{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"696: Chs 3-4 \u2014 Mr. Harrison's Confessions","description":"Ep. 696: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 3-4 Book talk begins at 25:15 Pears, parties, and peculiar housemates\u2014Mr. Harrison\u2019s adventures just keep getting more awkward (and more entertaining). --------------------------------------------------------------- SEPTEMBER Raffle - Box of Raffle by Andrew Ordover THIS WEEK\u2019S TEA: https:\/\/bit.ly\/craftlit-pdtea Farley's Bookshop! Don't forget to send us your crafty videos Durham U English Courselist And a close up of a class and one from the U of York (thank you LilyM) We caught Hank Mansplaining Knitting The Ultimate \u201cWe Have Notes\u201d video from @KristineVike And the evil of Private Equity predatory practices (actually, she has a LOT of useful informational videos!) Spectacular FIXED SciShow video: I Remade the SciShow Knitting Video (with accurate SCIENCE) https:\/\/youtu.be\/5btQokB32dQ Solomon\u2019s Seal: Dutch Tiles\u2014as with Cranford, these were out of style when the story was written\/takes place. They have a resurgence of popularity during the Arts & Crafts movement: https:\/\/www.regtsdelfttiles.com\/antique-delft-wall-tile-18th-century-horseman-in-manganese-rosette-corner-motifs.html The Jargonelle pear (Pyrus communis \u2018Jargonelle\u2019) is an ancient, hardy, long-lived pear variety, first mentioned in the 17th century. It produces medium-sized, yellow-green fruit with a reddish flush and musky, sweet, juicy flesh, ripe in late summer. The fruit must be eaten fresh as it does not store well. Sir Astley Cooper & Sir Robert Peel again Duncombe (silent final \u201cbe\u201d) The back room was my consulting-room (\u201cthe library,\u201d he advised me to call it), and he gave me a skull to put on the top of my bookcase, in which the medical books were all ranged on the conspicuous shelves; while Miss Austen, Dickens and Thackeray were, by Mr. Morgan himself, skilfully placed in a careless way, upside down or with their backs turned to the wall. HA! Women\u2019s veils: https:\/\/www.sewhistorically.com\/mourning-in-the-1850s\/ deep widow\u2019s mourning; such veils and fails, and capes and cloaks, that she looked like a black crape1 haycock2. very mal-\u00e0propos that I could hardly keep from smiling; 3but I would not have done it for the world, \u2026 \u2018\u201cI have the \u2018dognoses\u2019 of my dear husband\u2019s complaint in my desk, Mr. Harrison, if you would like to draw up the case for the Lancet.4 : Mrs. Malaprop is a comedic character from Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. She is a pretentious and self-important aunt who constantly makes humorous verbal blunders by using words that sound similar to, but are inappropriate for, the intended word. This type of linguistic error is now known as a malapropism. Her name is derived from the French term \u201cmal \u00e0 propos,\u201d which means \u201cinappropriate\u201d or \u201cpoorly placed\u201d. ***a memorable scene occurs when she instructs her niece, Lydia Languish, on the importance of controlling her passions, famously advising her to begin matrimony with \u201ca little aversion,\u201d and later attempts to describe Lydia\u2019s headstrong nature by calling her \u201cas headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile\u201d. then She tells Lydia that she must forget the young man, saying, \u201cBut I say it is, miss; there is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I\u2019m sure I have as much forgot your poor dear uncle as if he had never existed\u201d. 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