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artistic-lightcycle · 2 years

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Faisal's tent in a nutshell

#this was a lot of work #Loa #lawrence of arabia #meme #my meme #Peter O'Toole #Omar Sharif #Alec Guinness #Anthony Quayle #T.E.Lawrence #prince Faisal #Ali ibn el Kharisch #Colonel Brighton

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eriksangel666 · 10 months

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T.E. Lawrence to Feisal: I think it is far from Damascus

Colonel Brighton:

#lawrence of arabia #te lawrence #peter o'toole #feisal #alec guiness #colonel brighton #michael scott #the office #meme

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wezg · 2 years

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Review: The Third Man and The Fallen Idol - by Graham Greene

Review: The Third Man and The Fallen Idol – by Graham Greene

Graham Greene is a classic early twentieth century English novelist. I remember studying Brighton Rock for my school GCSEs.The Third Man is set in the murky underworld of post World War 2 Vienna. The Austrian capital has been quartered into four allied zones: English, French, American and Russian. A front of the Cold War there are often tensions between Communist Russia (Soviet Union) and the…

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bethanydelleman · 1 year

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A Full Defense of Lydia Bennet

Lydia Bennet is not a villain, but she gets a lot of hate for carelessly running off with Wickham and possibly ruining her sister’s lives. The narrator and characters, however, do not blame Lydia very much and I don’t think the author meant for us to hate her. She was failed by her parents, who did not teach her how to properly behave and did not ensure she was properly protected.

Obviously, the real villain is Wickham.

The most vicious takedown of Lydia is put in the mouth (letter) of a character we should not respect, Mr. Collins. We already know that his morality is skewed, as he seems to view the collection of tithes and sucking up to Lady Catherine as his primary duties, he writes this of Lydia, “I am inclined to think that her own disposition must be naturally bad, or she could not be guilty of such an enormity, at so early an age.” (Ch 48). However, even he mentions the real cause, “a faulty degree of indulgence”.

Elizabeth feels this cause strongly, and lays out a good argument for her father on why Lydia should not go to Brighton, “She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia’s general behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.” (Ch 41). Mr. Bennet dismisses all these great arguments because he is too lazy to deal with Lydia’s disappointment. He’s been a lazy parent and continues to be.

Mr. Bennet then takes on the responsibility for what happened, ““Who should suffer but myself? It has been my own doing, and I ought to feel it… No, Lizzy, let me once in my life feel how much I have been to blame.” (Ch 50). Lydia has been allowed to run around flirting with officers for months, without any check on her conduct. She does not act within the rules of society, and while Elizabeth and Jane have tried to correct her, Lydia knew they had no real authority. She needed parents and neither of them did their duty.

Mr. Bennet also acknowledges that he failed his daughters by not saving money for their future provision, “Had he done his duty in that respect” (Ch 50).

Mrs. Bennet shares this guilt, little as she will accept it: Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes’ conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must principally be owing. (Ch 47)

Lastly, Lydia was failed by Darcy, who talks about his share of the blame here: “Wickham’s worthlessness had not been so well known as to make it impossible for any young woman of character to love or confide in him. He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.” (Ch 52). We see in Sense & Sensibility Elinor asking everyone who knows him about Willoughby’s character. Character references were important, that is how women knew they were safe in a man’s presence. Darcy knew the truth and he left Meryton and the Bennets in danger.

Lydia did make a choice (and certainly the wrong one), but she does not deserve all the blame for what happened. The narrator makes it clear that no one should be surprised by the outcome. Lydia was not taught was what right, she was not taught to control her impulses, and she was put out in the world too young, as Colonel Brandon said in Sense & Sensibility, “But can we wonder that… without a friend to advise or restrain her… she should fall?”

Related posts: Lydia too young to be out, Should Darcy have warned Meryton?

#lydia bennet #misunderstood villains #though she's not even a villain but people call her one #pride and prejudice #wickham #it is not modern of me to say Lydia is not to blame #It might have been modern of Jane Austen #But it's right there in the book she wrote #though Lydia has free will and she made choices #but she is 15 years old and Wickham was an adult

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aristocratic-otter · 9 months

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Thank you to @whatevertheweather, @messofthejess, @hushed-chorus, @ionlydrinkhotwater, @wellbelesbian, @iamamythologicalcreature, @ivelovedhimthroughworse and @thewholelemon for the tags this week. I've got no students yet (they start next week), so I'm still managing some words on all my fics (we'll see how long that lasts).

So, on with my quest to turn all of my favorite childhood movies into Carry On fics: My Age of Sail AU, based off of the movie, The Blue Lagoon. Have a little bit of eleven year old Baz and Simon:

I spring to my feet and run full tilt into the pond. Simon’s eyes widen comically, and then he’s thrashing inefficiently through the water, trying to escape my wrath.

But that’s his miscalculation. I may be a novice to skin-swimming, but I’m quite accomplished at swimming itself. My father saw to it that I had lessons from an early age. Snow paddles like most of the little kids I saw at Brighton. A whole lot of movement for very little progress.

I catch up to him within seconds, and I’m clamping my hands over his shoulders and shoving him down with all my strength. He knows enough to close his mouth, and bobs up a moment later, blowing out his held breath. Then he laughs and pushes a wave of water towards me with both hands cupped in front of him.

So it’s war then.

From To Heal a Broken Mind (I'm starting the last chapter, whee!)

I see a muscle in his jaw jerk, and then he’s pulling the sunglasses off his face and pinning me with his icy glare. I stiffen. I haven’t seen this Baz in weeks. Have I done so much damage that I’ve set us back to the beginning?

“You, Simon Snow, are not going to do this,” he says, and his voice is hard.

From Westward Son:

Baz tosses another stick in the fire. It’s hard to believe that, within a matter of weeks, we went from sweating our way through each day to shivering under blankets and huddling close to the fire, but it’s our reality now, as evidenced by the foot deep white slush I had to wade through just to get from our wagon to the fire ring. Baz is shivering. He’s always been thin skinned and susceptible to the cold. His Egyptian blood coming through, I think.

Simon’s attention is drawn away from Penny by Baz’s movement, and, without even pausing to think, he stretches his other wing out and wraps it around Baz. Baz sighs after a moment and his shivers cease, and I’m left kind of wishing Simon had a third wing for me.

From Saving Simon Snow

“Baz,” he growls, turning to face me. A faint shiver runs down my spine at his irritated gaze. He’s so beautiful with his blue eyes snapping, his jaw hard and fists clenched. I can’t help it, I’ve always loved riling him up. I’ve wanked to the memory of it sometimes in the shower. “That’s a bloody mansion! How many mansions does your family own?”

I let my lips curl up at him in an almost-sneer. “It’s not a mansion, Snow. Crowley, there are only four bedrooms!”

He glares at me. “And how many rooms that aren’t bedrooms, Baz?” he asks pointedly.

From: Snow Fox

Baz

My parents have been hosting Colonel Tarleton and General Cornwallis all evening, so of course I’m joining in the conversation and listening with everything I have for things of use to Simon. So I’ve got an unfortunate front row seat when one of Tarleton’s men strides in, dragging a bound Pacey Bunce behind him.

The boy is wearing a continental army uniform, the poor fool. Just putting on that blue coat is considered treason.

From the Naked Next (finished by this weekend!)

She giggles, before gulping down a deep breath and forcing her face back into serious lines. “Shep…I mean Love…I mean…”

“You can call me love,” I purr.

I can tell she’s fighting back laughter, but she manages to contain it. “The cure. You’ve got to…please?”

I shake my head as if I can shake the cobwebs out of it. “Right! The cure!”

I let her drag me to sickbay, not least because she’s holding my hand in order to do so.

Tagging for any time in the future you'd like to post something!

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#co/ws/awtwb #wip wednesday #snowbaz #simon snow series #cotta 2021 #carry on through the ages #forced marriage au #canon divergence #Blue Lagoon AU #Age of Sail AU #Star Trek AU #Oregon Trail AU #American Revolution AU #House AU

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myfavoritepeterotoole · 5 months

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

Anthony Quayle as Colonel Harry Brighton

Michel Ray as Farraj

*** https://myfavoritepeterotoole.tumblr.com/post/169073656977/lawrence-of-arabia-1962-directed-by-david-lean

#peter o'toole #anthony quayle #michel ray #lawrence of arabia #lemonade

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braemjeorn · 5 months

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korean fancast of 'my fair lady/pygmalion', starring bae doona and shin hakyun.

because those two are my favourite korean actor/actress

it started with mr shin obv

then i thought abt who could be his eliza

when i tell you i'm not good with the 90s born k-actors

i thought of kim go-eun who was injoo in 작은 아씨들/little women

but she was also mr shin's ex girlfriend - i dont think that's a good idea😅 however possible the pairing may be

so i chose my favourite k-actress hehe

ms bae who looks down-to-earth yet graceful at the same time

like gosh the photshoots she slayed

i mean ms hepburn was 35(ish?) when she did mfl

and i also thought if eliza was a much older woman than in the play or the musical

the closer gap between her and henry will be an interesting take

and ms bae and mr shin are only five years apart

(we need to find a nice old gentleman to play the colonel but later in that...)

kim eui-sung maybe..?

the plot?

as an international admirer of k-culture and korean language student, i offer satoori

(watching "our blues" was the experience in jeju satoori)

"well they won't have me in one of their stores unless i can talk more gracefully."

mr shin have that saccharine, impish way of smiling that will suit the professor

busan instead of brighton

where he bought her a jade ring - that's why the picture is up there

(hope it won't break when he threw it under the sofa)

i wonder if a modern setting will work

on one hand imagine all the snacks they wrangle pronounciations over

big strawberries and grapes (the professor approves of it, on its own or in sponge cakes)

and convenience store snacks (she eats peppero and cup ramen to spite him)

americano and banana milk boxes

soju and plum teas

on the other hand, the gender perception in korea will make the professor more dislikeable?

one can imagine how the post ball scene will go down

higgins and his mouth

(the ball? a charity event between university colleagues maybe?)

and the next morning discussion at his mother's house

absolutely no reason for her to stay in that house, i want to see what arguments he will come up with

also in consideration of freddy eynsford

wi hajoon or kim woobin

i don't know, they both have those sharp looks...

wrong suggestion, we might need softer looking gentlemens

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orlaite · 7 months

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One aspect of Lean's filmmaking in particular I'm soo obessed with are how he has characters enter and leave the story; Ali's entrance into the movie through the mirage and his vanishing into the dark after his goodbye with Lawrence and quarrel with Auda, the panning shot to Colonel Brighton in the gorge, the panning shot that reveals Auda's back when Lawrence is running around in his sherif robes, Pasha's "death", the last shot of Lara's back, "yes, that's Strelnikov", Dr. Aziz rising out of the dust; even Ryan's Daughter which was mid had Major Doryan's introduction (his only good scene). His sense for conveying the most amount of emotion and character through photography and editing instead of relying on spoken word to alert the audience to the importance of what's happening ("people don't remember words, they remember pictures") just makes for the most insane introductions and goodbyes it's sickeninggggg.

#lawrence diligently preparing his bike during the loa credits greatest use of a credit sequence as character introduction ever i must say

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myheadsgonenumb · 5 months

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Bite and Prejudice: An Invitation For Mary

Chapter 19 of my Regency Wolfstar Pride and Prejudice AU is now posted:

It was the second week in May, in which Remus, Lily and Maria McKinnon set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of ——, in Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Dumbledore had sent a carriage and thestrals to meet them (for the floo network was still down and showing no signs of being fixed), they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman’s punctuality, both Dorcas and Mary looking out of a dining-room upstairs. These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.

After welcoming their siblings, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, ‘Is not this nice? is not this an agreeable surprise?’

‘You’ll never guess, Remus,’ Mary said to him, taking a seat beside him and sliding her hand into his own, ‘but I have taken over some of your duties while you’ve been away. Mr. Moody is such a grumpy thing, but he cannot do with his one leg and so - when a banshee took up residence on the rooftop of poor Mr. Bandon, the Grocer’s house - he called to you for help, but you were not there! Dumbledore and Madam Pomfrey were calling on the McKinnons, Sybil was up in her room crystal ball gazing and Dorcas was in bed with a cold. So there was only me. I was half scared out of my wits, I don’t mind telling you, but I gripped my wand and thought of you-’

‘She was very brave,’ Dorcas interjected, ‘everyone says so.’

‘I was brave,’ Mary agreed, nodding her pretty head. ‘And good as well. The banshee was wailing on the roof, and I had the foresight to plug my ears before I went. Then I hit her with Silencio and then blasted her away. Mr. Bandon still died - but he was dying anyway. But all the muggles in the street said I had saved them and that I was every bit as good as my brother.’ She flushed with pride.

Remus squeezed her hand. ‘That’s really good, Mary. I’m proud of you.’

‘Oh, I didn’t stop there. It was my biggest accomplishment but I’ve since cleared a hinkypunk from the marsh, chased the doxies out of Colonel Fubster’s curtains and frozen some ashwinder eggs which were sent to old Mrs. Brown by accident. I’ve been the toast of the regiment for my deeds! And I’ve earned a little money.’

‘Which she used to treat you all with the cold meats,’ Dorcas said.

‘And I have bought this bonnet. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not. I shall pull it to pieces as soon as I get home, and see if I can make it up any better.’

‘You should have saved your money rather than waste it on ugly bonnets,’ Lily told her. But Mary shook her head.

‘Oh, but there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify what one wears this summer, after the ——shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight.’

‘Are they, indeed?’ cried Remus, with the greatest satisfaction.

‘They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want Dumbledore to take us all there for the summer! It would be such a delicious scheme, and I dare say would hardly cost anything at all. Madam Pomfrey would like to go, too, of all things! Only think what a miserable summer else we shall have!’

‘Yes,’ thought Remus; ‘that would be a delightful scheme, indeed, and completely do for us at once. Good Heaven! Brighton and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!’...

Or read from the beginning

#wolfstar #jily #marauders fanfic #pride and prejudice #regency era au #remus lupin #sirius black #lily evans #james potter #bite and prejudice #in want of a werewolf

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mogwai-movie-house · 2 years

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The 100 Best Films of the 1940s

Ranked and rated high-to-low:

1. The Third Man (1949) ★★★★★★★★★★ 2. His Girl Friday (1940) ★★★★★★★★★★ 3. Black Narcissus (1947) ★★★★★★★★★★ 4. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) ★★★★★★★★★★ 5. Dumbo (1941) ★★★★★★★★★★ 6. Casablanca (1942) ★★★★★★★★★★ 7. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) ★★★★★★★★★★ 8. The Maltese Falcon (1941) ★★★★★★★★★★ 9. Citizen Kane (1941) ★★★★★★★★★★ 10. Pinocchio (1940) ★★★★★★★★★★ 11. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) ★★★★★★★★★★ 12. And Then There Were None (1945) ★★★★★★★★★★ 13. The Big Sleep (1946) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 14. Sullivan's Travels (1941) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 15. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 16. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 17. Road to Utopia (1945) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 18. Passport to Pimlico (1949) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 19. Gilda (1946) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 20. The Three Musketeers (1948) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 21. Great Expectations (1946) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 22. The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 23. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 24. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 25. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 26. Saboteur (1942) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 27. Whisky Galore! (1949) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 28. The Thief of Bagdad (1940) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 29. Bambi (1942) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 30. I Married a Witch (1942) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 31. Road to Zanzibar (1941) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 32. Road to Morocco (1942) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 33. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 34. To Be or Not to Be (1942) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 35. On the Town (1949) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 36. The Big Steal (1949) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 37. The Philadelphia Story (1940) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 38. Double Indemnity (1944) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 39. Out of the Past (1947) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 40. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 41. Ball of Fire (1941) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 42. Laura (1944) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 43. Nightmare Alley (1947) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 44. Oliver Twist (1948) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 45. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 46. Dead of Night (1945) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 47. Spellbound (1945) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 48. The Paleface (1948) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 49. Hellzapoppin' (1941) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 50. La Belle et la Bête (1946) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 51. Foreign Correspondent (1940) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 52. The Lady Eve (1941) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 53. My Favourite Wife (1940) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 54. Monsieur Verdoux (1947) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 55. Brief Encounter (1945) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 56. The Palm Beach Story (1942) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 57. Green For Danger (1946) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 58. The Black Book (1949) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 59. Brighton Rock (1948) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 60. Bicycle Thieves (1948) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 61. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 62. The Mark of Zorro (1940) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 63. Panique (1946) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 64. Blithe Spirit (1945) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 65. Hangover Square (1945) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 66. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 67. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 68. The Fallen Idol (1948) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 69. High Sierra (1941) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 70. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 71. The Queen of Spades (1949) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 72. The Razor's Edge (1946) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 73. Lifeboat (1944) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 74. The Eagle with Two Heads (1948) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75. My Darling Clementine (1946) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 76. Meet John Doe (1941) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 77. The Sea Hawk (1940) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 78. Hamlet (1948) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 79. Odd Man Out (1947) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 80. Random Harvest (1942) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 81. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 82. Rebecca (1940) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 83. Le Corbeau (1943) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 84. Mr. Skeffington (1944) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 85. Fantasia (1940) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 86. The Great Dictator (1940) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 87. Rome, Open City (1945) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 88. Obsession (1949) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 89. To Have and Have Not (1944) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 90. Rope (1948) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 91. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 92. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 93. It Happened Tomorrow (1944) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 94. All Through the Night (1942) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 95. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 96. The Big Store (1941) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 97. Ride the Pink Horse (1947) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 98. It Started with Eve (1941) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 99. Portrait of Jennie (1948) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 100. Notorious (1946) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

#film recommendations #classic movies #1940s

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mrpsclassictelevision · 1 year

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📺Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) | Full Movie | Vintage Movies

Lawrence of Arabia the Movie is a 1962 British epic historical drama film. It is based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The story is about the British adventurer and soldier, T E Lawrence, and his experiences in Arabia during the First World War. According to Rotten Tomatoes, "A supremely engrossing film, Lawrence of Arabia makes one forget that it runs nearly three and three-quarter hours: and sends one out haunted and shaken." The film gets an excellent rating of 94%. The Cast Peter O’Toole (T.E. Lawrence) Alec Guinness (Prince Feisal) Omar Sharif (Sherif Ali) Anthony Quinn (Auda Abu Tayi) Anthony Quayle (Colonel Brighton) Jack Hawkins (General Allenby) Claude Rains (Mr. Dryden) José Ferrer (Turkish Bey) Academy Award nominations (* denotes win) Picture* Lead actor (Peter O’Toole) Supporting actor (Omar Sharif) Art direction (color)* Cinematography (color)* Direction* Editing* Music* Sound* Writing Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel: https://cutt.ly/MrPsClassicTV

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whats-in-a-sentence · 7 days

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The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that Mr. Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia.

It was greatly my wish that he should do so as soon as his marriage was fixed on. And I think you will agree with me, in the removal from that corps as highly advisable, both on his account and my niece's. It is Mr. Wickham's intention to go into the regulars; and among his former friends, there are some some who are able and willing to assist him in the army. He had the promise of an ensigncy in General —'s regiment, now quartered in the North. It is an advantage to have it so far from this part of the kingdom. He promises fairly; and I hope among different people, whether they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent. I have written to Colonel Forster, to inform him of our present arrangements, and to request that he will satisfy the various creditors of Mr. Wickham in and near Brighton, with assurances of speedy payment, for which I have pledged myself. And will you give yourself the trouble of carrying similar assurances to his creditors in Meryton, of whom I shall subjoin a list according to his information? He has given in all his debts; I hope at least he has not deceived us. Haggerston has our directions, and all will be completed in a week. They will then join his regiment, unless they are first invited to Longbourn; and I understand from Mrs. Gardiner, that my niece is very desirous of seeing you all before she leaves the South. She is well, and begs to be dutifully remembered to you and your mother.

Yours, &c.

E. Gardiner.

"Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austen

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rhetoricandlogic · 24 days

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THE SCANDALOUS CONFESSIONS OF LYDIA BENNET, WITCH by Melinda Taub

RELEASE DATE: Oct. 3, 2023

secret society exists within the mores and marriage plots of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter must be a witch.” Enter Lydia Bennet, the youngest of the Bennet sisters. Anyone who has read the source material will insist that Lydia is the fifth daughter and thus the maxim shouldn’t apply. But they are not factoring in the three eldest sisters who died shortly after birth. Nor are they aware that Kitty, the second-youngest sister, doesn’t count since she’s a cat Lydia hexed into girlhood without her family remembering. In setting down Lydia’s recollections, Taub breathes new life into classic characters in a novel that is carefully researched and surprisingly layered. Magic comes at a price here, and for every spell a witch casts she must offer up something in return. Lydia’s troubles start when, in order to spare her and Kitty’s lives, she foolishly makes a promise to Lord Wormenheart, a dragon demon. Years later, Wormenheart comes to collect what he is owed, which sends Lydia on a dangerous adventure to Brighton. There she seeks out the Jewel of Propriety with the help of fellow witches Mrs. Harriet Forster, a beautiful but existentially unsatisfied colonel’s wife, and Miss Maria Lambe, daughter of a freed Black woman and a South Seas plantation owner’s son. Lydia’s future husband, George Wickham, who in this telling is Wormenheart’s demon son, lends help and a good deal of mischief. Mostly detailing events from her past, Lydia also describes her current (though far less engaging) predicament, trying to help Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy’s hexed sister, Georgiana. While at times the story drags, Taub’s wit and creativity shines through, making even the Kitty/kitty character endearing where a lesser writer might have made it grating. As our heroine says: “though it is dauntingly long I daresay it is charmingly written.”

A delight for both Austen lovers and fans of magical adventure stories.

#Melinda Taub #The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet Witch #mahreviews #long post

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nicknumber · 8 months

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British writer Anna Caroline Steele, née Wood. Some choice excerpts from her biography in The Feminist Companion to Literature in English:

"She [married] Lt-Colonel Charles S. in 1858 but returned almost immediately to Rivenhall, her parents' home in Essex, avoiding men thereafter."

"She wrote at least six novels and several plays, with themes of seduction and betrayal, and some focus on women's position. Her very successful first novel, Gardenhurst, 1867, suffers from an absurd plot, but is interesting for its concluding implication that the bond between sisters outlives romantic love."

"Lesbia, 1896, concerns an uxorious husband and a frivolous wife, and demonstrates the stifling effect of men's idealization of women."

"In London AS had been a figure in the literary world (several of Trollope's letters are to her), but spent her last years in Brighton, a recluse who fed her pet monkey on anchovy-paste sandwiches."

#black and white photography #victorian era #feminism #anchovy paste sandwiches

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myfavoritepeterotoole · 9 months

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

Jack Hawkins as General Allenby

Anthony Quayle as Colonel Brighton

Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden

*** Lean had Allenby's office set kept as bare as possible, with extremely few props, to create the effect of an "interior desert."

#peter o'toole #jack hawkins #anthony quayle #claude rains #lawrence of arabia #in terior desert

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thegreatwartrauma · 1 year

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The Reality of the Frontlines, where Trauma was Cowardice

More than these squalid living conditions, however, remained the prevailing stigma that any soldier who suffered from shell shock was simply a coward. Personal accounts of soldiers who were forced into repressing this fear highlight that it was the culture of treating anxiety as a liability in war that gave rise to shell shock on a mass scale on the frontlines.

"And I realised this and I didn’t know what to do because I wasn’t going to tell anybody about it and I didn’t tell anybody about it. Fortunately after I should say three days, or it may have been more, but something like that, it disappeared. But was I relieved because I mean you felt, ‘Am I coward or what?’ ... And of course that is what shell shock is, I think. People always thought it was cowardice, you see. Because people got shell shock in a front line trench – perfectly legitimately no doubt – and would start, I suppose they got dithery, but at any rate anything that went off bang alarmed them. And eventually they presumably got home; it was one way of getting home. You see, people if they realised, like I did, that there was something wrong you’d do your best to hide it. Because you’re scared thinking that you’re being a coward." - British Officer F. Jourdain

Source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-shell-shock

Even soldiers who were afraid themselves invalidated their own anxiety as mere cowardice, and perceived their comrades who gave into these fears to be malingering. Systemically, there was an expectation for one to repress their emotions, and psychological illness was viewed to be an illegitimate form of disordered health.

Even hospitals during the Great War had been immensely suspicious of soldiers that had been inflicting injuries on their own to escape being deployed on the frontlines of the war. Not only was this a suspicion shared amongst doctors with baseless claims, there was a dedicated secret project embarked on by Colonel Bruce Seaton to examine over a thousand wounds and injuries to Indian troops being treated at the Kitchener Hospital in Brighton to investigate the possibility of soldiers self-mutilating to avoid fighting on the frontlines. The resources poured into the length of investigation reveals the invalidation of the extreme fear that soldiers faced, and the lack of recognition that self-mutilation in itself is a symptom of mental illness.

Pictured: document written to analyse injuries on the frontlines. Source: https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/wounding-in-world-war-one

However, the desperation to identify patients that were malingering could stem from the extreme overload that hospitals dealt with during the war. At its peak, hospitals were approximately overcrowded by 40% of their maximum capacity on average, which resulted in the seeming requirement to distinguish legitimate illness from what seemed like feigned ailments (BBC, 2010). Nurses and doctors struggled with death, decay and disease daily, and it was simply not within their capacity to grasp the concept of psychological trauma.

To put this statistic in perspective, the US has almost 200,000 practicing therapists as of 2022 (American Psychological Association, 2022) – which provides ample opportunity for medical professionals to focus on their area of specialization. Therefore, the stark contrast in realities that both groups of medical professionals had to grapple with in WWI and today's society needs to be taken into consideration when critiquing the lack of care dedicated to shell shock patients in the past.

Pictured: An overcrowded hospital during WWI.

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