The Ambassadors Library Edition by Mark Millar, Frank Quitely, Olivier Coipel, and more from @darkhorse.com is up for review today! 🌎🌏🌍
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Catching up on the amazing podcast “Adventures in Art” with @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social and @januszczak.bsky.social and what a treat to discover all the secrets behind #theAmbassadors by #HansHolbein Tune in! Even if it’s just to discover the original origins of ‘Hocus Pocus’ 😅
Brilliant as always!
Delighted to be back in beautiful York for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Hope to see you there! @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social #holbein #theambassadors #henryviii #tudors
Henry James’s The Ambassadors and a red enamel pot of coffee with a white cup
The wonderfully eloquent quotes recently posted by @paperpills10.bsky.social and her group inspired me to start #TheAmbassadors by #HenryJames…
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🎵 Ambassador's Theme
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It’s always a very special moment to see your book on display for the first time! Loving the display in @thenationalgallery.bsky.social #holbein #theambassadors #tudors
In which art historian Bendor Grosvenor waxes poetic about one of my favourite #Holbein paintings. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18690... #TheAmbassadors
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I started reading The Jolly Corner, a short story by Henry James, and though the names are different, these two could easily be Strether and Miss Gostrey. #James24 #TheAmbassadors
He felt what he had felt before with her, that there was always more behind what she showed, and more and more behind that.
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“I’m not,” he explained, leaning back in his chair, but with his eyes on a small ripe round melon - “in real harmony with what surrounds me.”
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Thank you #James24 #HenryJames #TheAmbassadors readers! This has been a busy read! Truly grateful to you all!!!❤️❤️❤️
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Goodness! There was a lot that was quotable!!
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She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. “I can’t indeed resist you.”
“Then there we are!” said Strether.
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He offered now, should she really like to know, to name the great product of Woollett. It would be a great commentary on everything.
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What was it?
He found on the spot the image of his recent history; he was like one of the figures of the old clock at Berne.
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I’ve seen Chad, who has been to London and come back. He tells me I’m ‘exciting,’ and I seem indeed pretty well to have upset every one. I’ve at any rate excited him. He’s distinctly restless.”
“You’ve excited me,” Miss Gostrey smiled. “I’m distinctly restless.”
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To sit there was, as he had told his hostess before, to see life reflected for the time in ideally kept pewter; which was somehow becoming, improving to life, so that one’s eyes were held and comforted. Strether’s were comforted at all events now
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Don’t be afraid for that. It’s pleasant to a fellow’s feelings,” he developed, “to ‘size-up’ the bribe he applies his foot to.”
“Oh then if all you want’s a kickable surface the bribe’s enormous.”
“Good. Then there it goes!”
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Chad let him go on, showing every decent deference, showing perhaps also a candid curiosity for this sharper accent. “I remember you, you know, as you were.”
“An awful ass, wasn’t I?”
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Let me accordingly appeal to you by all you hold sacred.”
Chad showed a surprise. “What makes you think me capable—?”
“You’d not only be, as I say, a brute; you’d be,” his companion went on in the same way, “a criminal of the deepest dye.”
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“For very shame at bothering you really too much? My dear man,” Chad laughed, “what wouldn’t I do for you?”
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He could enshrine himself for the rest of his days in his young host’s chambre d’ami and draw out these days at his young host’s expense: there could scarce be greater logical expression of the countenance he had been moved to give. #James24 #TheAmbassadors
Chad offered him, as always, a welcome in which the cordial and the formal—so far as the formal was the respectful—handsomely met
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“I never quite knew where you were. There were moments,” she explained, “when you struck me as grandly cynical; there were others when you struck me as grandly vague.”
Her friend considered. “I had phases. I had flights.”
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Thus it was that while he virtually hung about for Chad he kept mutely putting it: “You’ve been chucked, old boy; but what has that to do with it?” It would have sickened him to feel vindictive.
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She left questions unasked—she who for so long had been all questions; she gave herself up to him with an understanding of which mere mute gentleness might have seemed the sufficient expression.
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A man and woman in a rowboat on the river
Chad and Madame de Vionnet were then like himself taking a day in the country - though it was as queer as fiction, as farce, . . . the shock - for it appeared to come to that - of their wonderful accident.
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Women were thus endlessly absorbent, and to deal with them was to walk on water.
(…)
There it was again — it took women, it took women; if to deal with them was to walk on water what wonder that the water rose? And it had never surely risen higher than round this woman.
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