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Why Won't My Dogs Walk Down The Stairs Today?
For the first year of their existence, both dogs refused to walk down stairs, preferring instead to be carried. As we live on the fourth-floor of a…
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Daniel Lavery
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Sense and Sensibility, Part III
Parts One and Two here: “Do you ever look at somebody and think to yourself: I just know that man’s going to buy me a horse.” SIR JOHN: Willoughby a…
Mar 15
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Daniel Lavery
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Middlemarch: The Video Game
"Is that more new furniture, Lydgate? But you already have so much!"
Mar 13
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Daniel Lavery
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Sense and Sensibility, Part II
WILLOUGHBY: Are you free to get your hopes up tomorrow around midafternoon?
Mar 11
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Daniel Lavery
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Sense and Sensibility
Do you ever look at somebody and think to yourself: I just know that man’s going to buy me a horse
Mar 8
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Daniel Lavery
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
MR. ENFIELD: Do you see that shabby-looking door over there? Any idea who lives there? MR. UTTERSON: I see it, but I don’t know the man. MR. ENFIELD: I…
Mar 6
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Daniel Lavery
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The Case For Rice Pudding
Rice pudding ought to be immaculate and profound, like a very deep, very cold swimming-pond in the middle of an unworked field.
Mar 4
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Daniel Lavery
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Shogun, Episode One
The new Shogun is so far a lot of very silly fun and I am having a wonderful time. It’s incredible the difference between a really good silly period…
Mar 1
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Daniel Lavery
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February 2024
Sibling Vs. Only Child Cinema: You Never Meet Anyone New in Beauty and the Beast
If the blonde triplets who share Belle's face and deride her sexual object choice aren't older-sister-coded, I'll eat my hat
Feb 27
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Daniel Lavery
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Have A Little Cow. No Harm In It
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods…
Feb 22
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"I've Been Dropping Hints That I'm Not Rude, Bored, Or Untrustworthy"
A few weeks ago I invited readers with a low-stakes problem of etiquette to send their questions to me, and I’m answering some of them here. Let’s go…
Feb 21
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Other Team Sports Should Get Their Own Harlem Globetrotters, Too
I believe I speak for people — the people, generally — when I say that it would be a very good thing if other sports, and not just basketball, had their…
Feb 20
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