"Coronation Committees”
What Did It Mean?
by Angela Thirkell (1954)
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“The whole of England was now in an orgy of Coronation Committees” and inevitably we are swept up. Lydia Merton and Mrs. Villars lead some old friends from the war years; Miss Pemberton and her cowed boarder, Mr. Downing; the Misses Hopgood and Crowder of the enigmatic Glycerine Cottage; Miss Hopgood’s Aunt; and Poppy Turner, to the glorious climax in the production of The Northbridge Coronation Pageant. Along the way, young Ludovic of Pomfret Towers emerges from his shell to shine in Aubrey and Jessica Clover’s short play staged as part of the festivities. Having arrived at a hiatus in the generations of Barsetshire where she has married off all suitably aged persons and is not quite ready to pair off the 3rd generation of fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds, Thirkell reaches back to the truncated romance between Mr. Downing and Mrs. Turner and (sanctioned by a seriously ill Miss Pemberton) again produces the mandatory nuptials.
and inevitably we are swept up.
Lydia Merton and Mrs. Villars lead some old friends from the war years; Miss Pemberton and her cowed boarder, Mr. Downing; the Misses Hopgood and Crowder of the enigmatic Glycerine Cottage; Miss Hopgood’s Aunt; and Poppy Turner, to the glorious climax in the production of The Northbridge Coronation Pageant.
Along the way, young Ludovic of Pomfret Towers emerges from his shell to shine in Aubrey and Jessica Clover’s short play staged as part of the festivities.
Having arrived at a hiatus in the generations of Barsetshire where she has married off all suitably aged persons and is not quite ready to pair off the 3rd generation of fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds, Thirkell reaches back to the truncated romance between Mr. Downing and Mrs. Turner and (sanctioned by a seriously ill Miss Pemberton) again produces the mandatory nuptials.
Dreamstory, Chapter Three: Unitarian Church
UNITARIAN CHURCH
Barnstable Patriot, May 23, 1968
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Speaker for the 11 a.m. service of the Unitarian Church May 26 will be Louis Jacobucci, executive director of MSPCC, who has been chairman of the social concerns committee of the church and is chairman of the prudential committee. Among other activities are membership in Hyannis Rotary; he is also vice president of Cape Cod Community Council and chairman of Community Action Committee of Cape Cod.
"So, look. Miss Andrews."
"Yes."
"You understand this is a very serious charge to bring against anyone."
"Yes."
"Let alone your own brother."
"Yes."
"It never happened."
"Well, actually, it kind of totally did."
"You are deluded."
"Well, that may be, but I would submit that my mental health history is a result of having stuff like that done to me in the first place."
"You lie."
"I don't, actually. In fact, this is the first...
Dreamstory, Chapter One: What Happens At The End
By Velveteen Andrews
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community ...
