Out of Context

Everything That's in My Attic

  • Empty Larder Days

    Getting through our first week of March Oliver TwistCharles Dickens This dialogue was held between the two men who had surprised the burglars, and a travelling tinker who had been sleeping in an outhouse, and who had been roused, together with his two mongrel curs, to join in the pursuit. Mr. Giles acted in the Continue reading

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  • Lunatic in the Rain

    The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins “I shall talk of something else presently. My good friend, you are on the edge of your domestic precipice, and if I let you give the women one other chance, on my sacred word of honour they will push you over it!” “What the devil do you mean?” “We will Continue reading

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  • Rehearsing My Future

    Our 75th post overall David CopperfieldCharles Dickens ‘What, not in your own, eh?’ Mr. Omer returned, laughing. ‘All the better, sir. Bad habit for a young man. Take a seat. I smoke, myself, for the asthma.’ Mr. Omer had made room for me, and placed a chair. He now sat down again very much out Continue reading

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  • Mœurs de province

    Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert And he at once took down from the shelf Emma’s boots, all coated with mud, the mud of the rendezvous, that crumbled into powder beneath his fingers, and that he watched as it gently rose in a ray of sunlight. “How afraid you are of spoiling them!” said the servant, who wasn’t Continue reading

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  • Broadcasting Live

    Perfume Genius – What a Difference a Day Makes (The New Look: Season One) STRFKR – Under Water/In Air – Parallel RealmsSt. Vincent – Broken Man – All Born ScreamingFuture Islands – Iris – People Who Aren’t There AnymoreElliott Smith – Waltz #2 – XO Ty Segall – Hi Dee Dee – Three BellsMiddle Kids Continue reading

  • Rubber Soul

    Another rainy Sunday in March The Invisible ManH.G. Wells The story he had been active to ridicule only that morning rushed through Kemp’s brain. He does not appear to have been either very much frightened or very greatly surprised at the moment. Realisation came later. “I thought it was all a lie,” he said. The Continue reading

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  • The Dazzling Crime of Wisdom

    Far From the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy She had walked nearly two miles of her journey, watching how the day was retreating, and thinking how the time of deeds was quietly melting into the time of thought, to give place in its turn to the time of prayer and sleep, when she beheld advancing over Yalbury Continue reading

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  • Glue and Tar

    While yesterday was our 60th Out of Context reading, today is our 70th post overall. Lord JimJoseph Conrad Such was the history of the man whom I had come to consult upon Jim’s case without any definite hope. Simply to hear what he would have to say would have been a relief. I ws very Continue reading

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  • Diving Through the Night

    It’s Leap Day, and this is our 60th reading. Sister CarrieTheodore Dreiser The individual to whom the manager had been talking went away quite crestfallen. That luminary gazed earnestly at some papers before him, as if they were of the greatest concern. “Did you see that in the ‘Herald’ this morning about Nat Goodwin, Harris?” Continue reading

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  • Alive, Alive, Oh!

    It’s Leap Day Eve, the penultimate day of February this year. UlyssesJames Joyce –Gob, there’s many a true word spoken in jest. One of those mixed middlings he is. Lying up in the hotel Pisser was telling me once a month with headache like a totty with her courses. Do you know what I’m telling Continue reading

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