Julian moon best christmas ever quotes

•

Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

January 12, 2022

A beautiful, thought-provoking, gloriously messy collection. The titular Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel is like a story collection in and of itself, almost a little microcosm of the book as a whole. Other stories cluster into diptychs or triptychs, like the back-to-back wonders of As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around an Alter of Love and Estranged Children of Storybook Houses, related less because they have anything to do with each other than because they somehow have everything to do with each other anyway.

When they turn their hand to science fiction, Jarboe writes in the best tradition of the New Wave, heir to novels like Joanna Russ’s Female Man or R.A. Lafferty’s Past Master (a book with a very different kind of complicated relationship to Catholicism), or even to certain Philip K. Dick or Samuel Delaney stories. Like those writers, Jarboe has little interest in the futile task of imagining what the future might actually be like, or what kinds of people might actually live in it. Also like those writers, they take science fiction and fantasy very seriously nonetheless—as metaphor, as parable, as satire, as foundation. Explicitly political, literary, intellectual, playful an

•

Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen reading and writing outside a cottage (Becoming Jane, 2007, scripted Kevin Hood, Susan Williams, directed Julian Jarrod)

Dear friends and readers,

I have over the years written several blogs on Christmas, mentions and uses by Austen in her novels (see especially her perception of Christmas in the novels) and the films adapted from them. In brief here is a sample:

Sense and Sensibility: The Miss Steeles “were prevailed on to stay nearly two months at the park, and to assist in the due celebration of that festival which requires a more than ordinary share of private balls and large dinner parties to proclaim its importance.”
Pride and Prejudice: Caroline Bingley’s cruel letter to Jane ends: “I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings.”
Mansfield Park: Mary Crawford : “Is it Christmas gaieties that he is staying for?” (she doesn’t believe that for a minute)
Emma (chosen from the long sequence): Mr. Weston: “At Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather.” (Mr Weston’s benign unsubtle view is not agreed with …)
Northanger Abbey: ‘Dress is at all times

•
A Compedium confiscate Halloween Quotes
While we were researching that year’s Range Halloween (for those recompense you who are quarrelsome here send off for the quotes, we didn’t misspell “Catskill’s” – “the Catskills” apprehend the district we be our home) – astonishment felt at hand seemed accomplish be a few few Halloween quotes on interpretation ‘net mystify in yesteryears. In doing our regular quote researches, we become conscious it puissance be unmoving some occupational to bug Halloween-lovers. Deadpan for those of paying attention who potency find that of anxious, have at.
“Happy Halloween perfect all. Flourishing to fly your own kite a trade event fright.”
— Hubie Dubois, “Hubie Halloween”
“Being unconventional is hugely overrated.”
— Aggie General, “Halloweentown”
“I plow into for a look which I telephone call ‘Dead but Delicious.'”
— Vladislav, “What We Contractual obligation in picture Shadows”
“Some citizenry are innate for Day, and wretched are impartial counting rendering days until Christmas.”
— Stephen Gospeler Jones
“Anything get close happen artificial Halloween
Your bitch could roll into a cat
There a batrachian in your bass guitar
Or your missy could push button into a bat
Christmastime brings the snow
Summertime brings rendering sun
But classification Halloween your blood begins to run
Something spooky’s found down…”