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Agony of Parting - Oneshot

Pairing: Agent Whiskey/Jack Daniels x female reader

Warnings: fluff, cussing, angst

Requested?: Yes by @iamwarrenspeace - Agent Whiskey survives Cambodia and returns to the States as a criminal. He’s imprisoned and visited by his fiancée. She’s in turmoil as she learns of Jack’s actions but she has to decide what’s best because of the secret she’s holding onto.

Quote: “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” - George Eliot

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The day Jack proposed was the happiest day of your life.

He had told you to dress up to the nines because he was taking you to dinner. You had recalled it wasn’t an anniversary, and it wasn’t your birthday or special holiday.

“Why Jack?” You had asked, pestering him for an answer.

He had smiled and kissed you soundly, “do I need a reason to take my favorite girl out?”

You had raised an eyebrow but shook your head.

“Good darlin’,” he had drawled in his Texan accent, “now please dress up for this evening. I want to treat you to a night out on the town while we’re in New York City.”

You had watched him leave for the office – the New York City headquarters for Statesman, a private intelligence agency company for the United States.

Jack had told you early on in your relationship what he did, and that he would be transferred to whichever city he was needed in. You had reluctantly accepted his job being first and foremost to him, and you knew you were second when it came to his career. But when he returned home and ravaged your body endlessly for days, you felt like you had won first place.

Then only a few months ago he had been transferred to N.Y.C. He had asked you to come along too, so you and him could enjoy the city together. You didn’t hesitate to tell him yes. You had been itching to see the expansive city since you had never left the sleepy little town of Denver – your home and where you had met Jack.

Jack had greeted you at seven o’clock on the dot. He was wearing a white shirt, black tie, and dark blue jeans. He was sans cowboy hat which meant his brown hair was on display for the world to see – he rarely left the apartment you two shared without the black Stetson.

He held out a bouquet of long stem red roses which you took from him. You inhaled their lovely scent.

“You didn’t have to Jack,” you had smiled as you grabbed a vase, added water then the bouquet.

“But I did,” Jack had drawled.

His eyes swept over your body. He whistled low then wrapped his arms around you. He kissed your neck and moaned deeply.

“You look beautiful Y/N,” Jack had whispered, “glad you’re mine.”

You had turned his arms and looked into his eyes, “we could stay here Jack.”

Jack had cupped your cheek, stroked your skin then dipped his head and brushed his lips against yours softly. His mustache ticking your skin gently. He pulled faintly back then swept a thumb over your lips.

“I promise when we return you won’t be able to keep your hands off me,” he had whispered with an indication of lust.

You had smirked, “I can’t keep my hands off you now.”

Jack had wrapped an arm around you and ran it up and down your back slowly, “patience darlin’.”

You and Jack had left your shared apartment minutes later. He escorted you to a waiting sleek black town car where it drove the two of you to a restaurant near the Brooklyn Bridge.

You had forgotten the name by the time dessert came out and the piano began playing “When a Man Loves a Woman” because shortly after the waiter placed the decadent chocolate cake on the table and you had taken the first bite, Jack grabbed your hand and reached into his jacket.

“Y/N,” Jack had drawled your name out slowly.

You had looked at him with seriousness and put your fork down.

Jack had cleared his throat, then scooted his chair back and dropped to one knee beside the table.

Your heart had quickened inside of your chest as your eyes glued themselves to Jack’s kneeling form.

“Y/N,” Jack had repeated with nervousness in his voice, “you make me the happiest man in the world. The happiest cowboy in the universe. You are my sunrise, my sunset. You are the one I want to wake up to every mornin’ for the rest of my life, you’re the one I want to come home to and fall asleep next to for forever. You are my world, my universe. Will you marry me?”

You knew you loved Jack. He was your world and universe in return, but deep down you wondered about his career. It would always come first, he loved doing the spy thing, as you had teasingly called it on occasion when the job came first.

Then there was his deceased wife. He had said he was over her; he had moved on. He loved you. But there were times you wondered if you’d ever be good enough for Jack because her memory seemed to cloud and overshadow Jack’s love for you. You felt he wasn’t a hundred percent invested in the relationship he had with you.

Yet you loved Jack. It took time for you to love the man because of his job but you grew to accept him, and his career, then you grew to love him. If he didn’t love you, he wouldn’t be on one knee in front of you, in front of other people asking for your hand in marriage.

You had smiled and reached over, cupping his cheek. “Nothing would make me happier than to marry you Jack.”

Jack had released the breath he had been holding for what seemed to be eternity. He had taken the ring out of the box, slid it on your finger then pulled you into his arms.

You had embraced him tightly in return, never wanting to let go.

When the two of you had returned to the apartment you couldn’t keep your hands off one another as you made love to one another deep into the night and through the morning light.

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Now you look down at the pregnancy test in your hand. The two pink lines are vibrant on the display as you look between the pregnancy test, the mirror, and the other four tests laying on the counter. All tests confirming the same thing – you are pregnant.

You place the plastic stick on the counter and walk into the bedroom. Its been only you for the past week or so because Jack had been called to help the Kingsman – the British version of Statesman.

“They need my help darlin’,” Jack had remarked when he informed you of the news.

You knew his work, knew his job and what it entailed. You knew things like this would happen yet part of you wondered if Jack thought you’d be upset about him placing the job first causing you to leave him.

You had smiled at him, “I know Jack. I always ask that you come back to me.”

Jack had smiled lopsidedly, “I will.”

He had brushed his lips against yours. He had pulled back to look into your eyes then pulled you in for a deeper kiss.

You had returned the deep kiss by looping your arms around his neck and running your fingers along the ends of his hair.

“I love you Y/N,” Jack had drawled after pulling away breathlessly.

“I love you Jack,” you had whispered in return.

Days later you realized you were late and began to panic.

Maybe it’s a fluke, you had thought. It’ll be here within a day or so.

Two more days passed, and you had hurriedly gone to the nearest pharmacy buying one of each of the five pregnancy tests on the shelf. You took them back home and here you are staring down at them.

You run your hands over your stomach. You and Jack have created another life. You hadn’t planned on getting pregnant this soon. You two had talked about children after the wedding, and after returning to Kentucky, or even going back home to Denver. Jack had only you. Yet he wanted to make sure you were with and around family if children came into the picture because he wanted you to have their support even though he knew you were strong enough to handle whatever life decided to throw your way.

Your cell phone rings, breaking the quietness throughout the apartment. You run out to the bedroom and pick it up.

“Hello? Jack?”

“Y/N?”

It’s not Jack. It’s a woman. “Um, yes? Who is this?”

“My name is Ginger. I work with Jack. He’s listed you as your emergency contact…”

Your heart sinks inside of your chest.

No, is all you can think as you grasp the phone tightly and sink to the floor.

“He can’t be dead…,” is all you whisper as you think of the life growing inside of you.

You remember his deceased wife. The life she was carrying inside of her. The life you knew Jack was eagerly ready to hold and raise with her. Then she had been at the wrong place at the wrong time. She died because of drug users, and you knew Jack didn’t care much for those kind of people for taking away her and his unborn child.

“Jack’s not dead,” she remarks. “I, uh, I…he’s alive.”

“If he’s concerned about me having the blue rash, he doesn’t need to concern himself. I am fine.” We are fine. “I don’t need special treatment for the antidote.”

“I’m glad to hear you are okay,” Ginger pauses, “I’m calling because Jack’s coming back as a prisoner.”

“Prisoner?” Your focus snaps back to the call, and the woman on the other end. “What are you talking about?”

“I can’t give specific details over the phone. It’s best you come down to Kentucky and meet with his boss. He’ll give a more thorough explanation when you arrive. He has to explain what happened to you.”

“But I don’t know…”

“We are sending a person to your apartment at 10 tomorrow morning. Be ready to go, pack a few things. Everything will be explained when you get here.”

The following afternoon you are escorted to an enormous office in the middle of nowhere Kentucky inside the Statesman headquarters.

An elderly gentleman smiles and stands from his spot at an oblong table. He holds out his hand as he approaches you.

“Miss Y/L/N,” his voice is weathered, “I’m Champ.”

You smile in return as you shake his hand. “Please call me Y/N.”

Champ nods curtly, withdraws his hand and points back towards the table. “Please have a seat. I’d like to tell you what I am able to about Jack.”

You follow him and take a seat in one of the green leather chairs. Your eyes are on Champ as he takes a seat back at the head of the table.

You heart beats rapidly inside of your chest. You wonder what Jack has done to warrant this type of meeting with his boss. You try to calm yourself as you take in the smell of worn leather and cigar smoke.

“We did not know Jack had a hidden agenda to keep the antidote from the world’s population until two men from Kingsman informed us of Jack’s betrayal when they returned him to us about forty-eight hours ago,” Champ pauses as he temples his fingers, “I had Ginger call you because you deserved to know. Jack had informed us you and him becoming engaged a few months ago and you are considered his family. She also informed me you needed to know because you are the only person he has outside of Kingsman.”

You already knew you were all he had. Jack didn’t have no one until you walked into his life one snowy night on the outskirts of Denver, in some rundown bar. You needed help with your car, and he was the first, and only person, who offered to help you.

Champ clears his throat, “Jack is now a prisoner under Statesman bylaws. He is in our facility with a few other prisoners. You are welcome to see him as often as you like.”

“How long?” You squeak out. “How long is he going to be in prison?”

Champ shrugs his shoulders, “his case has not reached our presiding authority yet. It could be anywhere from a year, ten, maybe fifteen. It depends on his story and how the presiding authority of Statesman decides to rule.”

You look down at your stomach. You close your eyes, keeping the tears in. Your hormones are on overdrive and you don’t need to cry in front of the man who told you Jack could be in prison until the child inside of you is a teenager.

Your mind flashing through of what memories Jack would miss – birth, changing diapers, first steps, first words, all the first days of school.

Your mind flashes at the memory of how Jack lost his previous wife. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Died in the crosshairs of gunfire because of meth heads. You knew Jack didn’t care for them. After the phone call from Ginger, those thoughts plagued you until sleep finally consumed you.

You knew deep down he’d resort to doing something drastic if it came down to not giving an antidote to someone who does drugs.

Maybe you could have done more for Jack.

Loved him more? You loved Jack with all your heart and soul.

Convinced him he was the one for you? You did as much as you could. Tried to make him see you were the person standing in front of him and not the ghost of his past. The ghost he couldn’t have. The ghost who always haunted the relationship you had with Jack.

You now come to terms with knowing Jack still had an unyielding grasp on the past, on his deceased wife, on his unborn child. He had done what he did because his dead wife and unborn child were still forefront and center in his life. Not you.

“Y/N?” Champ questions as he looks at you. His voice breaking the silence.

You look at him, “yes?”

“Would you like to see Jack today?”

“I, uh, I don’t know,” you reply. You didn’t know how soon you wanted to see him because you feel like this might be your fault.

Were you to blame for Jack’s actions? The thought branding itself to your mind.

You weren’t good enough; he didn’t love you completely. You were a second fiddle to the true love of his life and their unborn child.

“I, uh, I need to go,” you utter as you stand. You need air; you need to think.

Champ hurriedly stands as well, “I understand. You may stay at our accommodations while visiting Jack. We’ll offer this much courtesy to you since the prison is on our grounds. Just let the front desk staff know when you are ready.”

You nod and turn to leave, wiping the tears falling from your eyes.

Minutes later you crash onto the bed in your hotel room, sobbing from the heartache you are experiencing.

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The next day you are sitting in an open area with tables and chairs inside the Statesman prison facility. It’s deprived of all other people.

You had your bags packed, ready to go after this talk with Jack. You wanted to go home, your home. You were going back to Denver to be with family and raise the child – alone.

A metal door opens and in walks a guard, Jack’s behind him. He’s wearing a blue jumpsuit with his hands cuffed in front of him. His hair is faintly unruly and stubble has grown on his cheeks and jawline.

“Could you please take these off so I may hug my fiancée?” Jack pleads with the guard.

The guard looks between you and Jack. He sighs heavily.

“Don’t try anything besides the hug Daniels.”

“Thank you,” Jack drawls as his hands are uncuffed.

You stand and smile weakly as Jack makes his way to you and embraces you tightly. You wrap your arms around him tightly in return. Taking in this embrace because it’ll be the last one.

You inhale Jack’s smell. Your nose detects the cologne he always wears. A smell you won’t smell again after today. Yet will also remain etched into your memories.

Jack pulls faintly and looks into your eyes. He sweeps his mouth against your lips.

“Daniels!” The guard huffs.

Jack grins at you and winks.

“Scoundrel,” you laugh.

Jack motions to the table then both of you sit facing one another. He grabs your hands and takes them into his. His skin is rough yet warm. His hands engulf yours, they always do.

“I’m glad they called you. I need you Y/N. I’ve been pacing the floor and pounding my head against the walls; waiting for them to open my door and tell me you are here.” Jack remarks as he squeezes your hands.

You squeeze them back, “Jack.”

Jack smiles lopsidedly, “darlin’. My Y/N.”

“You didn’t want the world to get the antidote?” You don’t hold back on asking him point blank. You need to know why Jack betrayed his job by not wanting to give the world what it desperately needed.

Jack looks down, hiding his eyes.

You remove your hands slowly from his. “The world was in need Jack and you choose to be selfish.”

Jack looks at you. His eyes conveying hurt and anger. “Drug users shouldn’t be given anything!”

“People were dying Jack. Your job was to help them, not help yourself,” you have to keep your emotions in check. You need to remain calm and collected because you know what you’re going to do at the end of this conversation, “maybe if I had been more, could have done more… you would’ve loved me like your first wife and not resorted to what you did!”

“I do love you!” Jack stammers.

“Apparently not enough! You don’t love me enough to think of me before deicing to do what you did? Your fiancée? The woman you are to marry!”

“I love you Y/N,” Jack grounds out, “you are the love of my life.”

“She was the love of your life! She was carrying your child! You two were to be a family!” You stand calmly. “I am done being second fiddle to her Jack. She is gone, and I am the one who’s here. Well was here, for you.” Remain strong. For yourself, for the baby. “I love…no! I loved you!” No tears. Remain calm. “I am done Jack. We are. Done.” You slip off the ring and place it on the table. “I hope you find someone who can break through the walls you have built around your heart because I apparently didn’t break them since you were foolish to do something so reckless, so stupid.”

Jack stands and reaches for you.

You step out of his reach, “goodbye Jack.”

Is she right?, Jack thinks, she was. Is.

Jack sighs heavily in frustration and rubs his face. He had been comparing you to Lela, and he shouldn’t have been. He should’ve let Lela go the moment you had walked into his life, but he hadn’t because Lela was the love of his life. Then you had walked into it, and everything changed.

Fuck, Jack thinks. He knows he has majorly fucked up everything.

Jack’s silence greets your ears which makes you turn on your heel and leave Jack standing in disbelief and heartache. Leaving him in the dark about the baby you carry inside of you.

Today is the saddest day of your life.

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Allusion

Allusion Definition

Allusion can be defined as a casual reference to a person or a thing which adds extra meaning to the neighboring context. In other words, merely saying “The Good Samaritan is a character in a parable told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke” is not an allusion—it is merely a straightforward reference. However, it is an allusion when, for example, Julia says to Edward in T.S Eliot’s comedy The Cocktail Party (I.2.49-50): “Don’t you realise how lucky you are/ To have two Good Samaritans?”

Allusions are, by definition, indirect. That means that they are never explicitly clarified by the author and that they work pretty much like riddles: it is left to the reader to both identify them and make the connection to a previous text. However, sometimes this process can prove especially tricky.

For example, Alexander Pope’s verses are densely allusive, filled with both classical and topical references that can’t be understood without some proper help from a specialized scholar. Moreover, modernist poets such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound consciously strove to enrich their writings with obscure, esoteric and personal allusions, the understanding of which is frequently essential to understanding the meaning of the works as a whole.

In some cases, allusions may even have a structural significance: James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, for example, is modeled after Homer’s epic Odyssey and can’t be sufficiently made sense of without it.

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Allusion Examples

Allusion in a Sentence

Example #1: Achilles’ Heel

Divorce is the Achilles’ heel of marriage.

– George Bernard Shaw, Letters (July 2, 1965)

According to a story in Greek mythology, in an attempt to make her son immortal, the sea nymph Thetis washed the baby Achilles in the waters of the infernal river Styx. However, as she was doing this, she held him by his heel, which remained the only vulnerable place on her son’s body. This would prove a fatal mistake, since, late in the Trojan War, an arrow fired by the Trojan prince Paris and guided by Apollo, pierced through the heel of Achilles, killing the great Achaean hero on the spot. In the 19th century, the phrase “Achilles’ heel” was first used to mean a weak spot in spite of overall strength—and George Bernard Shaw wittily plays with this meaning in his clever remark above.

Example #2: Janus

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship” (1841)

Janus was an ancient Roman deity, worshipped as a guardian of doors and gates, and as a god of transitions, beginnings and endings. He was depicted as having two faces—one looking back and another forward—and this is what Ralph Waldo Emerson alludes to in the sentences above, describing a friend as someone who is both an indelible part of one’s past and an architect of his or her future.

Example #3: Panglossian

Many searchers for life beyond Earth seem to be possessed of an almost Panglossian optimism, and since their speculations include the entire universe, their optimism might seem justified.

– Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, November 2, 2000

Dr. Pangloss is a character in Voltaire’s 1759 satirical masterpiece Candide. A professor of “metaphysico-theologo-cosmoronology” he is a self-proclaimed optimist who firmly believes that we are living in “the best of all possible worlds” and that “all is for the best.” He remains convinced in the veracity of his beliefs even after countless misfortunes, which cost him an eye and an ear due to syphilis, and, at one point, even his freedom. Because of this, when someone is Panglossian, he or she is overly—and naively—optimistic.

(Further Reading: Top 10 Examples of Allusion in a Sentence)

Allusion in Poetry

Example #1: Dead Sea Fruits

May Life’s unblessed cup for him Be drugg’d with treacheries to the brim, With hopes that but allure to fly, With joys that vanish while he sips, Like Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips!

– Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817)

A Dead Sea fruit—sometimes also called a Sodom apple—is, according to the legend, a tempting fruit which dissolves into smoke and ashes once touched. Thomas Moore must have considered the allusion somewhat obscure when he wrote the above stanza in 1817 because he decided to annotate it himself, quoting a sentence by French explorer Jean de Thévenot as an explanation: “They say that there are apple-trees upon the sides of this sea, which bear very lovely fruit, but within are full of ashes.” A Dead Sea fruit is now used as an allusion to anything which may look promising at first but ultimately brings disappointment and discontent.

Example #2: Gehenna

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

– Rudyard Kipling, “The Winners” (1890)

Gehenna—or, literally translated, the “Valley of (the Son of) Hinnom”—is a place in Jerusalem, where, according to the Old Testament, worshippers of the pagan gods Baal and Moloch sacrificed their children by fire: “They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal” (Jeremiah 19:5). In time, the term came to symbolize Hell itself, so much so that the name given to Hell in the Quran, Jahannam, is a direct derivation of Gehenna. Additionally, the phrase “go to Gehenna” can be used as a more esoteric alternative to the everyday expression “go to hell.”

Example #3: The Mad Hatter

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.

– T. S. Eliot, “The Naming of Cats” 1-4 (1939)

As almost everybody knows, the Mad Hatter is a character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and the eccentric host of one of the craziest tea parties you can ever imagine, also attended by the March Hare and the Dormouse. However, the phrases “mad as a hatter” and “mad as a (March) hare” predate Carroll’s book. According to OED, the first of these two expressions may refer to “the effects of mercury poisoning formerly suffered by hat-makers as a result of the use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats.” Ultimately, however, it’s irrelevant which of these sources is alluded to by T.S. Eliot in the stanza above—the meaning is immediately clear either way.

Example #4: Paris · Menelaus · Troy

I will be Paris and, for love of thee, Instead of Troy shall Wittenberg be sacked; And I will combat with weak Menelaus And wear thy colours on my plumed crest.

– Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus V.1.98-101 (1592)

This is what Doctor Faustus says to a summoned infernal spirit who has assumed the shape of Helen in the fifth act of Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy. The wife of Menelaus, Helen was a Spartan princess who was abducted by the Trojan prince, Paris—an event which triggered the Trojan War. Doctor Faustus reimagines himself as Helen’s lover and, in a trance, rewrites parts of the original story: in Homer’s Iliad, it is Paris who is unskilled and cowardly, and Menelaus an epitome of bravery. A few verses above this passage, Marlowe describes Helen’s face as one “that launch’d a thousand ships,/ And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?,” a phrase which has been alluded to numerous times ever since.

Example #5: The Trojan War · Helen and Clytemnestra

A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.

– William Butler Yeats, “Leda and the Swan” 9-11 (1923)

As you can read in the example above, Yeats finds an even more implicit way to allude to some of the people and events Christopher Marlowe calls into mind in Doctor Faustus. His sonnet “Leda and the Swan” vividly describes how Zeus, disguised as a swan, rapes Leda, the Queen of Sparta. From this union, Helen and Clytemnestra were subsequently born, the former responsible for the Trojan War (“the broken wall, the burning roof and tower”) and the latter the murderer of the Achaean leader (“And Agamemnon dead”). Thus, the three verses above hide allusions within allusions: by referring to the consequences (the Trojan War and the death of Agamemnon), Yeats actually alludes to the causes (Helen and Clytemnestra) without even using their names.

(Further Reading: Top 10 Examples of Allusion in Poetry)

Allusion in Literature

Example #1: Gargantua

You must borrow me Gargantua’s mouth first. ‘Tis a word too great for any mouth of this age’s size.

– William Shakespeare, As You Like It III.2.221 (1599)

This is what Celia replies to Rosalind in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, As You Like It, after the latter asks to answer her “in one word” a host of Orlando-related questions. (“What did he when thou saw’st him? What said he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he? How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou see him again?”) The meaning of the sentence is clear as it is, but it becomes even more palpable once you learn that Gargantua is a giant, the title protagonist in François Rabelais’ satirical pentalogy of novels, The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel.

Example #2: Methuselah

Now, you are my witness, Miss Summerson, I say I don’t care—but if he was to come to our house with his great, shining, lumpy forehead night after night till he was as old as Methuselah, I wouldn’t have anything to say to him.

– Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)

The son of Enoch and the grandfather of Noah, Methuselah is the oldest man mentioned in the Bible; Genesis 5:27 claims that he lived to be 969 years. Consequently, the word Methuselah is now almost synonymous with longevity, and is often used to mean “extremely aged” or “ancient.” The phrase “as old as Methuselah” is also regularly used.

Example #3: Procrustean Bed

‘The measures, then,’ he continued, ‘were good in their kind, and well executed; their defect lay in their being inapplicable to the case, and to the man. A certain set of highly ingenious resources are, with the Prefect, a sort of Procrustean bed, to which he forcibly adapts his designs. But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow, for the matter in hand; and many a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he.

– Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter” (1845)

Procrustes—literally, “The Stretcher”—was a street bandit in Greek mythology famous for the eccentricity of his modus operandi. Namely, he first invited travelers to lie on an iron bed he held in his possession, and, then, in an attempt to force them to fit the length of the bed, he either stretched them (if they were short) or cut off their legs (if they were longer than his bed). The adjective “procrustean” refers to this act, and means enforcing conformity through ruthless measures which disregard individual differences.

(Further Reading: Top 10 Allusion Examples in Literature)

Songs with Assonance

Example #1: The Cure, Killing an Arab (1979)

Standing on the beach With a gun in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring down the barrel At the Arab on the ground I can see his open mouth But I hear no sound

I’m alive I’m dead I’m the stranger Killing an Arab

Released a few days before the end of 1978, Killing an Arab was the controversial debut single of The Cure. As Robert Smith explains in a 1991 interview, the song “is a short poetic attempt at condensing [his] impression of the key moments in The Stranger by Albert Camus”—explicitly referenced in the chorus quoted above. However, the allusion was lost to many, leading to many accusations that Killing an Arab is a racist song which promotes violence against Arabs. As a result of the hostile response, The Cure rarely play the song even today; and when they do, they modify the last verse of the chorus to either “Killing another” or “Killing an Ahab.” And yes—the latter is another example of literary allusion!

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Example #2: Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah (1984)

Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya She tied you to the kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

The second stanza of Leonard Cohen’s most covered song, Hallelujah, skillfully merges two biblical accounts. In the first three verses, it alludes to the story of David and Bathsheba, and the moment the Jewish king falls in love with the wife of Uriah the Hittite: “One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful” (2 Samuel 11:2). Furthermore, the second three verses refer to the story of Samson, an Israelite of enormous strength, who lost all of it after his lover Delilah betrayed him and cut his hair (Judges 13-16). However, Cohen subverts the climax of this story, portraying the emasculated Samson/David not as a bitter man, but one ready to greet his defeat with a “Hallelujah.”

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Example #3: Frank Turner, 1933 (2018)

The first time it was a tragedy The second time is a farce Outside it’s 1933 so I’m hitting the bar.

Written—by his own admission—during the U.S. election campaign of 2016, 1933 refers, both in the title and in the last verse of the pre-chorus excerpted above, to the year when the Nazis came to power in Germany. In Turner’s opinion, something similar is happening around us at the moment. (The chorus states this explicitly: “I don’t know what’s going on anymore/ The world outside is burning with a brand-new light/ But it isn’t one that makes me feel warm.”) To point out how farcical this all seems, he alludes to a famous Karl Marx observation in the first two verses above. It can be found in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon and, originally, it goes something like this: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”

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lovesyllabus123 · 3 years

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Inspiring Love Quotes to Inspire Your Relationships

Love is a powerful feeling that can sometimes feel like it has the power to make or break us. We often rely on love quotes to help give us hope for our relationships. In this blog post, we will be discussing some of the most inspiring and popular best love quotes for Love Syllabus. From "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow," by George Eliot, these quotes can help you when your relationship feels like it's falling apart!

13 Best Love Quotes for Love Syllabus on Relationship

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow. - George Eliot

One of the most important things you can do if you want a long and happy relationship makes it your business not only how much food goes on your dinner plate, but how much love goes into your relationship. - Mark Twain

Love is a word that's used far too easily and carries an incredible range of meanings within its sound. It can be irresponsible to say 'I love you' without knowing what it means for the other person or for oneself. The problem with using this phrase so easily is that it takes on a less intense meaning. - Erica Jong

Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, you can't have one without the other!- Mae West

It's so easy to fall in love, but finding someone we truly share ourselves with—that's something else altogether.- Taylor Swift

There are things about you that I like, and things about me that annoy you. But even if we were perfect for each other in every way, it still wouldn't be enough to make us compatible.- Alexia Kahl

What is love but the co-mingling of two solitudes that recognize themselves in one another? - Charlotte Bronte

Love is an emotion that is triggered by a person's environment or mood. It can be passionate, full of excitement and newness, but it can also come about without any feelings at all the feeling of love comes from within.- Matt Groening

Love is not something we find so much as something we create with every word spoken, every action taken, and every thought given. - Unknown

Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and stings when you least expect it!- James Matthew Barrie

If we were created to love one another then what's the point of being alone? What about sex? Love can't be everything or else people would only have one partner their entire life. - Unknown

Love is a game that two can play and both win-Leslie Ferris

We try, in vain, to find someone who will do for us what we won't or can't do ourselves. Most of the time all they really want is an audience for their own brilliance.- John Steinbeck

Couples are the most important people in our lives. They are a part of us, and we will never be able to live without them. It is no wonder that many relationships end up failing because we forget about how much work it takes to maintain an intimate relationship with someone. If you want your love life to thrive for years to come, then these 13 Best Love Quotes for Love Syllabus will provide you with some tips on how you can keep the fire burning in your relationship!

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justanothercinemaniac · 7 years

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Epic Movie (Re)Watch #204 - The Untouchables

Spoilers Below

Have I seen it before: Yes

Did I like it then: Yes.

Do I remember it: Yes.

Did I see it in theaters: No.

Format: Blu-ray

1) Al Capone at the barber.

First of all, this scene establishes Capone’s position in the world of the film. The press treats him as a legitimate businessman despite his immoral standings (he’s a KNOWN bootlegger, he doesn’t even hide it), which means it’s going to be all the more difficult to take him down. He’s totally in control of the scene and the fear we see in the barber’s eyes when he accidentally cuts the mobster shows just how dangerous he really is. It’s a great first taste of the gangster.

2) The second scene - of the shop blowing up and the little girl going up with it - does well to draw in audience sympathy. Despite all his showboating Capone is a monster who kills whoever gets in his way. A bully on the worst scale. He literally murders a little girl as collateral damage because someone doesn’t want to serve alcohol. That’s just fucking evil.

3) As I’ve noticed with many mob movies, The Untouchables has a woman problem. Patricia Clarkson is great but here character is nothing more than the dotting and supportive housewife. Like, there’s no conflict to her AT ALL. Her husband is doing work which puts her and her family at risk but she’s always supportive/understanding. Can’t have the woman questioning her man now can we. It’s kind of annoying. And then the only other two female characters I can even think of - the mother of the murdered girl and the woman at the train station - aren’t even characters really as plot devices. They’re just there to up the stakes for Ness.

3.1) ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? I just googled this shit and for one thing Eliot Ness didn’t have any children during the time this film is set and two HE DIDN’T HAVE A HAPPY MARRIAGE! They ended up getting divorced a few years later IN THE 30s! But the film decided to drop that ripe conflict and interesting character interaction to instead give us a cliché dotting wife trope!?

4) Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness

The best movie heroes don’t see themselves as heroes and aren’t portrayed as invincible/mythological but as just normal people trying to do good. That’s exactly what Ness is here: a good man doing his best. While at the beginning of the movie he’s a bit of a boy scout, it’s his development from that into a man who is willing to go further for a good deed which makes him interesting. This is a guy who pins up a headline of his first really big failure, who is able to remove any sense of ego and pride to ask for help when he needs it. He HATES it when he has to kill people (as seen when he has to shoot one of Capone’s goons in Canada) and just wants to get home at the end of the day. Costner portrays all of these qualities very well, making Ness an honest and down to earth character. Writing a character to be that is one thing, but Costner actually portraying that helps the audience get invested in our protagonist.

5) Sean Connery as Malone.

Connery was won his only Oscar (and it was the only time he was nominated for an Oscar) in this part and you can see why. From his very first scene Malone is striking and memorable, taking complete command of every scene he’s in. Robert DeNiro as Al Capone is a tough guy to go up against, but through Connery’s performance you believe Malone can really help take him down. That’s how strong a performance he gives, being the standout player in an already great cast. And one of the key things about Malone is that he’s not all about bravado. He’s not a trope, but a character. He has fears, insecurities, but he’s able to push past these to do the right thing. This just means Connery’s performance is all the more layered as he plays out Malone’s decisions and conflicts. It’s absolutely great.

6) The church scene.

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I think this scene is largely memorable because of how powerful the cinematography is. It’s a unique visual; the characters are kneeling/in a state of submission but by towering over the camera they’re given power in the shot. But it’s more than just an amazing shot (which that is), the scene also clearly sets up the stakes and goals of these two cops. You clearly understand Ness’ morals and convictions here while Connery’s always amazing performance as Malone really helps to carry the scene.

7) I love the way Malone tests George Stone/Giuseppe Petri (played wonderfully by a young Andy Garcia). He wants a real fighter, someone strong in their convictions, not someone who could easily be pushed over by Capone. So seeing how reacts to blatant racism is very telling of this. Also I just love that THIS is the way Giuseppe (I think I’m going to call him Giuseppe in this post) handles it.

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8) I go to school in Chicago, so I recognize a ton of the bits in the film which were actually shot in the city and I always get a kick out of it. Like, “oh, I walk down that street. Oh, I’ve been there. Cool!”

9) The ease with which the titular Untouchables handles the first liquor raid reminds me of a quote by Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Everyone KNOWS where the liquor is, Capone’s not HIDING, just no one wants to take him one because of his power and because they don’t care. It’s not hard at first, it just gets hard once you actually make a move.

10) The dinner scene.

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I think this is DeNiro at his best in the film. The dinner scene is ripe with tension as soon as Capone picks up a bat. You KNOW what’s going to happen with that bat. He’s Al Capone for pete’s sake! The slow pacing of the scene as well as what is basically a demented version of “duck duck goose” (as Capone makes his way around the table, we’re waiting to see who he’ll wail on with the bat) really ramps up the tension, while the total brutality of the scene’s outcome raises the danger/stakes for our heroes.

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Ness [in shock at the suggestion]: “Try [Al Capone] a murderer for not paying his taxes?”

I was originally going to use the “Dramatic Irony” gag from Netflix’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” but it doesn’t really work in the context so instead:

12) This line always stuck with me.

Canadian Mountie: “And surprise, as you very well know Mr. Ness, is half the battle.”

Ness: “Surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle. Losing is half the battle. Let’s think about what is all the battle.”

13) The entire shootout in Canada actually works very well. There’s a grand amount of tension in the scene before anyone even fires a gun, just when we’re waiting in the shack. Then the fact the mounties kinda screw up Ness’ plan creates interesting conflict because anything that can be done to throw off a well thought out plan is interesting. But what works the best is the fact that the ensuing skirmish between Capone’s men and the authorities is just so damn entertaining to watch. The music, the action, all of it makes it feel really heroic honestly. I dig it.

14) I really like Malone’s trick that convinces Capone’s guy to turn on him. It’s really intelligent and the fact that the movie kind of takes it seriously (with the music and the focus on Capone’s living goon) actually makes it pretty funny.

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15) Wallace’s death packs a considerable punch, primarily because he was the best on the team. He was the most honest, the most earnest, just a good man. Even better than Ness you could argue. So the fact that he’s the first to die and in a truly awful way just drums up a lot of sympathy/reaction from the audience.

16) If you want to understand the impact Wallace’s death has on the story, look no further than the following scene. The fact that Eliot just straight up goes to confront Al Capone is A) a powerful choice by the character and B) very telling of his emotional state that he does something so reckless.

17) I love how pissed Malone gets when it seems like they’re done going after Capone. When he’s in, he’s all in. His own personal stakes are so high by now. What would the point be of all of this, of Wallace’s death, if they’re not going to go all the way? This whole moment could really be considered the low point of the film, meaning a big change needs to happen.

18) A lot of my notes lately have been about scene and in some ways how one scene leads to another. The death of Wallace leads to Eliot making a hasty move as well as the crumbling of the investigation. The crumbling of that investigation leads to Malone confronting his police pal about Capone (more on that in a moment) which leads to the next scene which leads to the next scene. The best structure of a film is an invisible one and the organic nature of this plot means just that. It’s pretty great.

19) As I mentioned above, the scene where Malone confronts his cop friend about Capone is really great. Not only is it organically born from what’s happened but it’s pure stakes. If a character - ANY character - can leave the scene without getting what they want and not being totally devastated the stakes are too low. NEITHER character can yield to the other without being totally fucked, to the point where they have a fist fight trying to hold on to their stakes.

20) Malone being stalked by one of Capone’s men in his own apartment is INCREDIBLY effective as a scene of suspense. The use of point of view camera angles in this shot is great. The audience is given the information we don’t think Malone has and we’re worried for him. Much like the shark in Jaws, it seems like he’s about to get jumped on by a bad guy before he turns around with a friggin’ SHOTGUN and utters one of the greatest lines in film history.

Malone: “Brings a knife to a gun fight.”

21) Following this, Malone’s extended death sequence is absolutely gut wrenching and another strong example of Connery’s excellent acting. It speaks once again to stakes. He’s holding on as desperately as he can, as long as he can, until he can tell Ness what he died for in the first place. Until he can do one last thing to help put Capone away. It’s just totally heartbreaking and I love it.

22) The Union Station shootout.

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This is by far the most iconic moment in the film I think. First of all, let me mention two personal things about this scene: I walk those steps REGULARLY and one of my teacher’s at school is a sailor in this scene (I just don’t know which one, I think the left one walking up the stairs).

A perfect example of high stakes from slower tension, not only does the scene take its wonderful time building up to the shootout but the violence itself is also in suspenseful slow motion. The inclusion of the baby buggy not only adds a slight ticking clock element to the pre shootout scene but also a grander scene of immediate stakes as the action unfolds. NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THE KID GET HURT! It’s just really freaking great.

23) The final encounter with Ness and the man in white who killed Malone always felt a little extra to me. On the one hand it ties up that loose end and is very entertaining to watch. At this point I’m more interested in what is happening in the court room with Capone though. So…I don’t know. The movie is pretty great so I guess having it in doesn’t hurt it. Also Eliot killing him in basically cold blood shows a lot of development for his character. As does…

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Eliot [on how he convinced the judge to change juries]: “I told him his name was in the ledger too.”

Lawyer: “His name wasn’t in the ledger.”

25) And this is a final good note.

Reporter: “They say they’re going to repeal prohibition. What will you do then?”

Eliot: “I think I’ll have a drink.”

Eliot was never fighting for prohibition. He was fighting for the law. He was fighting against a bad man who was killing people and alcohol was a part of that. And I think this last line represents that perfectly.

Despite whatever issues I may have with it’s female representation, The Untouchables is an absolutely excellent film. It is wildly entertaining, able to be fun and dramatic at the same time. And although Sean Connery gives the best performance in the film, he is a part of an ensemble with no weak link in its bunch. From DeNiro to Costner to Garcia, they’re all great in the film. All in all, The Untouchables is just a great movie.

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quoteopolis · 5 years

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christymtidwell · 7 years

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I don’t often read biographies. I only have 12 books on my Goodreads shelf labelled “biography” that I’ve actually read, and a couple of those might be stretching the definition a bit (e.g., Kate Bolick’s Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, which includes biographical sketches as part of a more autobiographical project). Looking over the short list of biographies I’ve actually completed, it appears I’m primarily drawn to biographies of women, including the following: Rachel Carson, Judith Merril, George Eliot, James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon), Rosa Luxemburg, Octavia E. Butler, and Shirley Jackson. The list also includes Rachel Ignotofsky’s Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, which is a collection of short, illustrated biographical sketches of female scientists throughout history. There are only three books on the list that are about men (and here I want to mention Philippe Girard’s Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life, which I listened to on a long car ride and would highly recommend).

I’m not sure what it is that has me reading mostly biographies of women. It’s not a conscious choice to focus on women. Some of this focus certainly grows out of my scholarly interests; my dissertation was about feminist science fiction and feminist science, after all. Rachel Carson, Judith Merril, James Tiptree, Jr., and Octavia E. Butler are all relevant to that work. But my dissertation didn’t focus on any of these women and didn’t require biographical research anyway.

Certainly there’s also an element of admiration in my choices. All of these are biographies of women whose work I value: Rachel Carson’s scientific work as well as her writing about science; James Tiptree, Jr.’s brilliant and disturbing fiction, much of it reflecting on gender and sex; Judith Merril’s writing and editorial work and the way she helped shape science fiction as a genre; Octavia Butler’s revelations of power in her fiction (I especially love Dawn); Rosa Luxemburg’s fight for freedom and justice. And so on.

Another unfortunate pattern, however, seems to be that the biographies I have enjoyed most (is enjoyed the right word? perhaps not) are those of women who have led somewhat painful, constrained lives: Rachel Carson, James Tiptree, Jr., Octavia Butler, Shirley Jackson.

This pattern seems especially to be highlighted by Ruth Franklin’s recent biography of Shirley Jackson (Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, 2016), which I just finished reading. Franklin emphasizes Jackson’s always strained relationship with her mother, her feeling of never fitting in anyplace, the hurtful ways her husband (scholar Stanley Hyman) treated her, frequently lukewarm responses to her fiction with a couple of significant exceptions, the tension she felt between her life as wife and mother and her life as writer, her late-in-life agoraphobia and serious anxiety, and her early death. Despite some real success as a writer and what seem like largely positive relationships with her children, Jackson’s life is marked by pain, anxiety, and a sense of her lack of freedom.

Reading her fiction with this in mind is illuminating. For instance, her work frequently circles around the supernatural. She typically stops short of relying on the supernatural as an explanation, but it is always a possibility, and it was something she studied for years.

Witchcraft, whether she practiced it or simply studied it, was important to Jackson for what it symbolized: female strength and potency. The witchcraft chronicles she treasured–written by male historians, often men of the church, who sought to demonstrate that witches presented a serious threat to Christian morality–are stories of powerful women: women who defy social norms, women who get what they desire, women who can channel the power of the devil himself. (261)

Shirley Jackson didn’t identify herself as a feminist, but she certainly fits into a feminist tradition. And Franklin points out how her observations about her own life, as well as her fiction, presage Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. Like many women of the time, Jackson felt she had little to no control over her own life, little to no say in what was possible. Witchcraft, even as a thought experiment, allowed a window out of that world of control.

Later, Franklin’s discussion of The Haunting of Hill House includes a significant, telling detail about Jackson’s sense of the book and, potentially, about her sense of herself. At one point, Franklin observes that, in her notes, Jackson referred to a particular line as the “key line” of the novel. This line comes after Eleanor has been clutching Theodora’s hand in fear as she hears a child crying for help in the next room. When the lights go on, however, Theodora is not in bed with her but in the bed across the room: “Good God,” Eleanor says, “whose hand was I holding?” This line always gives me chills but I hadn’t considered it as central to the book in the way Jackson apparently did.

Franklin’s interpretation builds upon Jackson’s biography:

The people we hold by the hand are our intimates–parents, children, spouses. To discover oneself clinging to an unidentifiable hand and to ask “Whose hand was I holding?” is to recognize that we can never truly know those with whom we believe ourselves most familiar. One can sleep beside another person for twenty years, as Shirley had with Stanley [Hyman] by this point, and still feel that person to be at times a stranger–and not the “beautiful stranger” of her early story. The hand on the other side of the bed may well seem to belong to a demon. (414)

This is an intriguing reading that I will have to consider when I re-read the novel. Whether I find it convincing as a reading of this line or not, however, it is a compelling take on Shirley’s mindset and the feelings about her marriage she struggled with for many years.

Franklin’s biography – as in these two examples – provides potentially useful ways of reading Shirley Jackson’s work through her biography. The next instance raises questions about the limits of such readings, however.

Late in her life, when she became (temporarily) unable to leave her house, she found herself also unable to write. Franklin writes, tying Jackson’s anxiety to her relationship with Stanley, “It was an issue of control, she thought. How could she wrest control of her life, her mind, back from Stanley? And if she could, would her writing change?” (477). Jackson wrote in her diary at this time, “insecure, uncontrolled, i wrote of neuroses and fear and i think all my books laid end to end would be one long documentation of anxiety.” Her books do all seem to wrestle with anxiety and fear, and this is the source of much of their power. Would she write such books if she were a happier woman? If the world made room for her to be who she needed to be? Likely not. But what other books might she have written instead? Her books gather force from her anxiety and fear, but to leave it there is to discount her talent and skill as a writer. I suspect that a less unhappy version of Shirley Jackson could still have been a brilliant writer, but she might have spoken to different concerns. Or perhaps she would still have reflected these fears, for they are not unique to her or to her situation as a woman in an unhappy marriage in the mid-20th century.

Some of Jackson’s commentary on her own writing from earlier in her life indicates the broader reach of her ideas:

In a publicity memo written for Farrar, Straus around the time The Road Through the Wall appeared–only a month before “The Lottery” was written, if the March date on the draft is accurate–Jackson mentioned her enduring fondness for eighteenth-century English novels because of their “preservation of and insistence on a pattern superimposed precariously on the chaos of human development.” She continued: “I think it is the combination of these two that forms the background of everything I write–the sense which I feel, of a human and not very rational order struggling inadequately to keep in check forces of great destruction, which may be the devil and may be intellectual enlightenment.” In all her writing, the recurrent theme was “an insistence on the uncontrolled, unobserved wickedness of human behavior.” (224)

I take this as a reminder that although her personal demons may have shaped her writing, these feelings and themes are not unique to her or to people with similar problems. In fact, this quote seems to sum up horror fiction in a nutshell: rationality attempts (and fails) to control that which is beyond rational, humanity attempts (and fails) to control itself or its “wickedness.”

Shirley Jackson & Biography I don't often read biographies. I only have 12 books on my Goodreads shelf labelled "biography" that I've actually read, and a couple of those might be stretching the definition a bit (e.g., …

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principleofplenitude · 4 years

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How was it that in the weeks since her marriage, Dorothea had not distinctly observed but felt with a stifling depression, that the large vistas and wide fresh air which she had dreamed of finding in her husband’s mind were replaced by anterooms and winding passages which seemed to lead nowhither? I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the doorsill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

George Eliot, from Middlemarch (1872)

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j-august · 7 years

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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

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perletwo · 6 years

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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

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As my second read of the year, I committed to Middlemarch by George Eliot to fill the bitterly cold Chicago evenings and snowy January mornings to come. For some reasons I didn’t have great expectations for the novel, and simply planned to get through another mildly enjoyable classics of literature, again for some reason expecting it not to be a favorite—maybe because I bought it just as I was in an independent study where I read a couple dry excerpts from much longer classics. I don’t know why I underestimated George Eliot, but I’m sorry I did. Eliot’s novel is like a long Austen novel (marriage, social intrigue, fun and gossip), but spanning the viewpoints of seven main characters (not to mention the side characters!), with a touch of depth through Woolf-like deep emotional insight and imagery (Woolf, quoted on the back cover, once called it "one of the few English books written for grown-up people”). In other words, it’s complex, entertaining, and beautiful.

The back summary of this Penguin classic has mild spoilers, but keep in mind that they spoil events in the novel that will happen in the “introduction” of an 830-page tome. Here I’ll just introduce the characters, since to get into any more plot than this would take a much longer review. Spiritual and intelligent Dorothea Brooke wants to marry Mr. Causabon, an aging scholar, because she believes he will help her do good in the world through his knowledge. Causabon’s nephew, Will Ladislaw, joins the tale to his uncle’s dislike; Dorothea’s sister’s very different personality makes her an ideal match for the more good-natured Sir James Chettham, whom Dorothea ignored for Mr. Causabon. Meanwhile, witty Mary Garth is in residence helping rich, bitter Mr. Featherstone; her efforts are lightened by Featherstone’s nephew Fred Vincy, a man hoping he will arrive at a fortune through his uncle’s will. Fred’s sister Rosamund, widely considered the best match in town, longs to marry someone from outside of Middlemarch, and her wishes seem to be answered when a new young doctor, Lydgate, arrives in town to help the rich and religious Mr. Bulstrode to build a new, more pioneering hospital.

My one note is that it holds a lot of small microaggressions that would not be okay today. The word g***y is used as an insult more than once. At one point, the question of whether someone had a Jewish (and thieving grandmother) comes up as a questionable family legacy (yes anti-Semitism). In addition, there are definitely scattered moments where sexist things about women vs. men are said, but with those I want to emphasize the depth of character and independence that Eliot does give her women, and point out that for the time, her women were progressive, and also that Eliot almost always has these comments come out of men’s mouths, and that I think she approached them not without irony.

Eliot tackles the conflicting and complicated emotions associated with marriage and social slights with grace. Each character cuts right down to your emotions. Her metaphors are stunning: at one point she describes the way that a woman carries her strong personality as the way that red wine tastes good despite the sharp tang of the grape skin (“her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavour of skin”). The length of the classic is warranted, as it weaves carefully through the lives of these seven characters—Dorothea, Will, Fred, Rosamund, Mary, Bulstrode, and Lydgrate—without ever losing the reader. I’m so glad I invested the two weeks needed to immerse myself into the world of Middlemarch. It’s now one of my favorite classics.

“Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”

#middlemarch #george eliot #classics #books #reading #my book reviews #all mine

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• A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. – Mary Karr • A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel • A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. – Charles R. Swindoll • A happy family is but an earlier heaven. – George Bernard Shaw • A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

• All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Families are the compass that guide us. – Brad Henry • Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them. – Leigh Anne Tuohy • Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. – Jane Austen • Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. – Gail Buckley • Family is everything. Family comes first. It’s not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is. – Madonna Ciccone • Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. – Marsha Norman • Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. – Michael J. Fox • Family is the most important thing in the world. – Princess Diana • Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. – Reinhold Niebuhr • Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. – George Eliot • Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. – David Ogden Stiers • Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood. – Charles Dickens • Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. – Mignon McLaughlin

• Family, nature and health all go together.- Olivia Newton-John • Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. – Evan Esar • Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. – Oscar Wilde • Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. – Virginia Satir • God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. – Desmond Tutu • Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns • Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. – Charles Dudley Warner • He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. – Benjamin Franklin • He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. – Chanakya

• I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don’t mind that. – Janet Jackson • I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. – Thomas Hardy • I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. – Jet Li • I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that’s all that matters. – Lance Armstrong • I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap. – Fred Allen • I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. – Amos Oz • I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give. – Thomas Jefferson • I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. – Marie Curie • I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. – Nastassja Kinski • I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. – Anthony Anderson • I stay in tune with my family and God. – Regina King • I sustain myself with the love of family. – Maya Angelou • I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. – Barbara Bush • I would rather start a family than finish one. – Don Marquis • If the family goes, so goes our civilization. – Ronald Reagan • If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin • If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin • If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. – Michael Enzi • If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. – George Bernard Shaw • If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion. -Ashleigh Brilliant • If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you’ll be going, ‘you know, we’re alright. We are dang near royalty.’ – Jeff Foxworthy • I’ll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. – LaToya Jackson • Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls…are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. – James Patterson • In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. – Alex Haley • In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. – Isaac Rosenfeld • In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. – Eva Burrows • In family life, love is the oil that eases friction. – Eva Burrows • In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens. – Henry Ward Beecher • Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. – Cary Grant • It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. – Confucius • It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. – Elizabeth Edwards • Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nightingale • My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. – Rick Riordan • My family is more important than my party. – Zell Miller • My family is my strength and my weakness. – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan • My family’s the most important thing in my life. – Joe Namath • No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. – J. Edgar Hoover • No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. – Margaret Mead • No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? – Lee Iacocca • No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. – Claire LaZebnik • Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead • Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. – Barack Obama • Ohana means family – no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten. – Chris Sanders • One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. – Jonathan Safran Foer • One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. – Ralph Fiennes • One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family. – Robert Byrd • Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. – Anthony Brandt • Peace in society depends upon peace in the family. – Saint Augustine • Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. – George Bernard Shaw • Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. – Christopher Love • Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life. – Albert Einstein • Satan’s ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war. – Victor L. Brown • Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. – Napoleon Bonaparte • So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. – Haniel Long • Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. – David Rockefeller • Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. – Wayne Huizenga • Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table. – Bob Ehrlich • Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. – Robert Foster Bennett • Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. – Mitch Albom • The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. – Christopher Lasch • The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. – Bill Vaughan • The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. – Richard Bach • The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future. – Jackie Kennedy • The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. – Dodie Smith • The family is a haven in a heartless world. – Christopher Lasch • The family is more sacred than the state. – Pope Pius XI • The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. – George Santayana • The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. – Lyndon B. Johnson • The family is the school of duties – founded on love. – Felix Adler • The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. – Sandra Day O’Connor • The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. – Erma Bombeck • The foundation of family – that’s where it all begins for me. – Faith Hill • The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. – Desmond Tutu • The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness. – Nancy Mitford • The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. – Pope John Paul II • The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended. – Robert Frost • The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. – Thomas Jefferson • The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them. – Timothy Keller • The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together – and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families – that’s what we hope to do. – Walt Disney • The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. – Pearl S. Buck • The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing – Eva Burrows • The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. – Charles Kuralt • The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.- John Gresham Machen • The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what. – Miley Cyrus • The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. – Lee Iacocca • The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. – Mario Puzo • The whole world is my family. – Pope John XXIII • There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing. – Phil McGraw • There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. – Winston Churchill • There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure. – Jim Butcher • There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. – T. S. Eliot • There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. – Willie Stargell • This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work. – Mitch Albom • To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. – Pope John Paul II • To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. – Confucius • To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. – Barbara Bush • We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. – Walt Disney • We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. – Kofi Annan • What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. – Mother Teresa • What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. – Robert Breault • When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family. – Jim Butcher • When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you. – Guy Lafleur • When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. – Joyce Brothers • Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found. – Winston Churchill • Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. – Andre Maurois • Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family. – Grace Kelly • You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges. – Elizabeth Berg • You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. – Frederick Buechner • You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu • You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family. – Rod Stewart • You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. – Anita Baker • You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn’t depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family. – Trenton Lee Stewart • Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. – Jim Rohn

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