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I imagine it as the Victorian version of a McMansion Hell with a super weird and jagged roofline?

Mr Skimpole tries to talk the debt cops into accepting him signing the poppets into some kind of debt slavery in order to keep himself out of jail, or Coavins (an 'ouse)

Mr. Skimpole calculating the Kalshi odds on the poppets winning it all in Jarndyce and Jarndyce :( I'm so upset by how immediately they roll in with a speculative market value, and how many people are already thinking of buying their hair, goodwill, expectations 🔒

"I envy you your power of doing what you do. I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it."

Wikipedia article about how everyone knew who Skimpole was supposed to be. I love gk chesterton's nuclear take on the matter

I guessed from this that Skimpole was the mean caricature of Hans Christian Andersen. But he is the mean caricature of Leigh Hunt, a different literary figure it seems! 🔒

Description of the "delightfully irregular" noneuclidean geometries of Bleak House as experienced by the poppets

Bleak _house_ of leaves 🔒

Thinking about this today as we watch Krook literally stuffing his floor with it!

Krook's horrible hoarding shop, shadow twin of Chancery. I'm so excited about the windows literally blocked out by bottles and glass

Imagining Mr. Krook's absolutely amazing eBay profile. "Buy it Now" button consistently disabled

Loving that Esther is canonically Too Pure to Understand Foreshadowing 🔒

Vivian <3333 thank you!!!

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Have you read The Passion of New Eve? Disappointing in the obvious ways but also breathtaking. I think about the part where Eve is living with the awful desert poet Zero and his seven cis wives like once a week

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Oh shit you guys it's the pub day for the paperback of A/S/L!! Copies have been a lil scarce (since it ahem sold through two 💪 hardcover 💪 printings 😇 😈 ❤️) so if you have been looking for it with no luck now is your chance okay!!!

January 12, 2027! Get ready 🔥 🚗 🔎

I vividly remember my Texas childhood friend's dad arguing with me in 2004 over bush v Kerry: that whether or not the war in Iraq was justified for other reasons, we needed to have troops stationed in the Middle East to support Jesus at Armageddon, so he was voting Bush. Super surreal moment.

Also very sad!! Another time!

sad I can’t make it in person but look at this incredible line up with @jeannethornton.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social

I got curious about whether the Borrioboola-gha stuff was Just Racism or what the actual history maybe was? Context I found on British colonial Nigeria and the link to 🔒 www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/Op...

Dire super bowl ad showing Mrs. Jellyby using AI to automate fundraising for her coffee plantation. No one's head caught in railing. No marshy smell. No weeping anamneunsis daughter no despair husband no raw cod. Chancery? Sorted. Conversation Kenge? A chatbot. Smile: "Not Bleak House Anymore."🔒

I Saw the TV Glow Screenplay Book Sometimes The Pink Opaque feels more real than real life. Book 016 in the A24 Screenplay Collection includes an introduction by Atom Egoyan, essays by Jeanne Thornton and Eva Victor, an excerpt from T...

guys i have an exciting preorder announcement to make at last <3 this was such a Kick and an Honor to contribute to; thank you a24 for trusting this soul

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Maybe it will help me if I imagine her as Data: A diffident robot created by brutal Victorian parenting, inserted by Dickens+Chancery into the world of Bleak House merely to bear witness, appeal, and Appreciate. (and who sometimes says really really weird stuff--"my pet--I cannot help writing it!")

Why Esther is hard for me (1) she feels constructed to be a maximally sympathetic Novel Character: she underrates herself, overrates others, is loved for this
(2) This also describes how "angel of the house" works
(3) Yet it is *actually nice* to see the kid who buried her doll get nice things?? 🔒

Esther denies she's crying, so the mysterious coach passenger in the fur hat reaches over to wipe her face with his giant fur sleeve in order to show her the tears. Alarmingly empirical to imagine! Shortly he offers her a plum cake and an imported foie gras pie from ~france~, which he throws out the window rather than eat. I have to imagine it was so awkward to be in a stagecoach with randos back in the day??

Wiping your tears in order to show them to you: Imagine someone actually doing this! This commitment to empiricism from this rando stagecoach passenger 🔒

Esther, who yearns to be good and earnestly wishes for this with her doll for so very many words and pages. Every time I bounce from this book it is during an Esther Chapter

:long, resigned sigh, then looking up with tight fixed smile:

hello, esther 🔒

lifehack: take an undirected walk for hours

oh cool, a real mitt romney type. folks love that

"but how can i be a workaholic if i'm failing to finish things or get back to people all the time?" bitch you are not a substance abuser because you have the power to do all the cocaine

workaholics anonymous: 20 question self assessment

whoa guys i got a perfect score