#hector bowen

[quoteablebooks]

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” Celia quotes at him.

“Please, no Shakespeare.”

“I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please. You used to be quite fond of Shakespeare, Prospero.”

Celia Bowen and Prospero Hector Bowen The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

#Celia Bowen #Prospero #Hector Bowen #the night circus #erin morgenstern

[ksenyablinchick]

So I finished reading The Night Circus a couple of days ago. So that's a little demonstration of what I want to do with Prospero, aka Hector Bowen.

#night circus #hector bowen #the night circus #pencil art #ukrart

[multifunctionalnitroglycerin]

The Night Circus Impressions #1

So, I started reading the Night Circus today, (and I can feel that half-written paper for my ICU class glaring at me, but who cares). And I am intrigued.

SPOILERS FROM HERE AN ON in case someone else also lived under a rock and only now is reading the book.

Granted I am a measly 28 pages in, but I already have quite a few opinions, and I am trying to keep my brain from diving too far in character analysis so soon. But so far I rly like the contrast between Prospero/ Hector and "Alexander".

The initial impression, albeit only for a few lines as they meet for the first time would have you believe that perhaps Hector is kind of the better option of the two, for a mentor. But that's how he is initially presented to us. He is presented as rly charismatic, and magnetizing and well, he is a performer. Alexander on the other hand comes off as stand offish and entirely too critical, and perhaps a bit cold.

As the narration continues though, we see that Hector has this... obsessive almost interest in his daughter's abilities and to the external observer he seems to look for ways to exploit them, even as he "trains" her. I cannot find the exact word for it, but he treats it like a business opportunity. He sees her abilities, her "Talent" and not her. And he only seems to care for it too. He is eccentric and awfully insistent in participating in that so called game, and from what I have seen so far in the narration he is petty and cruel even at times. He is wholly uninterested in what she likes and all but fights her for it -although at a later point he seems to have stopped antagonizing her interest for books so much, and he uses her like a circus attraction of sorts with her readings. I rly want to see where this goes as the book progresses

Then we have the man in the grey suit. Stand offish though he is, he seems to take greater care of his mentee than Hector. And a completely different approach to their capabilities. We see runes and symbols, we see him disapproving of Hectors theatrics. He is presented as more steadfast and methodical, and when he imparts something to Marco it feels more direct and clear, even to the reader. He also seems to be an absent enough, but somewhat caring figure, if only for the purposes of the game and Marco's training. He is no less aloof and secretive than Hector, but so far, through the boy's eyes he seems to be doing a far better job at preparing him for the game.

Reading abt those two feels like watching an argument about whether innate ability or talent is better than practicing or training.

Anyhow, I am going back to that paper.. ugh, More thoughts when I progress a bit with the plot.

See y' all later

#the night circus #Hector Bowen #Alexander the night circus #celia bowen #marco alisdair #character analysis #somehow #I am like 30 pages in so... #I'll get back to you soon

[sharry-arry-odd]

Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. The audience cannot tell the difference beyond knowing that I am better at it.

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

#page 15 #the night circus #night circus #erin morgenstern #le cirque des rêves #fiction #fantasy #romance #dark romance #hector bowen #magic #illusion #egoism #quote #quotes #literature #book #booklr #reading

[eternitae]

Prospero the Enchanter

#Bio: ( Hector Bowen )

[ultramori]

THE MOMENT A SMALL AMOUNT OF YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR: THE OMORI TUMBLR AWARDS WINNERS

What it says on the tin. This is a hella long list so imma put the winners under the cut. Also note that this is PART ONE of the winners since Tumblr can only allow 30 images per post. I'll reblog the rest

Okay first off, the winner for the biggest Omori fan is.....

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The winner for biggest Basil fan is....

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The winner for biggest Mari fan is (unsurprisingly)

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The winner for biggest Stranger fan is ME jk it's

@ksenya-and-the-artistic-cucumber!!!!

The winner for biggest SOMETHING fan is...

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The winner for biggest Sprout Mole fan is...

@omocat!!

The winner for biggest Boss fan is...

Basil OMORI!!!

The winner for biggest Ye Old Sprout fan is....

Nurses I guess!!!

The winner for biggest Pluto fan is....

@ksenya-and-the-artistic-cucumber!!!

The winner for biggest Captain Spaceboy fan is....

@beepbeeplettuce613!!

The winner for biggest Space Ex fan is....

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The winner for biggest S

IT'S @kaz-kazoo

The winner for biggest Snaley fan is...

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The winner for biggest Mr. Jawsum fan is...

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The winner for biggest Humphrey fan is...

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The winner for biggest Marina fan is....

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The winner for biggest Download Window fan is..

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YOU!!!!

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ALRIGHT THAT'S IT FOR RN I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT

#omori tumblr awards #announcement post kind of?

[walsiegirl]

Last year, I read The Night Circus by Eric Morgenstein for English class. From an interview I read, the author said the she fancast Geoffrey Rush as Hector Bowen if there's a movie adaptation.

Ironic that the character name is Hector

Definitely ironic. Geoffrey makes a great Hector. ☺️

#geoffrey rush #asks #the night circus #eric morgenstein

[reviewsbywolfie]

THIS TOOK FOREVER TO FINISH! I think about maybe a couple of days. Probably 3.

Anyway, this is called The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. As you can she, she’s also written another book called The Starless Sea so she’s pretty famous.

This book is about two competitors competing over their ability to do magic. Only one can win and someone has to lose. And if they lose, they die. No seriously, they do.

I assumed that it was gonna be filled with a tone of action and plenty of dueling matching, but it’s actually a lot calmer and more informative than I thought. This book doesn’t just revolve around the competitors. It revolves around all of the people in the circus. The setting takes placed between 1870s-1900s and the chapters aren’t always in order. Sometimes it’s in 1897 and the next chapter would be in 1902, something like that.

What I love about this book is that the author really captures all of the characters POV. The book itself isn’t in 1st POV, but Erin guides us through what the character is experiencing. I also love how no one really knows exactly why there’s a competition in the first place and having magic isn’t really explained. Sure, the thought does drive me crazy, but sometimes, things are meant to be kept as a secret.

Spoiler Alert: (skip this part if you haven’t read it)

I believe the ending is what really got to me. Towards the end, we get to see Widge performing a story for Mr. H— and Hector (his ‘shadow’). We learn that Mr. H— is a lot order than he claims to be and that his first student has disagreed with him. I believe that when he explains further, that the student he’s referring to is Hector, the name he was competing against. This ‘competition’ has been unleashed 7 times already and not once has Hector won. It frustrates him and it frustrates him more when he looses an 8th time. All he wanted was to beat his former mentor and he’s broken hearts (and former students) to get it. Even his own daughter (Celia Bowen).

End of Spoiler

My only downside to the book is that when I started reading it, it gave me the perspective of a text book from school. The words were pretty small, which also reminded me of the DMV text book I got to get my drivers license. (Yeah, I really recommend that you don’t buy that book). I also feel like this book could actually resemble a prequel to a book series made for a modern time of The Night Circus. If we were to get a series out of this, I’d gladly read it.

That’s my take on The Night Circus. Now, I’ll be reading A Soul of Ash and Blood. I’ve already read the first 4 books so I’m so excited to read this book. Since this is the last book I have so far, I’d really appreciated if you’d recommend some book for me to read/review as well.

That’s all for now. Stay on track and stay in the pack 🐺

#new book reviewer #reviewsbywolfie #review of The Night Circus #erin morgenstern

[ao3feed-irondadspiderson]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42236928

Perchance to Dream by OliOcelot Once upon a time, there were two men who stood at the top of their field. From the outside, they were men of science. A surgeon and an inventor. Hidden beneath that, they were men of magic and awe, the mystic arts and impossible extremes. They were doctors at the surface, and magicians at heart. But this story is not about them. Not really. This story is about a boy and a girl and a bet. A wager, rather, that will span both lifetimes, and while attempting to pit them against one another will only intertwine them further… — Peter and Michelle, students of famed magicians Tony Stark and Stephen Strange, are set against each other in a competition unlike any other. The venue is that of a traveling circus, where time seems to stand still and reality and magic blur together until it’s impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. They attempt to outdo one another with performances and various displays of phenomenal power, but eventually each production becomes less of a challenge and more of a love letter, and Peter and Michelle eventually have to wonder - is there really a need for a winner? — Aka the Night Circus Spideychelle AU that no one asked for. Words: 3895, Chapters: 1/8, Language: English Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Categories: F/M, M/M Characters: Peter Parker, Michelle Jones, Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Ned Leeds, Billy Kaplan, Tommy Shepherd, Teddy Altman, Gwen Stacy, Flash Thompson, Felicia Hardy, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanof, Penny Parker, Bucky Barnes, Wanda Maximoff (mentioned), Vision (mentioned), Miles Morales (mentioned), Cindy Moon (mentioned) Relationships: Peter Parker/Michelle Jones, Billy Kaplan/Teddy Altman, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Michelle Jones & Stephen Strange, Michelle Jones & Ned Leeds, Tony Stark & Stephen Strange, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Flash Thompson & Gwen Stacy & Felicia Hardy, Billy Kaplan & Tommy Shepherd, Peter Parker & Billy Kaplan & Tommy Shepherd, Peter Parker & Bucky Barnes Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic, Alternate Universe - no heroes, Night Circus AU, Tony Stark is Peter Parker’s Mentor, Stephen Strange is Michelle Jones’ Mentor, Frozen in Time (kind of), Peter and MJ are magicians, Intended Rivals to Lovers, Ned Leeds reads Tarot, Peter and MJ are Celia and Marco, Tony and Stephen are Hector Bowen and Mr. A.H., but also not as awful, Ned is Isobel, Billy and Tommy are Poppet and Widget, Teddy is Bailey, lots of character cameos happening in this, shameless quoting of The Night Circus, Spideychelle Big Bang 2022, major character death but also kind of not major character death, it's complicated - Freeform, minor character death for sure though, we thought it best to tag just in case

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #iron dad and spider son #spider son #iron dad #peter parker #tony stark

[poetsalchemy]

woah! was that CELIA BOWEN walking down main street? i heard they’re not actually from ivy cove but come from THE NIGHT CIRCUS. they’re 26 and live in RADIAN HILLS but watch out because they can be PERFECTIONISTIC + WITHDRAWN but are actually GIFTED + WHIMSICAL. despite them HAVING memories, you’ll always think of SURROUNDING YOURSELF WITH BLACK AND WHITE, PREFERRING READING OVER SOCIALIZATION, STAGE MAGIC, & A LOVE FOR WINTER when imagining them.  ( margaret qualley, she/her )

[ * THE BASICS ! ]

NAME:  celia bowen.

NICKNAME(S):  n/a.

ALIAS(ES):  the illusionist.

SPECIES:  human.

BIRTHDAY:  sometime in 1868.

BIRTHPLACE:  london.

PAST RESIDENCE(S):  anywhere and everywhere, with the circus.

CURRENTLY RESIDING:  radian hills, ivy cove.

LIVING SITUATION:  a small townhouse.

GENDER IDENTITY: cis woman, she/her.

SEXUALITY:  heterosexual.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single.

SHIPS: marco alisdair only.

ETHNICITY:  caucasian.

FACE CLAIM:  margaret qualley.

OCCUPATION: head librarian at ivy cove public library.

MEMORIES: celia remembers everything — her powers, marco, and being an illusionist for le cirque des rêves. she remembers her father's (quite literal and somewhat gradual) disappearance and lack of faith in her abilities, and she remembers everything that she created with marco for the circus. fake life connections for celia are open!

[ * CONNECTIONS ! ]

FATHER:  hector bowen (prospero the enchanter).

LOVE INTEREST: marco alisdair.

FRIENDS: chandresh lefevre, herr friedrick thissen, isobel martin, tante padva, tsukiko, tara burgess, lainie burgess.

#𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 // * i am tired of trying to hold together things that cannot be held.

[readingforsanity]

The Night Cirus | Erin Morgenstern | Published 2011 | *SPOILERS*

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black and white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Reves, and it is only open at night. 

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. 

Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love - a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. 

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. 

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart. 

A game...a competition. It is forced upon two young souls who are destined for such great things. There is Celia Bowen, daughter of Hector Bowen, more prominently known as Prospero the Enchanter. He is spent his entire adult life enchanting those with “magic”. Her competitior? Marco, a young orphan boy who is taken from his orphanage by the man in the grey suit, often known as A.H., only few know him as Alexander. 

For years, they are groomed to become the best of the best. Celia is a clever illusionist, but they’re not simple illusions. They’re real, though she is able to manipulate audiences into believing that what they’re seeing isn’t real at all. Marco is also clever in his own way. And the game they’re playing is a sinister competition brought forth by Hector and Alexander to prove who is the better of the two. 

And thus the venue for their game is created: it is a circus, though not like any circus anyone has ever heard of. It is open only from dusk to dawn, and there are no clowns or anything of the sort. There are acrobats and contortionists, along with Celia as the illusionist, as well as a tarot card reader named Isobel. The circus is created by an eccentric rich man named Chandresh, who is Marco’s employer. When Celia auditons for the circus, he comes to realize that she is his competition. Isobel, who is Marco’s lover, also joins the circus in her attempt to help Marco win the game, though neither Marco or Celia know how this is to be accomplished. 

For years, they create various attractions for the circus as their “play”, much like a game of chess. Oftentimes, Marco will create something he knows would please Celia, and Celia will add onto it, knowing it would please Marco. Though they are not meant to be collaborating on various things, they choose to do so either way. 

The circus continues for many years, and thus the game continues. Celia’s father is found to be only a shadow of himself, no longer the mighty man he once was. He is simply a shadow that shows himself only to those who are deemed worthy. And A.H. is a seemingly ageless man who has no shadow, something the twins, Widget and Poppett have come to gather as their time in the circus. Their parents were in charge of the menagerie tent, and they are taking lessons from Celia herself. Widget is able to see the past, while Poppett is able to see the future, though hers are not in such certain terms as the past. 

Bailey, a young man from Massachusetts, had visited the circus as a child and came into contact with Poppett, and ever since, has been obsessed. When it returns 6 years later, he visits every night, striking up a friendship with Poppett and Widget, who give him access to the circus that no other patron ever has. 

But things are quickly going wrong with the circus. It isn’t apparent to the patrons, but to those who live and breathe the circus, the air feels differently. Marco and Celia, against the odds, have fallen in love with each other. And they learn that the endgame of the circus is that the one deemed the victor will be able to live, while the loser will be dead. Neither wants that for the other, but are willing to do what they can. But without them, there is no circus. 

After Tsukiko, the contortionist and the winner of the previous games held as Alexander’s victor, tries to end one of their lives in order to keep the circus afloat, Celia and Marco end up in some sort of void that keeps them together, bound to the circus forever. Celia is able to give her powers, or whatever you may want to call them, over to Bailey, who then becomes the ageless proprietor of the circus himself, keeping it going for hundreds of years to come. 

Discussion Questions 

1. The novel opens with a quote from Oscar Wilde: “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world”. How is this sentiment explored in The Night Circus? Who in the novel is a dreamer? And what is their punishment for being so? Bailey is the dreamer of the novel. He has dreams to be more than just a farmer like his father, a dream that is carried on from his grandmother, who wishes him to go on to college. She realizes these dreams are different for everyone, but for Bailey, she simply wants more. But his destiny is Poppett and the circus, something that becomes undoubtedly clear toward the end of the book. 

2. The novel frequently changes narrative perspective. How does this transition shape your reading of the novel and your connection to the characters and the circus? Why do you think the author chose to tell the story from varied perspectives? I found it to be a bit confusing, as sometimes there was no telling who’s perspective you were reading until a few paragraphs in. But, there were many perspectives we needed to know in order to understand the book. 

3. The narrative also follows a non-linear sequence - shifting at times from present to past. How effective was this method in regards to revealing conflict in the novel? We come to see just how the circus functions throughout the different timeframes. Although, I wish it was in linear sequence in order to be less confusing. 

4. There are a number of allusions to Shakespeare throughout the test: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and As You Like It. Explain these references - how does each play reveal itself in the novel? Romeo and Juliet is the only Shakespearean play I really know. The others I’ve heard of but have never seen any of their adaptations. Romeo and Juliet is the one most wildly taught in the school system I attended, therefore I know more about it. Henceforth, Marco and Celia are like Romeo and Juliet. They are lovers, but are not supposed to be. 

5. What role does time play in the novel? From Friedric Thiessen’s clock, to the delayed aging of the circus developers, to the birth of the twins - is time manipulated or fated at the circus? The circus allows none of them to age, at least not in a traditional way. Throughout the book, one of the original creators of the circus just remains the same throughout the years. Thieseen eventually does too. But time is neither here nor there. Time means nothing when your at the circus. 

6. How does the following statement apply to both Le Cirque des Reves and the competition? Which audience is more valuable: one that is complicit or one that is unknowing?: “Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.” One that is unknowing. A complicit audience means that they’re expecting something to happen. Their reactions therefore are not genuine. But an audience who is unknowing means that their reactions are genuine, that Chandresh is seeing their true delight through what they’re seeing. 

7. Chandresh is portrayed as a brilliant and creative perfectionaist at the beginning of the novel, yet he slowly unravels as the competition matures. Is Chandresh merely a puppet of the competition - solely used for his ability to provide a venue for the competition - or do his contributions run deeper? I think he was only used as a venue for the competition. A.H. was the true contributor, those nobody knew it at the time the circus was in pre-production you could say. Chandresh was able to provide the means for the venue. 

8. Marco asserts that Alexander H. is a father figure to him (though his paternal instincts aren’t readily noticeable). In what ways does Alexander provide for Marco and in what ways has he failed him? A.H. has failed him in so many ways. While I enjoy the fact that he took the boy from an orphanage and uncertain future, his future was never really certain. Either way, he was destined to either kill or be killed. 

9. Celia emphasizes that keeping the circus controlled is a matter of balance. And Marco suggests that the competition is not a chess game, but rather, a balancing of scales. However, both the circus and the competition get disordered at times - leaving both physical and emotional casualties in their wake. Is the circus ever really in “balance”, or is it a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the next? Definitely a pendulum. I enjoyed the scale reference, because it was able to put a visual perspective to what the games truly were. 

10. From the outside, the circus is full of enchantments and delights, but behind the scenes, the delicate push and pull of the competition results in some sinister events: i.e. Tara Burgess and Friedric Thiessen’s deaths. How much is the competition at fault for these losses and how much is it the individuals doing? 100% at fault. Tara knew something was amiss and she went asking questions until it drove her to near insanity, and eventually her death. Thiessen wasn’t losing his mind, but something happened and his life was taken much too soon. 

11. How do you view the morality of the circus in regards to the performers and developers being unknowing pawns in Celia and Marco’s competition? Do Celia and Marco owe an explanation to their peers about their unwitting involvement? I think so. I’d want to know that I was essentially being used for these games, whatever they were. 

12. Friedrick Thiessen asserts that he thinks of himself “not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to the circus.” He is a voice for those unable to attend the circus and suggests that the circus is bigger than itself. What role do the reveurs play in keeping the spirit of the circus alive outside of the confines of the circus tents? Reveurs love the circus, though they can likely never explain why. They enjoy the strangeness of it. What sort of circus is only open at night? It’s odd, considering more modern circuses, even those developed after the night circus. Nothing ever could compare, and he wanted people to know and understand the circus like he did. 

13. What is Hector’s role in determining the final fate of the competition? He lectures Celia about remaining independent and not interfering with her partner, but ultimately, Hector largely influences the outcome of the competition. Explain this influence. I didn’t really garner any influence on him other than the fact that he chose Celia as his pawn. Whatever he and Alexander had between themselves, they used innocent people to manipulate each other. 

14. Poppet and Widget are especially affected by the lighting of the bonfire. How crucial are their specialties to the ongoing success of the circus? It appears that a part of the magic that Celia and Marco were born with or were taught was essentially given to the twins when they were born. 

15. Isobel is a silent, yet integral, partner in both the circus and the competition. She has an ally in Tsukiko, but seemingly no one else, especially not Marco. How much does Marco’s underestimation of Isobel affect the outcome of the competition? Isobel was more capable than Marco ever knew. She was able to completely transport him to another country, sort of like Celia did with the circus, which traveled by train. But what train could move across oceans? Magic is the only way. 

16. How does Isobel serve as a foil to Celia? Who, if anyone, fills that role for Marco? Isobel was essentially used to spy on Celia for Marco, until Marco realized that he no longer needed her to do that because of his deep love for her. 

17. Tsukiko is aware of Isobel’s “tempering of the circus” from the outset and when Isobel worries that it is having no effect, Tsukiko suggests: “perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.” What, and whose, chaos is Tsukiko alluding to here? Everyoness 

18. Mr. Barris, Friedrick Thiessen, Mme. Padva, and even Bailey are aware that the circus has made a profound, inexplicable, change in their lives, but they each chosoe not to explore the depth of these changes. Friedrick Thieseen confirms that, “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.” Do you agree with this standpoint? What inherent dangers accompany a purposeful ignorance? What dangers present themselves when ignorance is not chosen? Is one choice better/safer than the other or are they equally fraught? No. If I noticed something amiss with myself, i’d definitely want to know. For Mr. Barris, he wasn’t aging, as many of them weren’t. Who wouldn’t want to age? He didn’t question it because it was affecting him positively, not negatively. 

19. Celia tells Bailey that he is not destined or chosen to be the next proprietor of the circus. He is simply in the right place at the right time...and cares enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough. In this situation, is that enough? Can the responsibility of maintaining the circus be trusted to just anyone, or unlike Celia suggests, is Bailey truly special? Bailey was given the option that neither Celia nor Marco ever had: a choice. Bailey loved the circus, and Poppett enough, to keep it alive, but also because nobody was sure what would happen to Celia and Marco if the circus abrutply ended. He cared enough about the circus, and those within it, not to let that happen. Even in modern times, as at the end of the book, the email is provided, you can see that in modern times, he is still keeping the circus alive. 

20. At the closing of the novel, we are left to believe that the circus is still traveling - Bailey’s business card provides an email address as his contact information. How do you think the circus would fare over time? Would the circus need to evolve to suit each generation or is it distinctive enough to transcend time? Yes. Much like everything else, the circus would have to change in order to keep up with the ever changing world around it. Modern technologies would need to be implemented as opposed to in the early 1900s when technology was less likely to be used. 

Questions issued by the publisher. 

[zarinaa113]

There is so much more you could accomplish with your talents. So much more to explore." "'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,'" "Please, no Shakespeare." "I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please. You used to be quite fond of Shakespeare, Prospero.

The Night Circus

#My Post #Quotes #Funny #Quote #Spoilers #The Night Circus #Shakespeare #Hector Bowen #Irony #Hamlet #Ironic #Celia #The Tempest #Ghost #My Night Circus Post #Iconic Quote #By Zarina A113 #Books #MINE #Double quote!

[acourtofcouture]

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

#the night circus #night circus #le cirque des reves #le cirque des rêves #a night at le cirque des rêves #the challenge #celia bowen #the illusionist #marco alisdair #the man in the grey suit #hector bowen #bailey clarke #widget murray #poppet murray #the murray twins #chandresh christophe lefevre #tsukiko #the contortionist #erin morgenstern #isobel martin #the fortune teller #the rêveurs #rêveurs #rêveur

[readingabookmostofthetimes]

Hector Bowen did fake his own death. What is left of him is genius

#Hector Bowen #the night circus #erin morgenstern

[evasjacks]

Wilting Days- a Night Circus one shot

@revolutionarywriters event 1: "people can live a hundred years without really living a minute" (took the theme of belief, left out the quote)

    There were very few things the boy did not believe in.

Some might attribute that fact to his young age, as he'd only just turned fourteen, a great feat in his eyes though not that grand an accomplishment to anyone else. But the truth, as the boy knew it, was that not believing in a thing served only to close the doors of imagination, barring you from further discovery.

And he wanted to discover it all.

That is only part of the reason he was in the grassy fields on the afternoon of what would be his final day as a student.

He had been staring intently at a small flower tucked between a few tufts of grass, studying its shape, the way a thin vine curled out of the ground, parting for a single oval-shaped leaf before opening up into a violet bloom, hints of yellow staining the inside of the delicate petals. There was a touch of dew still clinging to one of the petals, refusing to part with it despite the breeze attempting to carry it away.

He focuses on that, his tutor's voice in his head, each detail serves a purpose, even if the how is unclear yet.

The boy disagreed. He believed it was not the details that were important, but the full image they created when put together. A person seeing a grass field from the top of a mountain would not notice the residue of rain or the traces of mud from earlier dwellers.

But the test does not care what he believes, so the boy keeps his eyes on the flower until the image is ingrained in his mind, until he knows the flower as well as he knows his own body. The way it sways in the breeze, the way tilts, favoring right to left likely from an incident where it was stepped on, or a more intense storm. 

And then, he lets his eyes slide shut. And to anyone else, he is just a little boy, crouched in an empty field, lost in the beauty of nature,  the feeling of the breeze against his skin.

When his eyes open, he holds his clenched fist out in front of him, and let's his fingers uncurl, one by one.

There, in the center of his palm, is a perfect replica of the flower in the field.

"How did you do that?"

The boy jumps at the sound, tripping over his new boots and falling onto the grass, hands just coming up to stop his fall, and he catches himself, hovering just inches above the grass, his body suspended in the air.

The flower sways gently with the almost-crash.

He scowls at it, and at the unseen voice, frustrated at his lack of focus. Another reason he disliked his mentor's methods was that they required him to be fully consumed in the task, leaving him exposed and vulnerable to any surprises.

The boy lifts himself up without touching the ground, letting his feet settle into the mud so he does not scare the newcomer.

He turns and is surprised to see a girl standing there. Her skin is a deep brown color and her eyes are alight with interest, rather than fear. For a moment, he is too stunned to say anything.

Alexander does not let him talk to very many people.

"I apologise for scaring you," she says, though the amused gleam in her eyes suggests otherwise.

"I was not scared," the boy replies defensively, recalling the hundreds of lessons he'd been forced to endure to 'banish his fears'. "Only surprised."

The girl nods once, though the corner of her mouth lifts slightly in an almost-smile.

"Of course," she concedes, then nods at his closed fist. "Can you show me what you were doing?"

The boy's lessons had involved more thinking than speaking, reading over writing, theory over application. He had not been taught very much about interacting with other people. Particularly, girls who wish to see him display his skills.

He swallows, then opens both hands in front of him, the way he'd seen street magicians trick their audiences- they would tuck a coin into their sleeve or conceal it between two fingers while displaying the other hand and drawing the crowd's attention away from the real trick.

Con men, Alexander called them. But he preferred to think of them as clever men.

The girl gasps, the same way the audience does with every performance, and he feels a surge of pride at the sound.

"But where has the flower gone?" She whispers, leaning in closer to examine his now-empty palms.

It was never enough to make a thing disappear, of course. A good trick good only be fully completed when the magician brought the thing back.

"Let me see your hand," he says, and watches her hesitate for a moment, brown eyes watchful. 

Then she nods, lifting her right hand so it was visible to them both. She frowns.

Nothing happens.

The boy smiles to himself. How many times had he practiced this in the mirror? 

He lets his own two hands cup her's, and hears the girl suck in a surprised breath. There, from the center of her small hand, the same flower grows. The girl gasps, retracting her hand quickly, but he holds on.

Her brown eyes are wide as the boy prompts the flower to blossom anew, still resting in her palm.

"Is this magic?" the girl whispers at last.

"If you want it to be." he says, finding he rather liked having an audience to witness his display.

He gives her a crooked smile, then lets the flower fall into her hand, as natural as if she'd picked it from the shrubbery herself.

The girl lifts the flower between her fingers, curiously, admiring the smooth petals.

Then a voice calls out from across the fields, and she winces.

"I ought to go," she says, holding it out to him. The boy shakes his head.

"It's for you," he says, "to remember me by."

"It will wilt in time, won't it? I can remember you best if you gave me your name."

He considers this for a moment before responding. Alexander does not think names are important, so it would not matter if he shared his own, would it?

"Hector," he says at last, "Hector Bowen."

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─  Can you fix it? ─ Celia asks. Her father looks at the injured dove and then back at his daughter, waiting for her to ask a different question. ─  Can I fix it? ─ she asks after a moment. ─  Go ahead and try,  ─ her father says, handing it to her. Celia gently strokes the trembling dove, staring intently at its broken wing. The bird makes a painful, strangled sound much different than its normal coo. ─  I can’t do it, ─ Celia says with tears in her eyes, lifting the bird up to her father. Hector takes the dove and swiftly twists its neck, ignoring his daughter’s cry of protest ‘The Miners (1) Sculpture’ taxidermy by Kelly McCallum.

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