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Chapter 8: Cracks in the Porcelain
andy cannon commented on BrokenBoundariesGayErotica's story chapter in Chapter 8: Cracks in the Porcelain
Thanks! Now I'll be singing that song from Damn Yankees all night! -
I thought I was becoming forgetful in my old age. Now I know that the Anachronism Network is planting contradictions in my 1970s, 1980s and 1990s streams! I feel so much better knowing that!
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Much drama in the next installment, so I hope you aren't disappointed when you read it!
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Very descriptive chapter.
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Jimmy had nodded at that, learning a very important lesson about trusting pricks with personal data, especially Bankers. That's a bitter lesson that so many folks have to learn.
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I hope from a drama perspective that is a certainty!
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Great chapter. Festive times for all concerned!
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Too true!
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A bitter debate that has raged for a while with no end in sight. One man's prison is another's essential source of structure and support.
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A beautiful story of a man's discovery of family secrets after a death and how letters from the past can both disrupt lives and instigate healing. A well written piece of fiction.
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Gorgeous writing! You trust the reader to interpret small gestures and read into the silence between the lines.
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The Mask and the Sword The HMS Absolute had arrived under cover of night, and by morning the men lately of the Belle Thérèse were assembled at the harbour to rejoin their ship. Pitt strode onto the dock, pleased to see the crew waiting more or less in formation, with the three young midshipmen standing stiffly at the fore. Beyond the mouth of the bay, the Absolute rested in the anchorage... sleek and imperious, her dark hull catching the early light like the blade of a drawn sword. As
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I once told a man on a train in Croatia the name of the company I work for, which has something like 42,000 employees worldwide, and he promptly told me he had collaborated with some engineers from the same company in Mexico and asked me if I knew them. He was deeply suspicious of my ignorance of these guys like I was some kind of fraud,
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A chill ran up my spine as I realized I wasn’t in a garden. It was a cemetery. Yikes! Great start to this story!
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Big game coming up!
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Will You Bite Me If I Ask?
andy cannon commented on Laura S. Fox's story chapter in Will You Bite Me If I Ask?
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Superman and Lex In: Unexpected Discoveries
andy cannon reviewed Ticklishboy30's story in FanFiction
A well-written little tale with a different slant on familiar characters, Well worth the time it takes to read.-
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I think you made the right choice. Great story!
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An exciting take on these familiar characters. I'll never look at Tom Welling the same way again after reading this!
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Under the best of circumstances, contemporary opera is a hard sell. Billy Budd is nearing 80 years old, and with the exception of Dialougues des Carmelites, I would be hard pressed to think of a more recent work that has made much of a dent in the international standard repertoire. I better stick to fiction since the audience for opera is well informed and notoriously opinionated in their tastes as you so astutely observe. They know what they like, and they like what they know.
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There is a precedent for sea-born tales turned into operas with all-male casts, Britten's Billy Budd and Heggie's Moby-Dick come to mind, although the Heggie has a trouser role for a soprano as a cabin boy if I recall correctly. What this opera needs is a mermaid or two providing running commentary on the action. Or maybe a coloratura seagull?
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Wonderful story! We are all lucky that Isaac Newton didn't have a Marcus around to kill his genius, otherwise he wouldn't have invented gravity to keep us from flying off into space, and he wouldn't have used a prism to invent rainbows to keep Pride Parades from being all monochromatic!
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That is an intriguing question, one that I have no definitive answer for. Pitt is correct that it is a bit of theater staged by the mysterious Robespire to provoke Pitt in some way. The letter could be a confession or a condemnation of co-conspirators, an accusation of crimes he has witnessed or a reminder to the laundry that he wants light starch in his shirts. Ultimately it is a goad to Pitt that the prisoner held more power than the 'free' man who is restrained by his sense of honor. Had Pitt violated the moral character that Robespire ascribes to him and seized the letter, he certainly would find something totally innocuous that there was no reason to take such pain to hide. That overreaction would be another chance for Pitt to be mocked.
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That would be interesting. In the back of my mind I sometimes see a young Alex Pettifer as Jamie and a young Jack Davenport as William Pitt. Other times I think of the characters as the cast of an opera: countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński as Jamie Blake, baritone Tobias Greenhalgh as William Pitt, tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Edward Vane (he figures more prominently in the later chapters), and bass Günther Groissböck as Huxley , each singing his own melody à la the Rigoletto quartet.
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Glad you are enjoying it. We're nearing the halfway mark, so there's plenty more on the horizon.
