Sexy doctors, Twistian Workhouses, Giant Ants (and why I was unpopular at school!)

Sep 05, 2016 16:46

I have always written stories. Ever since I learned to string letters together. And when I was not doing that I was narrating everything in my head. (I did it out loud in a sort of whisper as a kid, until people made me stop, at school. I imagine it was irritating. It made the words stick better until I could sort them out and write them down. I ( Read more... )

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ba1126 September 5 2016, 21:19:02 UTC
One of the first movies I saw (that was not a cowboy flick) was THEM, about giant ants. SCARY!!

Workhouses always reminds me of Dickens' Scrooge. "Are there no workhouses?"

Interesting reading, also, is about the "Mill Girls" in early New England, especially Lowell and Lawrence.

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eglantine_br September 6 2016, 04:45:19 UTC

Yes. That passage is as relevant now as ever. Christmas Carol is worth returning to over and over i find.

There are parts that make me cry, the part with the old woman taking his bed-curtain rings, and the two naked children, ignorance and want.

I am not a big fan of Dickens but I love Christmas Carol.

I have been to Lowell of course.  And Fall river. Hard to believe that there was a hopping textile industry once. All gone now.

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ba1126 September 6 2016, 13:24:51 UTC
We watched Christmas Carol every year on Christmas Day, after a full day of presents and family visits. After 'one last gift from Santa*' at my aunt's house, we kids took a plate of food upstairs to watch Scrooge while the adults had a nice meal and maybe a drink or two.

*Santa showed up in person, and you had to sing, or recite a poem, or play your guitar,etc. before Santa gave you your gift.WONDERFUL memories!

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wosny September 6 2016, 07:45:06 UTC
It has long been a problem, the deserving and the undeserving poor, and reminds me that we have sometimes difficulty accepting that unpleasant people can be innocent in a legal sense, which was the underlying theme of the Steven Avery case. I don't know if he is innocent, I do know that he is an unpleasant character...however that is not a reason to lock him up, or there would be a lot of people locked up including the President of the Philippines and Donald Trump!
We have this devastating situation with the refugees in Calais, and the arguments about whether they "deserve" to be accepted into Europe, which breaks my heart. There is room, there is enough to share...but we have a government that just wants to slam the door. :(

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