcwexler

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The Dove

by Leonard Cohen

I saw the dove come down, the dove with the green twig, the childish dove out of the storm and flood. It came towards me in the style of the Holy Spirit descending. I had been sitting in a cafe for twenty-five years waiting for this vision. It hovered over the great quarrel. I surrendered to the iron laws of the moral universe which make a boredom out of everything desired. Do not surrender, said the dove. I have come to make a nest in your shoe. I want your step to be light.

#poetry and prose

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i headcanon him to have the same pair of shoes twice bc he got confused and asked chuck to buy 2 pairs instead of 2 shoes

#bcs fanart #op this should have a thousand notes

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Gillian Anderson for Vanity Fair (x)

#people say if you remember woodstock you weren't really there #that's the pile of scribble labeled vhs to me #if you didn't have one you weren't there!! #the x files #gillian anderson

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"I do not understand the question."

#star trek #the one with the whales

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#rory and lane = anne and diana #rory and paris = anne and philippa #i'm right about this #gilmore girls

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hey have you ever drawn Cliff Main? I'm curious what'd he look like in your art style, after all you draw old people really well!

you know how to talk to me anon

#bcs fanart

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For the last time: Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. She didn't hate him. His death was a very painful loss to her. She didn't write Frankenstein because she was stuck in a house with him and he was an unbearable person. For God's sake, just read her journals and letters.

#a good reminder that people have always had a problem distinguishing between the art and the artist

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i love you, pass it on (x)

#northern exposure #maggie's dead boyfriend society

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GILLIAN ANDERSON as MEREDITH PLAYING BY HEART (1998) dir. Willard Carroll

#i have been meaning to watch this for 26 years

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Emma Amos, Pompeii, 1959

Color etching and aquatint

Swann Galleries

#art tag

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#i feel like the 1000th episode of ncis is also connected to this

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Florence Welch, 2023 🧜🏻‍♀️

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Nice guy. Uh… I'm "tolerated." Right? People say "welcome" when they mean "tolerated."

RUSSIAN DOLL 2.05 Exquisite Corpse

#russian doll