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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 9m

"...her substitution of painting for writing, as if the two were interchangeable. The book is obviously about herself, he says, and yet she knows nothing at all about painting."
Ch.5 #RachelCuskTogether #Outline So many levels- could be about Angeliki or Cusk or any such writer.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 17h

'will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.' When you are in the moment, entirely immersed in being it, you run the risk of this happening. How can you be in it and still have that edge of awareness at the same time? Can you?

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 45m

Stopped me too- never thought of myself as the mountain, always as the climber with eyes on the apex (and lately as climber trying to not fall or turn back.)

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13h

This beautiful passage feels like a stylistic aside for Cusk. Atmosphere overlaps structure with near-poetry. It has the luxuriousness of Proust...or being Greece, is it a nod to Durrell?

#RacheCuskTogether

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 49m

All 3!
Been eyeing my Durrell while reading Outline- #AlexandriaQuartet . . .

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Miss Mainwaring @miss-mainwaring.bsky.social · 22h

did some research on Henry VIII play. all academics discussing religion, state, royalty, Elizabeth etc. I'd love to read a dramatist's view. V, 4 such a brilliant scene. The cause of the rabble not revealed up front. The common man dialect. The offstage mob. just brilliant. #henryviii_2025

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 53m

Always fun to read with you- looking forward to #KingLear_2025 !

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 54m

Agree and disagree!

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 54m

That is my philosophy, most of the time. (Until my dumb back gives out from the sudden change in temperature, arghh.)

christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 56m

Still sent tingles to my toes.

christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 57m

#HenryVIII_2025 Day 29, 10/15- Act V s4

GARTER.
Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous life, long, and every happy, to the high and mighty Princess of England, Elizabeth.

Thanks for reading together & hope to see everyone for #KingLear_2025 beginning Oct. 20th, Monday!

christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 21h

If I'm winkled!

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 21h

The BBC miniseries had changed that scene! I was very surprised reading it after watching the show.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“…and all at once you’ll be right there at around the time Humphrey Bogart drove a ‘38 Plymouth (poetic license; I don’t know what he drove).” (p51) 😂😂

“…the fact that mountains & hills come so close down to the main streets. I always find it heartbreakingly unselfconscious.” (p52)
#NYRBWomen25

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rpmoon.bsky.social @rpmoon.bsky.social · 1d

"Those people were living in their moment, and though I could set it I could no more return to that moment than I would walk across the water that separated us. And those two ways of living--living in the moment and living outside of it--which was the more real?" p75
+1
#rachelcusktogether

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

Me too!!

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 1d

#RachelCuskTogether

Day 13

"There was no longer a shared vision, a shared reality even. Each of them saw things now solely from his own perspective: there was only point of view."

At this point, I feel like this is what the novel(s) are about: perspective, point of view.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

"It seemed incredible to me that at the age of fifty-one I was still capable of producing, in all innocence, a completely unrealisable hope." ch.5

#RachelCuskTogether #Outline

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

CHAMBERLAIN.
There's a trim rabble let in: are all those
Your faithful friends o'th'suburbs? We shall have
Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,
When they pass back from the christening!

Act V s3 #HenryVIII_2025 Expecting lots o' ladies again. Anne's popular with the common women...?

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

I also like that the "suburbs" were "areas outside the City walls and its jurisdiction, known for lawlessness and prostitution" ! (RSC annotation)

Thought this was a 20th c. word. 🧐

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

I also like that the "suburbs" were "areas outside the City walls and its jurisdiction, known for lawlessness and prostitution" ! (RSC annotation)

Thought this was a 20th c. word. 🧐

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

Inneristing- Louisianans pronounce Paris Road as "Parish"! (runs through a town east of New Orleans called Chalmette (home of the Chalmette Battlefields from the Battle of New Orleans, 1815)). Seeing lots of British language influences in the American Deep South dialect.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

Inneristing- Louisianans pronounce Paris Road as "Parish"! (runs through a town east of New Orleans called Chalmette (home of the Chalmette Battlefields from the Battle of New Orleans, 1815)). Seeing lots of British language influences in the American Deep South dialect.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

I disliked the quiet ending less than the first time- perhaps include Gaskell's bio of Charlotte after we read all of the fiction?

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds good too!