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Published 1878
Set on the heavenly heath. The summit of the barrow, undulating folds of the field.
Secret grassy swales for lovers to hide.
The heathmen burn the furze on the Fifth of November. Men and women dance around the wispy flames.
Enter Suitor One: A reddleman. He’s colored red from toe to head. The ocher used to mark the flock permeates his clothing and skin. He loves Thomasin Yeobright deeply and earnestly. Introducing, Diggory Venn.
Enter Suitor Two: He’s a failed professional, maintains tryst with the best women, talks sweet like molasses on a hot summer day. Introducing, Damon Wildeve.
Enter Suitor Three: He’s the cousin of one of our lovely heroines. Kissing cousins. This young man comes straight from Paris with cosmopolitan ideas and big town disillusions. Introducing, Clym Yeobright.
The story on the heath is perfect.
The women are soft as clouds.
The text is pious as a dove.
Introducing the Heroines:
Heroine one. She wants to be married, her good character is on the line. She is lovely and agreeable. Thomasin Yeobright.
Heroine two: After realizing her man was rejected by her rival, she loses all respect for him and marks a bullseye directly on Mr. Cosmopolitan. There’s no hope for him. She is devious, collected, and extremely beautiful. Eustacia Vye.
What’s going to happen?!
The reddleman’s love is so pure, he encourages the marriage of his beloved to his rival to save her good name and character.
Eustacia is so cunning you are compelled to fall in love with her.
The heath plays the best character. I was immediately enchanted by the heathmen and their fires.
Secret grassy swales for lovers to hide.
The Native Son Returns, falls in love with the wrong woman, makes a fool of himself, is filled with wrong ideals, generally an extremist, objectionable on every measure. Proceeds to make glorious mess out of everything.
Dear Mr. Thomas Hardy,
For shame, sir. Must love be a tragedy? I want to dance and sing. For shame, sir.
I now call on Eustacia Vye, “Eustacia, my love! Dump Wildeve and Clym and go with me to Paris! I love you!”
To Thomasin: I’ll be your reddleman if it pleases you. Affectionately yours forever.
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Notes: Ask Circe. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruddle#h1
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Highlight: The traveller with the cart was a reddleman — a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep.
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“No, sir, I have a woman.”
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Highlight: Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against that fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death. Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
Notes: The warmth and power of THE FLAME.
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Highlight: the double insult to a man unlucky enough to be cursed with sensitiveness, and blue demons, and Heaven knows what, as I am.
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Highlight: All that can be said against mead is that ‘tis rather heady, and apt to lie about a man a good while. But tomorrow’s Sunday, thank God.
Notes: Alcohol is a terrible poison and should only be used to conjure love spirit. Can i pour u a glass of wine?
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Notes: Ask Circe – https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004780205.0001.000/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
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Highlight: Why shouldn’t I have a bonfire on the Fifth of November, like other denizens of the heath?”
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Highlight: Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnight; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in Athalie; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola. In a dim light, and with a slight rearrangement of her hair, her general figure might have stood for that of either of the higher female deities. The new moon behind her head, an old helmet upon it, a diadem of accidental dewdrops round her brow, would have been adjuncts sufficient to strike the note of Artemis, Athena, or Hera respectively, with as close an approximation to the antique as that which passes muster on many respected canvases.
Notes: Isn’t she lovely. Isn’t she wonderful!
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Notes: Red pigment consisting of ochre.
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Highlight: what was the man worth whom a woman inferior to herself did not value?
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Notes: Glad to meet you.
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Notes: vs. saint Nick. Ask Circe.
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Notes: LION.
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Highlight: Ah, yes, it is very well to see things in that business point of view,” murmured Eustacia with a smothered fire of feeling.
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Notes: Dancing in the moonlight.
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“I certainly would,
Notes: positive exchange rate. Arbitrage.
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Notes: Great work.
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Highlight: some good simple quality of his would occasionally return to her memory and stir a momentary throb of hope that he would again present himself before her.
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Highlight: As Eustacia crossed the firebeams she appeared for an instant as distinct as a figure in a phantasmagoria — a creature of light surrounded by an area of darkness; the moment passed, and she was absorbed in night again.
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Notes: ¡
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Notes: Well done.
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Notes: PYT
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Highlight: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived
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Notes: Hello. My name is Peter.
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Notes: Pepper.Works