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this is my commonplace book overflow channel

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@tylrmntg the aspen papers, the turn of the screw maybe. personally i started with the bostonians and i find it a very fun one, but if i could only read a single james novel in my life id pick the portrait of a lady.

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1. constantin héger on emily brontë (via elizabeth gaskell)

2. virginia woolf on charlotte brontë

3. theodora bosanquet on henry james

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@tylrmntg 🙏🏾 i’m honored!! i would say if you want full-strength james without any of the lassitude that readers sometimes feel from his late works, start with the portrait of a lady.

alternatively, if you want to get a feel, maybe some of the novellas & stories: daisy miller…

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impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains

1. robert motherwell, drunk with turpentine no.32, 1979.

2. the footnote to holmes’s ether anecdote

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gerard manley hopkins: “what i do is me”

gwendolyn brooks: “each body has its art”

robert mattison: “[the painting] seems very much like me.”

drunk with turpentine no. 32, 1979.

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one transcription of “the one great truth which underlies all human experience”:

“a strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout.”

oliver wendell holmes sr., “mechanism in thought and morals, 1871.

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beautiful pics from the freud museum:

1. anna freud & dorothy burlingham with burlingham’s children in vienna in the 30s (anna had been their analyst)

2 + 3. freud & burlingham in england

4. burlingham at age 87 in 1978, the year before she died

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happy birthday shirley maclaine, and s/o to all the skirt and blouse characters

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dorothy burlingham, sigmund freud’s “dragon-in-chief” in the eyes of h.d., was born on this day in 1891.

letter to bryher, 4 march 1933

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jessie & bessie: “we mother each other reciprocally…”

dorothy burlingham & anna freud, infants without families, 1943.

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part of a lover’s discourse that i have been thinking about the last few weeks

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john cotton, cotton mather, elizabeth bishop, and adrienne rich all had stints in massachusetts, the land of puritanism and staid congregationalism.

see the “rocky breasts” and stone foundations below

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the end of “at the fishhouses,” elizabeth bishop, pub. 1955

the end of “transcendental etude,” adrienne rich, pub. 1978

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my favorite moment of the red sox season

ranger suárez, red sox vs. white sox, 4 august 2026

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my fav recent screenshots

1. desert hearts, 1985
2. the aggressives, 2005, with a ricki lake show clip
3. party girl, 1995
4. pride divide, 1997

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cleaning out my camera roll…

1. i like the interior design in the 2004 catwoman

2. i was going to buy this for my dad for christmas lmfao

3. regarding susan sontag, 2014

4. sidney poitier and diahann carroll in paris blues, 1961

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whistler’s mother / mother: whistler

tove jansson, comet in moominland, 1946. trans. elizabeth portch, 1951

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2 stories i read about shelley this week

1. “extract of a letter from geneva,” john polidori, pub. 1819

2. elizabeth bishop to robert lowell, 30 june 1948

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“studies in feminine inversion,” f.w. stella browne, 1923.

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cf. d.a. miller on “the human toothpick case” robert ferrars and the scene in sense & sensibility where he’s giving orders for his own in the jewelry shop; esp his “activist materialization of insignificance”

(jane austen, or the secret of style, 2003.)

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(the staunch tory) charlotte brontë on the events of 1848:

“with the french and irish i have no sympathy. with the germans and italians i think the case is different.”

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charlotte brontë to ellen nussey, 23 december 1848

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as far as thackeray was concerned, the battle of waterloo led to “one death and one bankruptcy.”

from a review of vanity fair by elizabeth rigby, lady eastlake, 1848.

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@cielosueloastro 🙏🏾 no thank you!! you’ve really inspired me to look up his writing

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@becimay but at my back i always hear / time’s winged chariot hurrying near

(bonus: the grave’s a fine and private place / but none i think do there embrace ?)

+ but i have promises to keep / and miles to go before i sleep

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“madame can your baby tell us anything of pre-existence?”

the baby & the corpse can’t fill us in bc “their apparatus for communicating their experiences is not attuned to our apparatus for reception.”

e.m. forster, aspects of the novel, 1927.

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“…can your baby tell us anything of pre-existence?”

amy king, bloom: the botanical vernacular in the english novel, 2003

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@fabulistress also re: the great work nancy kulp (herself a lesbian) did w/the homely secretary archetype, there’s a great interview where she talks a lot about how she felt playing miss h. & what the job was like. i’d be happy to send or screenshot it if you’re interested!

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@fabulistress omg this thread (and also your username) made my day!! i grew up watching beverly hillbillies reruns and being bewildered that nobody else in my family loved her the way i did (guess why…)

i’m sooo tickled that miss hathaway is still out here winning hearts and minds ❣️