"Paul was seen to slip into St John's Wood Church in December 2005 and sit alone in quiet contemplation. This church had special memories for him, as the place he and Linda had their 1969 wedding blessed. Church workers who were putting up the Christmas decorations when Paul came in also noted that it was around the time of the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's murder. What a lot had happened to Paul since that awful day, and what a mess he now found himself in."
Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, by Howard Sounes
Context: Paul was depressed during this time because of the ongoing problems between him and Heather. They got separated just five months later.
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Eugène Delacroix speaks with Menneval about the abdication of Napoleon. Marshal Ney conspires to kill Napoleon.
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Baron de Menneval (1778-1850), the former secretary of Napoleon who had accompanied him in the retreat from Russia; author of a book of memories of the Empire.
Baron Fain (1778-1837), one of the secretaries of the Emperor, published historical memories of the Empire.
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From Delacroix’s journal. Monday, 23 July 1849:
In the evening M. Menneval told me of the frightful conduct of the generals and marshals toward the Emperor, at Arcis-sur-Seine or sur-Aube. M. Fain, lodging in another house than that of the Emperor, and crossing a square in order to join his master, came on a group of generals, among them Marshal Ney, who were deliberating among themselves as to whether they should not mete out to their benefactor the fate of Romulus: to kill him and to bury him there seemed to them as good a means as any other of getting rid of him and of getting back to their hotel, where they could enjoy themselves; he was, so they said, the scourge of France, etc. The Emperor, to whom M. Fain related the affair with emotion that will be imagined, contented himself with saying that they were mad.
Marshal Ney’s greatest impropriety toward him occurred after the battle of the Moscova, when he complained that by sparing the guard, the Emperor had deprived him of the fruits of a more complete victory. Marshal Ney was the cruelest at Fontainebleau; he went to the point of threatening him with physical injury if he did not abdicate.
In the course of the Russian campaign, Berthier did not fear to tell him how terrible it was to see oneself endlessly dragged into new enterprises: “What good does it do,” said he, “to have wealth, houses, and lands, if one has to go to war eternally and compromise everything?”
To their reproaches, which often were odious, Napoleon’s only answer was patience; despite their ingratitude, he loved them as old comrades.
Before the last years, M. Menneval told me no one had dared to permit himself an observation when he gave an order. Confidence had partially abandoned him, but the sureness and firmness of his genius not at all, as the French campaign so well proved. If, at Waterloo, at the end of the battle, there had been at his disposal that reserve of the guard which he refused to engage at the Moscova, he would still have won the battle, despite the arrival of the Prussians.
I asked M. Menneval whether he had not been completely indisposed at the Moscova, according to generally accredited opinion. This is correct: he was sick, and attacked with a loss of voice, especially after the battle, so that it was impossible for him to give a spoken order.
He was obliged to scribble his orders on bits of paper. Notwithstanding, he was completely master of his ideas. But after the battle of Dresden, the sudden indisposition with which he was seized paralyzed all the operations, carried with it the defeat of Vandamme, etc.
During the Consulate, he was very sick with malignant mange. which he had contracted at the siege of Toulon. He would lean against his table, pressing his side with his hand during crises of violent suffering. His paleness and his thinness, at this period, are explained by this sickly condition. Corvisart got him rid of his disease, at least in appearance; but it is probable that the disease of which he died had its original cause in this cruel malady.
Source: The Journal of Eugène Delacroix
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It's 12/9, the anniversary of Lucy's DOD
I'm just imagining Tim holding her and kissing her tattoo and whispering to her how proud he is and what a survivor she is
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221222 - jungtw_leo🐦
@jungtw_leo
이제 연습이 끝나고 들어왔어요. 빅스라는 이름으로 많이 보고싶었어요. 쉽지않은 준비기간 이지만, 그리웠던 모습 모두 다 채워줄 수 없겠지만 기대하고 와줘요. 내 뮤즈이자 변함없는 별빛
I came in now, after practice finished. I missed you a lot under the name VIXX. It's not an easy preparation period, I won't be able to fill all the moments I missed, but please look forward to it. My muse and unwavering starlight
@jungtw_leo
그대들에게 감사하며 정말 사랑하는 마음으로 준비하고 있어요. 굿나잇 ❤️️
I'm so thankful for all of you and I'm preparing with a loving heart. Good night❤️️
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me: scars... they are so cool...
mom: I hate to say this but your cool scars are fading away
me: NO NO THEY ARENT THEY JUST AREN'T ALL RED ANYMORE
mom: yes, you can barely see them now because they are in fact fading away, sorry
me: nooooooo
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If you're celebrating BTS doing this mandatory military service because of the bad seeds in the fandom, just deactivate your blog thanks
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The sun rises, the sun sets.
Of this, I will place my bets.
Raining, as if it already knew.
Wet floors, stained heavy with you.
I will have to watch
As you stretch your weakened wings
The moon steals the sky from the sun.
The stars, the audience as the night sings.
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WIP ask game
Thank you so very much for tagging me @thornescratch I love your placeholders and feel much better about my weird ones now. I can never think of titles until the very last minute, usually when I have the post page open on AO3 (and it shows).
Rules: Post the titles of your current works in progress. If someone sends you an ask with one of those titles, explain the concept or post a snippet!
Bleach
Isshin-Grimmjow wtf
SUGAR DADDY WRITING (idk why it’s all caps but obv i once did)
halloween tentacles
Da Vinci’s Demons
alien ficlet
Fire Meet Gasoline
Love the Way You Lie
Halloween 2016
Polyarmory ot3
Teen Wolf
Can’t Buy Me Love
The Raven Cycle
Discworld mashup
Hades Persephone
hurricane
Rapunzel
camera
Hallmark movie
golf
Halloween
Mr Smith
sugar baby
artist quarantine
lemon demon
That’s... a lot more wips than I thought. 😅 I wanted to get all my TRC ideas done before Greywaren comes out, but that’s looking unlikely unless I actually sit down and write something. And who wants to do that?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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To all my fellow artists out there, tragedy has struck. There comes a time in every artist’s life where they use pencils or crayons or pens and become attached to a color or size or whatever. The time has arrived where my best colors must be put down. Mourn with me, as I lay these warriors, these champions, these gods, to their final rest.
Rip to blue violet, dark blue, black, expensive black, crayola black, and shiny black.
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