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The women seem suspended in a state somewhere between melancholy and fury and are surrounded by old men in strange beards that look as if someone had dabbed glue at random points on their faces, and then hurled buckets of white hair in their direction.
this sentence made me go "huh?" and then laugh. Honestly I could see why the women look that way, but he has such odd takes/descriptions and fails to clarify.
— Jan 07, 2026 08:58PM
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this sentence made me go "huh?" and then laugh. Honestly I could see why the women look that way, but he has such odd takes/descriptions and fails to clarify.
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It is true that in this time people set their faces hard for photographs, partly from custom, partly because of deficits in photographic technology, but this crowd might not have smiled for the better part of a century
(lol)
— Jan 07, 2026 08:56PM
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(lol)
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"She was seventeen, Crippen thirty and already a widower, but the distance between them was not as great as chronology alone suggested, for Miss Turner had the demeanor and physical presence of a woman much older." (!???) "Her figure was full and inevitably drew forth the adjective voluptuous."
HUH? Call me modern and uptight but I got a lotttt of issues with the way he's portraying this situation.
— Jan 07, 2026 08:55PM
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HUH? Call me modern and uptight but I got a lotttt of issues with the way he's portraying this situation.
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When men first encountered sparks, as when a lightning bolt incinerated their neighbors, they had no idea of their nature or cause, only that they arrive with a violence unlike anything else in the world.
— Jan 07, 2026 08:52PM
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In the beginning, in the invisible realm where electromagnetic energy traveled, there was emptiness. Such energy did exist, of course, and traveled in the form of waves launched from the sun or by lightning or any random spark, but these emanations rocketed past without meaning or purpose, at the speed of light.
— Jan 07, 2026 08:51PM
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"My chief trouble was that the idea was so elementary, so simple in logic that it seemed difficult to believe no one else had thought of putting it into practice." —Marconi
— Jan 07, 2026 04:37PM
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