2021年2月22日 星期一

"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death",tumbrel, guillotine, Vaporettoi, permitted to know in all libert

"It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty."


“Something inside me says we will soon be happy and safe,” she wrote as late as 1792. Just one year later the reality, captured by Jacques-Louis David, was very different. The artist sketched the queen as she passed by in a tumbrel, ready for the guillotine



"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!"
--from "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) by Charles Dickens



Beware the guillotine as anti-monarchists prepare for the royal wedding

As Britain makes last-minute preparations for Friday's royal wedding,
anti-monarchists from across Europe plan to use the occasion to call for
the abolition of Europe's royal families.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ewa0w5I44va89pI2


Sparing Shoes. The book is rich in such raw slices of life; like any day's newspaper, it is an anthology of comedy and horror. In the style of a film documentary, it flicks through some terrible hours of history. One moment it is a priest disguised in a red waistcoat waiting fearfully in the streets to give a last blessing to a tumbrel full of ladies on their way to the knife. Another provides a vignette of an aged émigré aristocrat in the counter-revolutionary army marching barefoot with his shoes slung on his bayonet to save the wear and tear. A last note in the book—a letter from an obscure Parisian called Bonaparte to his brother back in Corsica—gives promise of more to come. Napoleon was crazy about the Paris women; all he wanted to complete his happiness was a "chance to take part in a battle."




As if this weren’t enough, Oprah Winfrey, that literary kingmaker, recently selected “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Great Expectations” as her two book-club picks, billing her choice as a fireside "Date with Dickens". She confessed that she had never read Dickens before, and seemed to offer no reason for choosing his work aside from the fact that it was the holidays. I can certainly think of no better image to relish during the holiday season than that of hordes of ragged, bloody Frenchmen being led in tumbrels to the guillotine (ie, the worst of times). But seriously, who else gets this kind of treatment? I’m surprised that Starbucks hasn’t already offered a Dickens Lemon Latte Punch (perhaps with a Perfect Proust Madeleine with proof of purchase). With this year marking the 140th anniversary of his death, and with the bicentennial of his birth less than two years away, it looks as if Charles Dickens, Inc. is up for yet another banner year.


guillotine
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guillotine
ˈɡɪlətiːn,ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/
noun
  1. 1.
    a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
verb
  1. 1.
    execute (someone) by guillotine.



tumbrel
To the guillotine, all aristocrats!
To the guillotine, all aristocrats!
A. A. Dixon
7.2 inches high x 4.9 inches wide
[Book 3, Ch.15, "The Footsteps Die Out For Ever," Penguin edition p. 401. Oxford World's Classics edition p. 461. Carton and the little seamstress rumble off to their deaths in a tumbrel escorted by Jacobins.]

MURANO, Italy — The quasi-monastic quiet of this lagoon island a short vaporetto ride from Venice has been broken intermittently in recent months by ear-splitting saws and the low grumble of heavy machinery.


Vaporetto is a waterbus operation. It has a set of 19 scheduled lines that serves locales within Venice, Italy, and travel between Venice and nearby islands, e.g., Murano and Lido. (The name, vaporetto, also serves as the appellation for a single such craft, vaporetti being the plural version of the name.) The waterbus line is operated by Azienda Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (ACTV), the Venetian public transportation system.
Vaporetto
It has twenty-four-hour scheduled service, with frequency varying by the line. Line 1 serves the Grand Canal. Several lines are limited to the summer season, April to October.[1]
ACTV sells 12, 24, 36, 48 and 72 hour passes as well as single-journey tickets and 7-day passes.[1]

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tumbrel
or tum·bril (tŭm'brəl) pronunciation
n.
  1. A two-wheeled cart, especially a farmer's cart that can be tilted to dump a load.
  2. A crude cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their place of execution, as during the French Revolution.
[Middle English tumberell, from Old French tomberel, from tomber, to let fall, perhaps of Germanic origin.]


lib·​er·​ty | \ ˈli-bər-tē  \
plural liberties

Definition of liberty

 (Entry 1 of 2)

1the quality or state of being free:
athe power to do as one pleases
bfreedom from physical restraint
cfreedom from arbitrary or despotic (see DESPOT sense 1) control
dthe positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges
ethe power of choice
2aa right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant PRIVILEGE
bpermission especially to go freely within specified limitswas given the liberty of the house
3an action going beyond normal limits: such as
aa breach of etiquette or propriety FAMILIARITYtook undue liberties with a stranger
bRISKCHANCEtook foolish liberties with his health
ca violation of rules or a deviation from standard practicetook liberties in the way he played the game
da distortion of factThe movie takes many liberties with the actual events.
4a short authorized absence from naval duty usually for less than 48 hours
at liberty
1FREE
2at leisure UNOCCUPIED

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