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Hard Times - Chapter V by Charles Dickens
- Charles Dickens Hard Times; Chapter V .... She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, ...
Then had we plenty of victuals.
An ominous development in cybercrime, as a Los Angeles hospital is paralyzed by a ransomware attack.
It never ceases to amaze me how embedded Charles Dickens is in our culture during the holiday season, when Christmas holds the national imagination ransom. Where I live in San Francisco, a production of “A Christmas Carol” is battling with “The Nutcracker” for holiday audiences, and a Great Dickens Christmas Fair had been in full swing since Thanksgiving, offering "A Victorian Christmas Card Come to Life!" (ie, a simulacrum of Victorian London with hundreds of actors and performers peddling vittles and wares from countless storefronts). A local swank gift shop now has an entire section called “Dickens’s Village” made up of miniature snow-bedecked street vignettes for your mantelpiece.
'The Mantelpiece (La Cheminée)' by Eduoard Vuillard is a combination of interior scene and still-life, showing Vuillard's room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. The richly-decorated walls compete with the still-life on the mantelpiece. Yet despite this interplay between the two-and the three-dimensional, the foreshortened mantelpiece, jutting almost out of the picture, marks the artist's move to a more naturalistic approach.
What's interesting about this painting is that on the reverse there is a rapid sketch of a woman with two dogs and two children on a beach. See this work in Room 41: http://bit.ly/2D5yzwW
What's interesting about this painting is that on the reverse there is a rapid sketch of a woman with two dogs and two children on a beach. See this work in Room 41: http://bit.ly/2D5yzwW
victual
dated
VERB
[ WITH OBJECT]
NOUN
(victuals)
VERB ( victuals, victualling, victualled ; US victuals, victualing, victualed)
Origin
Middle English: from Old French vitaille, from late Latin victualia, neuter plural of Latinvictualis, from victus 'food'; related to vivere 'to live'. The pronunciation still represents the early spelling vittel; later spelling has been influenced by the Latin form.
victual
- [vítl]
(▼発音注意)[名]
1 ((〜s))((古))食糧.
2 ((古・方言))(人の)食べ物, 食品. ▼特にすぐ食べられるように調理されたもの.
━━[動](〜ed, 〜・ing;((英))〜led, 〜・ling)(他)〈軍隊などに〉食糧を供給する;〈船に〉食糧を積み込む.
━━(自)食糧を積み込む[入手する].
[中英語←古フランス語vitaile←ラテン語victuālis (victus vīvere(生きる)の過去分詞+-AL). -c-の文字は後ラテン語にならって復活したが発音はもとのまま. △VITAL]vittle
2. All the construction or facing around a fireplace.
3. A mantelshelf.
simulacrum
[名](複 〜s, -cra 〔-kr〕)((形式))
1 像, 似姿.
2 幻影, 面影.
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