#william makepeace thackeray

[ladysansa]

Alicent Hightower, Helaena, Aemond, and Aegon Targaryen, House of the Dragon, 1x09 // Nayyirah Waheed, Salt // William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair // Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

#alicent hightower #aegon ii targaryen #helaena targaryen #aemond targaryen #hotd #hotdedit #house of the dragon #nayyirah waheed #william makepeace thackeray #vanity fair #annie ernaux #i remain in darkness #web weaving #post*

[therealdostoevsky]

i don't want to study for school i want to study literature and i want to talk to authors through space and time

#bookblr #litblr #dark academia #dark academia books #books #donna tartt #books and literature #classic lit #classic literature #lit #fyodor dostoevsky #friedrich nietzsche #haruki murakami #khaled hosseini #ottessa moshfegh #taylor jenkins reid #leo tolstoy #franz kafka #osamu dazai #william makepeace thackeray #shakespeare #charles dickens #victor hugo #edgar allan poe #mary shelley #agatha christie #emily bronte #jane austen

[didanagy]

VANITY FAIR (2004)

dir. mira nair

#vanity fair 2004 #william makepeace thackeray #costume drama #period drama #perioddramaedit #perioddramagif #becky sharp #amelia sedley #william dobbin #joseph sedley #reese witherspoon #romola garai #rhys ifans #tony maudsley #my gifs #mine

[hypergraphiacreads]

#reading #books #marginalia #annotations #booklover #bookworm #booklr #studybrl #studylr #annotating books #vanity fair #william makepeace thackeray

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

#thackeray #william makepeace thackeray #quote #pipe smoking #someker #smoking #tobacco #wisdom #philosopher #conversation #leslie howard

[ancientsstudies]

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

#william makepeace thackeray #vanity #fair #vanity fair #quotes #light literature #literature #alternative #aesthetic #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #dark #dark aesthetic #aestheitcs #art #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia #girl photos #photo #photoshoot #photography

[gennsoup]

The siren disappears and dives below, down among the dead men, the water of course grows turbid over her, and it is labour lost to look into it ever so curiously. They look pretty enough when they sit upon a rock, twanging their harps and combing their hair, and sing, and beckon to you to come and hold the looking-glass; but when they sink into their native element, depend on it those mermaids are about no good, and we had best not examine the fiendish marine cannibals, revelling and feasting on their wretched picked victims.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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[attemptedvictorian]

On a scale of Agnes Grey to Rebecca Sharp to Jane Fairfax to Jane Eyre how’s your governessing going?

#being a governess is quite the profession according to literature #agnes grey #vanity fair #rebecca sharp #jane eyre #emma #jane austen #anne bronte #william makepeace thackeray #charlotte bronte #charlotte brontë #classic literature #classics #literature #books

[indeedgoodman]

#art #luxury #fyp #william makepeace thackeray #quotes #feelings #life quotes #words #literature #poetry quotes #indeedgoodman

[of-fear-and-love]

Interiors from Barry Lyndon (1975)

#barry lyndon #1975 #1970s film #70s movies #william makepeace thackeray #stanley kubrick #interiors #set design #historical costuming #movie sets

[waiting-eyez]

There are a thousand thoughts lying

within a man that he does not know

till he takes up a pen to write.

(William Makepeace Thackeray)

#William Makepeace Thackeray

[ulrichgebert]

Die Verfilmung von William Makepeace Thackerays Roman mit dem cleveren Titel Vanity Fair ist schwungvoller geraten als die seines Romans The Luck of Barry Lyndon, mäandert aber trotz prächtigster Roben, charmanter Besetzung und unerwarteter Bollywood-Einlagen ob all des gesellschaftlichen Auf- und Abs doch arg dahin.

#Vanity Fair #Reese Witherspoon #Bob Hoskins #James Purefoy #Jonathan Rhys Meyers #Romola Garai #Rhys Ifans #Eileen Atkins #Gabriel Byrne #Jim Broadbent #Douglas Hodge #Tom Sturridge #Film gesehen #Mira Nair #William Makepeace Thackeray

[didanagy]

VANITY FAIR (2004)

dir. mira nair

#vanity fair 2004 #costume drama #period drama #perioddramaedit #perioddramagif #long post #william makepeace thackeray #becky sharp #amelia sedley #rawdon crawley #george osborne #reese witherspoon #romola garai #james purefoy #jonathan rhys meyers #my gifs #mine

[novlr]

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.” ― William Makepeace Thackeray

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[petermorwood]

Back-Carry Before Conan

Or, BCBC.

For a long time I thought “Conan The Barbarian” (1982) was the first pop-culture appearance of BC.

NB, regardless of improbable contraptions made to “prove” things, no sword carried across the back in this movie is ever drawn from that position; in fact there’s a 3-second sequence devoted entirely to showing Conan getting his sword off his back and securing it at his waist before drawing it.

See it here, starting at 2:40.

In the next section of this scene, Valeria presumably does the same thing; at 0:27 her sword’s across her back, then there’s a brief cutaway to Subotai, and when we’re back with Valeria at 0:30 she’s got the sword at her waist and is drawing it from there.

Incidentally, though there’s often a brief scraping sound as swords leave scabbards, I can’t recall any examples of the infamous exaggerated “schinngg” noise, so I guess that cliché must have developed later.

*****

Then a few days ago, while tidying bookshelves, I found my long-lost copy of Thackeray’s mock-heroic Fireside Pantomine “The Rose and the Ring” (1854). Mine is the 1967 edition, evidently acquired from somewhere at a bargain price...

...and features Thackeray's own illustrations, including this one:

This is definitely back-CARRY, because an over-the-shoulder DRAW is neither intended nor possible. Here’s why...

Notice there’s no scabbard. However, there’s presumably a matching loop or point-cover for the other end, so I can visualise making it work like this:

Grab the sword left-handed and pull the whole arrangement, strap and all, forward and round until the hilt reaches your right hand. Now support the weight of the sword to let the strap go slack, and slide the hilt-loop backwards and off. Without it, there’s no tension to hold the other loop or point-cover in place and it will fall away, leaving the sword ready for business.

I’m pretty sure Thackeray didn’t think through his illustration in that much detail, so it may (?) have been based on contemporary rifle drill; the Crimean War was under way while he was writing, so he’d probably seen troops on parade.

*****

"The Rose and the Ring” is a Satirical Romantick (don’t forget the ’k’) Phantasy, set in a period best described as “Sometime Back Then”, and the periods represented by costumes in the illustrations are... Variable.

King Padella - sorry, that should be KING PADELLA - is wearing armour from 1160-ish. However, Prince Giglio, mentioned at the bottom of the page, looks a bit different.

Here he is, looking like he’s in the American Civil War (1860-ish - which is a good trick since the book was written and illustrated several years before it)...

...while the guards look like soldiers from the Seven Years War (1760-ish) and the prisoner looks like who knows what...

However, here’s Giglio again, in Theatrical Romantick Costume of no particular date...

...and again, now looking vaguely like Charles I as painted by Van Dyke (1640-ish)...

...and finally something which leaves me at a loss about what period it represents. Maybe “When Knights Were Bowled���, if that cannon-ball means anything...

“The Rose and the Ring” is a silly, and yet (in the right mood) entertaining story, and is also a demonstration of how to make Purple Prose earn its keep, since several characters speak not unlike Minette and the other affronted-Victorian-children cats who occasionally appear on Tumblr.

Whether this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing depends on the reader...

There are several on-line versions: Internet Archive has a well-illustrated one here.

*****

And I still wonder what he’d seen or read to make him draw the carry-strap on that sword the way he did...

#back-carry #swords as luggage #the rose and the ring #mock-heroic #purple prose #william makepeace thackeray

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair  

#william makepeace thackeray #thackeray #quote #author #writer #literature #vanity fair #beauty #wisdom #femme #statue #minerva #judging on appearances