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I am tired of everyone keeping their secrets so well that they get other people killed. We are all involved in your game, and it seems we are not as easily repaired as teacups.

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

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[russnightlife]

For those who need it: a full list of every name in Toast of London. Credit here:

Full list of character names from the Toast of London Universe:

Steven Toast

Jane Plough

Ray Purchase

Kenton Schweppes

Ed Hauser Black

Goodhouse

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[shiftingmuse]

This mobile-friendly page is defined by my ability to write as these characters. The characters on the page are subject to change at any time.

The Accountant {Drive Angry}

FACE CLAIM: William Fichtner AGE: Unknown STATUS: Unknown SEXUALITY: Fluent OCCUPATION: Right Hand of the Devil

Q {Star Trek Universe}

FACE CLAIM: John De Lancie AGE: ??? STATUS: Active SEXUALITY: Yes? OCCUPATION: Q Continuum

Harry Vanderspeigle {Resident Alien}

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Frik {Merlin 1998}

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Morgan Le Fay {Merlin 1998}

FACE CLAIM: Helena Bonham Carter AGE: 20s STATUS: Active SEXUALITY: Uncertain OCCUPATION: Former Princess

Oliver Putnam {OMITB}

FACE CLAIM: Martin Short AGE: 70s STATUS: Active SEXUALITY: Bisexually-Open OCCUPATION: Theater Director/Murder Mystery Producer

Rupert Giles {Buffy Verse}

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Annalee Call {Alien Resurrection.}

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[marypsue]

Also!! For the writing meme (if you’d like!!) 11,16,32,39, and whichever you want to answer!!

[from this meme]

11 I have answered, but I'll do the others!

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

I actually haven't had a plotbunny for a new fanfiction in a while. I'm still plugging away trying to get my five current WIPs wrapped up (former heroes, the ageswap AU, the bodyswap AU, the robber bridegroom and other stories, and, yes, still, the sequel to Reincarnation Blues).

I have four original fiction WIPs that I haven't put into long-term cold storage (yet): Fearleading Squad, Le Morte d'Artificial Intelligence, Circus Luna, and the one I've just been calling prairie gods. It has an inspiration tag. I don't think I've shared anything about it. It's an experiment.

And I have also just recently been bitten hard by a new origfic idea, which is shaping up into an actual story with something resembling an outline and everything. At the moment, I'm calling it Girls, Ghosts, and Meathooks. You know, after Carol J. Clover's 'Men, Women, and Chainsaws'. I'm hilarious.

32. Name three of your favorite fanfic writers.

Neil Gaiman, Diane Duane, and Mercedes Lackey!

(Wait, was this not the assignment?)

39. Share a snippet from a WIP

Have one from tam lin's twin, the last piece in the robber bridegroom and other stories!

...

El calls the nowhere place where she and Will first met, the lightless void that doesn’t exist outside of both of their heads, the in between.

This place isn’t it. This is somewhere different. Something different.

Will’s starting to understand better, now. This place – it’s not, actually, a place, exactly. Sort of the same way the void, the in between, isn’t exactly a place. But he’s really here. Very much the way he wasn’t really there, when he visited his friends in the void.

He’s really here.

And this place doesn’t want him to be.

Something’s hunting him. It has been since he – arrived. Will still doesn’t entirely understand how he got here. All he remembers clearly is the panic. All he remembers clearly is the way the lights all flickered, the rising grate of the alarm.

And the screaming.

He doesn’t entirely understand why he’s being hunted, either. Or what he’s being hunted by. All he knows is that he is. And that he doesn’t want to know what happens if he gets caught.

So he’s been running. He’s been hiding.

So far, Will’s been lucky. So far, whatever’s been hunting him hasn’t been able to catch him. But there’s something else. The longer he’s here, alone and cold and tired and scared and starting to get hungry, the longer he’s trapped and helpless and relentlessly hunted, the more worn down he gets, the more Will can feel himself…slipping.

It wasn’t easy, exactly, the things El showed him about not getting lost, about not losing control. But it was something he’d gotten to be able to do without having to think about it. When he was relatively safe in the facility, anyway. When he knew what the dangers were and they came on a predictable schedule.

But here…nothing is predictable. Will doesn’t know anything about what to expect, or what the dangers are. Other than that everything’s dangerous. And his – whatever Martin did to him, whatever they did to his mind, his, his – powers –

It’s like when everything started, all over again. Like it was when everything was new. It’s taking all of Will’s concentration to keep it in check. And in a place that’s constantly trying to kill him, he doesn’t always have the concentration to spare.

He’s not sure what happened, exactly, when his friends tried to contact him. The same way he’s not sure exactly what happened to bring him here. It’s a blur. Will just remembers Mike saying that they’d told people. Told the police. He just remembers how it brought back the hazy, half-conscious memory of Martin and the state troopers, that last night he’d gone to sleep in his own bed and woken up for a moment or two while he was being bundled into the windowless back of a van. He just remembers the bone-deep panic.

Will doesn’t remember exactly what happened, when his friends tried to contact him. But he thinks – he thinks it was something bad.

He wants to go home.

But maybe. If this place isn’t the only reason Will can’t keep his – his powers under control. If getting out won’t fix them.

Maybe he can’t.

[synchronousemma]

8th August: John and Isabella Knightley, the two eldest boys, Harriet Smith, and Robert Martin go to Astley's

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Context

Mr. Knightley instructs Robert Martin to deliver some papers to John Knightley; John invites Robert to join their party that evening.

We know that this occurs two days before Robert Martin proposes again, “five weeks” after Harriet learned of Mr. Knightley’s engagement (vol 3, ch. 18 [54]; p. 313).

Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre was an early equestrian circus in London.

Readings and Interpretations

Adventures at Astley’s

We, along with Emma, learn about this event after the fact. Margaret Doody writes that despite Emma’s “London touches, no direct dramatic scene really takes place in Town. We remain fixed with Emma in Highbury, in Surrey” (p. 342).

Robert Martin’s invitation to join the John Knightley party at Astley’s seems a result of Mr. George Knightley’s intervention. Laurie Kaplan notes that, “[i]n a role that is quite new for him, Mr. Knightley becomes a match-maker: he asks Robert Martin to take some papers to John at his chambers in London; John and Isabella extend hospitality to Robert, who attends Astley’s with them, their two eldest boys, and Harriet” (p. 245). I am reminded of an earlier conversation between Emma and Knightley:

“If I had not promoted Mr. Weston’s visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all. I think you must know Hartfield enough to comprehend that.”

“A straight-forward, open-hearted man, like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman, like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns. You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference.” (vol. 1, ch. 2; p. 6)

Though Mr. Knightley later admits to having sent the papers by way of Robert Martin in opening the story to Emma, his intent to interfere (by promoting an invitation, smoothing a little matter?) is slyly passed over. Are we to believe that he has entered into Emma’s philosophy—or that he does not believe Robert Martin and Harriet Smith to be “straight-forward” or “rational”—or merely that the situation, with a man once refused, is materially different than that of Mr. Weston and Miss Taylor?

Horsing Around

James Carson argues that, just as “horses play crucial roles in impeding the marriages of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill and, thus, of Emma and Knightley,”

another parallel to the main marriage plot is facilitated by the equestrian and circus performances at Philip Astley’s. Robert Martin’s joining the party of John and Isabella Knightley, their two oldest boys, and Harriet Smith gives Martin the opportunity to renew his proposal and enables Harriet to accept him. Astley’s Amphitheatre was an entertainment that Austen herself was “glad” to visit in 1796 (Letters 5). Austen and the Knightley party might have witnessed there not only the physical agility of horses but also equine sagacity, since the attractions at Astley’s circus included the “mathematical calculations” and conjuring tricks of a learned horse (Benedict 207). According to Barbara Benedict, Astley’s “Little Military Learned Horse staged the expansion of expert horsemanship to the mental control of animal intelligence” (206). (p. 176)

Bibliography

Austen, Jane. Emma (Norton Critical Edition). 3rd ed. Ed. Stephen M. Parrish. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [1815] 2000.

Carson, James P. “‘One of Folly’s Puppies’: Austen and Animal Studies.” In Global Jane Austen: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community, ed. Laurence Raw & Robert G. Dryden. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), pp. 165–87.

Doody, Margaret Anne. Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles, Persons, Places. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2015).

Le Faye, Deirdre, ed. Jane Austen’s Letters. New York: Oxford University Press (1995).

Kaplan, Laurie. “Emma and ‘the Children in Brunswick Square’.” Persuasions 31 (2009), pp. 236–47.

[jezatalks]

J'y repense. Ma famille est d'accord pour dire que j'ai des goûts particuliers/nuls en musique (ce qui est vrai). Mais par contre L'HYPOCRISIE DE LEUR PAR.

Mes parents ont été dans les premiers à personnaliser leur sonnerie de portable. Ce qui se faisait très rarement à l'époque. Et donc mon père avait le thème des gendarmes à Saint Tropez (encore ça va). Ma mère c'était C'est Parti mon kiki ! En sonnerie comme en réveil. Je vous raconte pas les gènes avec ma sœur quand ça sonnait en conseil parents/élèves au collège.

Le premier clip vidéo que mes parents ont regardé aux débuts de Dailymotion c'était Ma vache à Grossi des VRP. Ça m'a énormément marqué pour que j'en parle.

Ils écoutaient donc beaucoup les VRP et Les Wampas. Aka du rock alternatif avec parfois des paroles bêtes/graveleuses (je pense surtout au titre Les livres de fesse des VRP).

Je vis aussi dans le contexte que mon père est fan de rock garage/alternatif, et ma mère était assistante maternelle donc mettait pas mal de chansons pour enfants.

À 11 ans, (8 ans pour ma sœur) nos parents investissent dans les collections intégrales du Muppet Show. Vous aviez sûrement remarqué que mon humour en est un mix avec les jeux de mots poissons/insectes des animal crossing + la culture meme/internet.

Un des albums qu'on écoutait beaucoup l'été c'était "Got the Go Vol.1" où figurait donc le titre c'est parti mon kiki (cité plus haut), mange des tomates mon amour ou encore Gruesome qui a les 1ères secondes hyper coup de flippe quand on ne s'y attend pas.

Février 2017. Je me rappelle TRÈS BIEN de la date. J'étais en école d'art, j'étais revenue pendant les vacances scolaires et je galerais sur le dessin d'un chaton blanc à la mine de plomb en format raisin. Et, pendant ces deux semaines. Mes parents avaient mis en boucle le titre Je m'éclate au Sénégal des Martin Circus (ceux à l'origine du titre Marylene, repris par Babybel pour une pub). Pour la peine le clip en post direct.

DEUX SEMAINES DE CETTE MUSIQUE EN BOUCLE.

Conclusion : Oui j'ai des goûts vraiment chelous, mais je pense que l'origine vient clairement de mes parents.

[thewrongshop]

WIP ask game: Rules are as follows. post the barebones plot of your wips and let people send you an ask with the title that intrigues them the most and then post a snippet/tell them something about it! then, tag as many people as you have wips!

tagged by @bluejayblueskies! Thank you!!

(okay obviously i've been posting this one for over a year now but) in a lifetime a long time ago - jon and martin arrive somewhere else and martin has amnesia

le cirque des cauchemars - night circus au in which jon has bad dreams of a spooky nature and runs away with the nightmare circus about it

mean terrible couples therapy story - here's how s3 jon and tim (platonic) can still win

on the acquisition of proficiency in a foreign language - in which jon and martin accidentally kiss way more than they talk

tagging @princess-of-purple-prose, @asexualzoro, @judesstfrancis, and @crit20lesbian (if you want to)!!

[lucy-ghoul]

Tbr list that I will hopefully complete before the end of summer:

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

The Orphan's Tales: In The Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt

Maurice by E. M. Forster

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Journey at the End of the Millennium by Abraham Yehoshua

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

and last but not least: Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (the fourth book of the Earthsea Cycle - which I'm loving btw)

(In theory Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, and Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno by Italo Calvino are included in this list but let's be honest here, I will never manage to read those ones too before the end of August lmao)

Now, my favorite books from 2022 (at least so far):

Grendel by Josh Gardner (!!! i wasn't expecting it to be that great but omg. it really was. gorgeous prose + existential philosophy + tragic antivillain/antihero maneater monster as protagonist? i mean.)

Averno by Louise Glück

The Plague by Albert Camus

Hygiène de l'Assassin and Journal d'Hirondelle by Amélie Nothomb (batshit insane stuff. 100% recommended)

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (unhinged fictional women my beloveds <3)

Salomé by Oscar Wilde (unhinged fictional women my beloveds <3 part 2)

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (ditto part 3)

The Hours by Micheal Cunningham

An Oresteia by Aeschylus, Sophokles, and Euripides (translated by Anne Carson) (and yes, that's where the famous "it's rotten work" "not to me. not if it's you" comes from lmao. also family drama and greek tragedies <3)

technically L'amica geniale/My Brilliant Friend saga by Elena Ferrante (my beloved!!) although that was a reread. but this time I appreciated it even more so I'm including it in the list

[c-40]

A-T-4 096 Euro-Rap Pt.2: France

Beside & Bernard Fowler - Odeon Beside debuted on the female version of Fab Five Freddy's Une Sale Histoire/Change The Beat. Beside & Bernard Fowler's first release was as Tribe 2 and a track called What I Like, Beside also raps on Wild Style by Timezone. Beside (Ann Boyle) doesn't get the props she deserves. Credits for the records she's on go to the men, men who are revered for their role in the creation of hip hop on wax. Besides Bernard Fowler who is probably best known for being the voice of NYC Peech Boys (but also so many other acts) this record is blessed by alleged sex trafficker and pedophile, father of the elements of hip hop and leader of the Zulu nation, Africa Bambaataa. Odeon is legit New York hip hop

The above version is a disco dub mix the other mixes are rap records like the video mix below

Dee Nasty - Metro Scratch now this is legit French hip hop, funnily but not surprisingly it samples Beside's side of Une Sale Histoire. Dee Nasty was DMC Champion of France from 1986 to 1988 and European DMC Champion in 1990. The track Infernal Scratch Machine on the same album Paname City Rappin is dope

Alfio Scandurra - Qu'est ce qui ne va pas? (Version Instrumentale) The French seemed to have gone for The Smurf more than anybody else. Recorded in Belgium, Argyris Koulouris of Aphodite's Child was the arranger and plays the rock guitar on it. This is the instrumental but the vocal is a rap track and yes it does sound a little like Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

François Feldman - Wally Boule Noire another Smurf track for the b-boys. François Feldman had been releasing disco and boogie tracks since 1980, in 1984 he turns out a rap record, a few years later when disco and synth-pop become the homogenised pop sound of the eighties he had a hit with Rien que pour toi and became a celebrity in France

Scott Allen - Romantic Flirt the next two tracks are arranged and co-produced by Jean-Pierre Massiera who you might know from the Finders Keepers compilation Midnight Massiera or the two Canadian compilations Psychoses Freakoïd (1963-1978) and Psychoses Discoïd (1976-1981) put out by Mucho Gusto Records. Romantic Flirt is influenced by Herbie Hancock's Rockit, it's different to the other tracks on the list as it's in English rather than French

Midigrow - Kesakokon another from Jean-Pierre Massiera with Scott Allen using a loop of Roxy Music's The Real Thing and this time in French

Casino - Pâté Impérial one off record about egg rolls

Attaché-Case - Les Crabes (Mix Club) this one is more like yesterday's Italo rap tracks, it comes from Sylvain Pauchard of Martin Circus

Gilbert Montagné - Fous De Musique this reminds me of Falco. It's arranged by Italo-disco stars Stefano Pulga and Luciano Ninzatti and produced by another Italian legend Dario Farina

So a bit of a different sound from Italy for the most part (that last track is essentially Italian) the biggest difference is they rap in French rather than English

[uniquetyphoonmiracle]

Voy a enumerar las fotos que he hecho dando una vuelta en bici por MADRID porque me parecen significativas o reveladoras.

1 Parque JUAN PABLO II : placa por su visita de 3 y 4 mayo de 2003 donde dice HASTA SIEMPRE ESPAÑA, TIERRA DE MARIA [no se porque o porque no dice tierra de JESUS]..al lado mapa de las culturas o religiones del MEDITERRANEO

2 después de salir del Parque JUAN PABLO II por la calle PAPA NEGRO [como llaman al JEFE de los JESUITAS] llegue hasta el Arturo SORIA PLAZA [frente al Centro Infantil de las dominicas VIRGEN NIÑA y el RIBS donde me cruze a MARIA=Virgen BARRANCO=Precipicio que debuto en TU NOVIA ESTA LOCA cuya BSO homónima la puso SEMEN UP o grupo de ALBERTO COMESAÑA de AMISTADES PELIGROSAS a los que vi en mayo 2022 en VILLARREAL empezar con GENESIS de CD LA ULTIMA TENTACION tras haber visto a VIRGINIA MAESTRO y ANA CURRA 2 días antes en VILLARREAL..la 2da película de MARIA BARRANCO fue EL ELEGIDO y se hizo popular con MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATAQUE DE NERVIOS de ALMODOVAR divorciandose de imanol URIBE nacido en EL SALVADOR y director de DIAS CONTADOS donde un TERRORISTA que se pasa por fotógrafo enamora a una CASADA que se deja fotografiar fumando DESNUDA en la BAÑERA con su COÑO PELUDO o de Ruth GABRIEL nombre le puso URIBE] ..donde había un coche con una gran pegatina de MALLORCA faltando la M lo que me ha recordado que la MAESTRO O VIRGINIA cuando fue a tocar en octubre 2023 a la sala LA MOVIDA de MALLORCA y contar su viaje a EGYPTO con MUCHOVIAJE.com la hicieron una entrevista de la que sacaron como titular MI SUEÑO ES ESTAR EN PAZ y toco el 4_JULIO_2017 en CC ARTURO SORIA delante del restaurant ARGENTINO the KNIFE cruzandose un tipo con camiseta THE WALL de Pink FLOYD..por cierto..el LAVACOCHES que hay en su PARKING era del hermano de RAMON VALLE_INCLAN cuyo padre fue presidente de TABACALERA y me lo quiso traspasar..

3 después pase por el Barrio DE SAN JUAN BAUSTISTA frente a cuyo POLIDEPORTIVO está IBERMUTUA [que está junto a UNIVERSAL MUSIC] donde fui a REHABILITACION tras darme por detrás en mi BMW [comprado en calle SALVA_TIERRA] a la altura de la TERMINAL IV en CONSTRUCCION [donde está el nuevo puente CONCORDIA al que me subí tras ver el AVION de ROLLING STONES] yendo con JAIME DE ROQUE [=Sinónimo de estar DORMIDO] al que no pasó nada pero yo no pude correr la VIRGIN MONEY MARATON de LONDRES y en su lugar fui a EEUU aprovechando la feria del sector BROADCAST "NAB" en LAS VEGAS donde llegue 2 días más tarde que mi padre que me esperaba de MADRUGADA en su habitación hotel CIRCUS CIRCUS viendo como los YANKEES tiraban la Estatua de SADDAM en BAG_DAD y por la mañana fotografie la pantalla Exterior del HOTEL_CASINO CAESAR PALACE con la BANDERA DE EEUU y lema UNA NACION BAJO DIOS..luego me encontré en la zona de tiendas a CHU_PAMELA ANDERSON Y KID ROCK [Nacido en ROMEO]..a la vuelta de LAS VEGAS_SAN FRANCISCO_LOS ANGELES_LAS VEGAS_MADRID y una vez recuperado hice mi 1er entrenamiento para ver a JUAN PABLO II pasar 3_5_03 desde el Cruce de la Avda PIO XII con calle MADRID DE DIOS [=Parque GLORIA FUERTES] al ir a la Anexa NUNCIATURA APOSTOLICA a descansar antes de reunirse con los jóvenes en Aerodromo de 4 VIENTOS donde le canto NIÑA PASTORI y argentino DIEGO TORRES "COLOR ESPERANZA" del cd UN MUNDO DIFERENTE.

4 después fotografie la curva de incorporación a la M_30 o AVDA de la PAZ donde habia una goma de RIEGO descontrolada y en la que perdió el CONTROL "FERNANDO MARTIN" o 1er español NBA cruzando 8 carriles para estamparse contra el marido de MILAGROS Romero que acababa de dar a LUZ y cuando estaba LESIONADO como VILLA_LOBOS al que iba a buscar para ver el REAL MADRID vs CAJA DE AHORROS INMACULADA de ZARAGOZA [3_12_89]..luego cruce el puente peatonal de la M_30 y salí por el PASAJE DE DOLORES junto a una Academia de MUSICA..

5 después de subir por la calle CLARA DEL REY paralela de CORAZON DE MARIA [que es sentido contrario]..llegue hasta la plaza de REPUBLICA ARGENTINA parando frente a su metro porque está la clínica de Trasplante de PELO de CRISTIANO RONALDO [que le hizo un hijo a una yankee en una noche y se lo compró.. así como soluciono un asunto de violacion en EEUU con DINERO como malogrado Kobe Bryant muerto con su hija en las VIRGENES_CALABASAS] y pegada esta la clínica de Estética de la Ex_miss ESPAÑA "CARLA BARBER" que se compró un palacete cuando se caso y tuvo un hijo pero al poco se divorcio

6 después tras bajar por calle SERRANO y fijarme en el pabellón del ESTUDIANTES [equipo de ACB historicamente aunque ahora en la LEB ORO cuya afición LA DEMENCIA se vestía de Moros]..llegue hasta donde VIRGINIA MAESTRO se hizo la portada [con la PUERTA DE ALCALA DE fondo] para el single WITH YOU que le inspiro estar muy IN LOVE con un tipo con el que se fue a vivir durante la PANDEMIA pero al poco tiempo tuvo que llamar a la MUDANZA como contó en PODCAST de ANGEL MARTIN [presentador de SE LO QUE HICISTEIS] titulado POR SI VUELVEN LAS VOCES [=como su libro por su experiencia en Psikiatriko por tema de DROGAS O DE EXPLOTARLE LA VIDA QUE LLEVABA]..para a continuacion desde el adjunto parque del BUEN RETIRO fotografiar la TORRE ARABE con su RELOJ y subir al punto más ALTO o la cima del RETIRO junto a la TORRE VALENCIA

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HA DEBUTTATO A TORINO IL CIRCO AFRICA (MARTINO-DELL'ACQUA): Foto e programma

HA DEBUTTATO A TORINO IL CIRCO AFRICA (MARTINO-DELL'ACQUA) Ha debuttato ieri, 29 marzo, a Torino presso la tradizionale area del Parco della Pellerina (sarà l’ultimo circo a potervisi installare?) il Circo Africa Paolo Orfei esito della collaborazione tra le famiglie di Ronny e Davis Dell’Acqua (Royal Circus Loris) e la famiglia di Eusanio Martini (Circo Martin Show).

Per l’occasione, per soddisfare i requisiti richiesti dal regolamento comunale vigente è stato montato per la prima volta il grande chapiteau in precedenza di Attilio Bellucci che i fratelli Bellucci inaugurarono proprio a Torino a dicembre 2011, una tensostruttura a 4 antenne bianca con decori rossi, senza contropali, lunga 55 metri (GUARDA LE FOTO DEL PRIMO MONTAGGIO NEL 2011).

Una sorta dunque di seconda inaugurazione, che ha coinciso con l’arrivo per la prima volta nel capoluogo piemontese delle famiglie Dell’Acqua e Martino che pur avendo lavorato in tutta Italia non avevano mai montato un proprio complesso a Torino.

Per l’occasione alla fine dello spettacolo una torta (con la simpatica scritta “La Cattedrale” dedicata al grande chapiteau bianco-rosso, colori che decorano anche il dolce), effetti pirotecnici durante l’uscita del pubblico e l’immancabile rottura della bottiglia di spumante contro l’antenna.

Il circo ha debuttato con 2 spettacoli, alle 17 e alle 21.15, entrambi esauriti con pubblico rimasto fuori, invitato a tornare nei prossimi giorni. Uno spettacolo che fila veloce, con un buon ritmo anche grazie alla presentazione vivace di Danilo Pintore incita il pubblico a partecipare. E il pubblico si lascia volentieri coinvolgere e trascinare, anche in pista, dalla comicità di Patrick Milla, Marco Bizzarro Martini e dei clown Ardisson. Un pubblico non solo di famiglie, ma anche di giovani.

Entusiasmo, come prevedibile, per l’apparizione degli animali (sono presenti vari esemplari di animali esotici, tra cui il maestoso ippopotamo Rocky, star del circo; i cavalli di Ronny Dell’Acqua, l’alta scuola di Genny Martino, i grandi coccodrilli di Walter Martini e la gabbia di Elisabetta Bizzarro che presenta una tigre, una leonessa e una tigre bianca.

E’ sempre un piacere ritrovare i Flying Olimecha, che proprio a Torino arrivarono per la prima volta 17 anni fa e da allora salvo brevissimi impegni, non hanno quasi mai lasciato il nostro paese e li ricordiamo tra i tanti nell’ultimo periodo del Circo Moira Orfei.

Ecco la scaletta dello spettacolo del debutto (da cui manca il numero di tessuti di Desiré Pirlo che sta recuperando dopo l'incidente occorsole a dicembre:

- Il Sogno di Soery (Soery Dell’Acqua, Cerchio aereo) - Ripresa Comica (Patrick Milla) - Cavalli in libertà (Rony Royal) - Entrata Comica dei Pompieri (Ardisson Family) - Giocoleria in bouncing (Elio Martini Bizzarro) - Ripresa Comica della Bicicletta (Marco Martini Bizzarro) - Cinghie Aeree (Asia Curci) - Alta scuola (Genny Martino) - Entrata Comica Orchestra (Patrick Milla) - Coccodrilli (Walter Martini) - Animali esotici (Rony Royal: dromedari, zebra, lama, ippopotamo Rocky) Intervallo - Grandi felini (Elisabetta Bizzarro; tigre, leonessa, tigre bianca) - Verticalismo (Soery Royal) - Ripresa Comica Pop Corn (Patrick Milla e Marco Martini) - Volanti (Olimecha Family) - Coreografia Con Costume a Led (Jason) - Finale Come si evince dalla scaletta, numerosi i giovani artista in pista alcuni laureati all'Italian Circus Talent Festival di Roma.

La permanenza a Torino al Parco della Pellerina è prevista fino al 5 maggio. Sabato e prefestivi 3 spettacoli al giorno. a cura di Fulvio Cardon

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woah! was that CELIA BOWEN walking down main street? i heard they’re not actually from ivy cove but come from THE NIGHT CIRCUS. they’re 26 and live in RADIAN HILLS but watch out because they can be��PERFECTIONISTIC + WITHDRAWN but are actually GIFTED + WHIMSICAL. despite them HAVING memories, you’ll always think of SURROUNDING YOURSELF WITH BLACK AND WHITE, PREFERRING READING OVER SOCIALIZATION, STAGE MAGIC, & A LOVE FOR WINTER when imagining them.  ( margaret qualley, she/her )

[ * THE BASICS ! ]

NAME:  celia bowen.

NICKNAME(S):  n/a.

ALIAS(ES):  the illusionist.

SPECIES:  human.

BIRTHDAY:  sometime in 1868.

BIRTHPLACE:  london.

PAST RESIDENCE(S):  anywhere and everywhere, with the circus.

CURRENTLY RESIDING:  radian hills, ivy cove.

LIVING SITUATION:  a small townhouse.

GENDER IDENTITY: cis woman, she/her.

SEXUALITY:  heterosexual.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single.

SHIPS: marco alisdair only.

ETHNICITY:  caucasian.

FACE CLAIM:  margaret qualley.

OCCUPATION: head librarian at ivy cove public library.

MEMORIES: celia remembers everything — her powers, marco, and being an illusionist for le cirque des rêves. she remembers her father's (quite literal and somewhat gradual) disappearance and lack of faith in her abilities, and she remembers everything that she created with marco for the circus. fake life connections for celia are open!

[ * CONNECTIONS ! ]

FATHER:  hector bowen (prospero the enchanter).

LOVE INTEREST: marco alisdair.

FRIENDS: chandresh lefevre, herr friedrick thissen, isobel martin, tante padva, tsukiko, tara burgess, lainie burgess.

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L’homme du onzième mois

Les Romains les plus antiques, ceux dont les mains, comme les nôtres, comportaient déjà cinq doigts, s’en servaient pour compter les mois de l’année. Ils n’en trouvaient donc que dix, en sorte qu’ils appelaient l’avant-dernier « mensis november », soit « neuvième mois ». Aussi seraient-ils étonnés de nous entendre parler d’un « onzième mois ». Ils regarderaient nos mains, pour voir si on ne dispose pas, par l’effet de l’évolution darwinienne, d’un doigt surnuméraire. Pour eux, le « neuvième mois » était notamment le mois du foulage des raisins. (C’est peut-être là une lointaine annonce du troisième jeudi de novembre, où l’on fête désormais le Beaujolais nouveau.) Au milieu de ce mois, ils intercalaient (du 15 au 18) un triduum de jeux populaires comprenant des courses de quadriges au Circus Maximus, des combats de gladiateurs, des jeux de lutteurs et de pugilistes, des exhibitions d’acrobates. Halloween avant la lettre en quelque sorte. 

De nos jours, l’homme de novembre se plaît à naître sous le signe du Scorpion, parfois même, quand sa mère a dépassé son terme, sous le celui du Sagittaire (après le 23). Les natifs du Scorpion auront volontiers l’humeur sombre, vindicative ou hargneuse. Sensibles au côté obscur des choses, ils aimeront l’entre chien et loup, les coins fleurant l’eau de Javel, les poubelles pendant le grève des éboueurs, sinon les usines désaffectées de banlieue. Ils ressembleront à s’y méprendre au discret Albert Dupont (sans toutefois les lunettes en fausse écaille), à l’empereur Caligula, voire à Landru lors de son procès.

C’est aussi en novembre que l’homme sage se démène dans son jardin. Tantôt il aère le sol à la grelinette, tantôt il le bèche en y enfouissant fumier, compost et autres engrais verts. En l’observant de loin aux jumelles, on le voit aussi qui arrache les endives et les met à forcer. Il s’acharne même à buter les choux, les poireaux, les fèves et les petits pois. Parfois il taille l’argousier et la potentille ; d’autres fois, le houx, l’hydrangée et la spirée du Japon. Bientôt il réparera les clôtures, nettoiera les outils et les remisera sous l’appentis avec le bois de chauffage. 

De son côté, l’éleveur sérieux favorisera les saillies prometteuses de riches descendances, en menant la chèvre au bouc, la truie au verrat, la vache au taureau, parfois même la jument à l’étalon. Car comme l’y oblige l’almanach Vermot, « pour la Saint-Martin, mène la chèvre au bouquin. »

L’homme ne sera pourtant pas seul à se plier au changement de saison. La ménagère elle-même, munie de son panier légendaire, écumera les marchés pour faire emplette de légumes tardifs et de fruits mûrs. Les tomates, haricots verts et concombres ayant déserté les étals, elle jettera son dévolu sur les navets, les panais, les bettes et les choux. Rentrée aux pénates, elle fera bouillir une soupe aux potirons, voire un potage aux rutabagas. Parfois elle mitonnera un gratin dauphinois, d’autres fois une poêlée de patates douces au chorizo ou une tarte au fenouil et parmesan.

Mais foin de toutes ces nourritures terrestres, car novembre est avant tout le mois qui commence par la fête carillonnée de la Toussaint. C’est l’occasion pour l’homme de se laver encore mieux que le l’année dernière. Il met son plus beau trois pièces d’hiver : le bleu sombre en tissu pied de poule, avec cravate et pochette assorties. La femme se vêt d’un mohair en maille jacquard et s’asperge d’eau de Cologne. Au confessionnal elle s’accuse d’avoir médit de sa voisine, qui le méritait bien, car c’est une vraie chipie. Les grandes orgues font vibrer les vitraux, la chorale donne la messe en do majeur, tandis que l’encens se répand en stratocumulus sous les voutes. Après le crédo, le curé monte en chaire pour blâmer mécréants, athées et socialistes. La Toussaint est suivie du Jour des morts, dont certains n’ont sans doute pas encore rejoint le paradis (surtout le maréchal ferrant qui refusait de faire ses Pâques). Des trentains grégoriens, des neuvaines, une visite au cimetière et des chrysanthèmes sur leur tombe les y aideront puissamment.

Après l’église et le cimetière, l’homme de novembre s’assemble devant le monument aux morts pour commémorer l’Armistice. Il se découvre pendant la sonnerie et applaudit le discours du maire. Ensuite il va boire son demi à la Taverne du Chêne. Au retour il croise la jeunesse, qui a mis un masque de zombie, de loup garou ou une défroque de squelette ambulant pour fêter Halloween. Ensuite il rentre chez lui et allume le feu ouvert. Puis il regarde, sur le rebord de la cheminée, la photo crantée d’un arrière-grand-oncle rescapé de Verdun ou de l’Yser. Et il passe à table, car les émotions de novembre sont de celles qui creusent.