Bridgens

“A sea change,” said Peglar, enjoying both the pun and using a phrase Bridgens had introduced him to sixteen years earlier.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

A series of travelogues he wrote are the inspiration for Gary Bridgens and Phill Gregg's 100 mile-long performance journey which they will undertake during May as part of the Lakes Alive programme.

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With a small cart laden with puppets, a change of clothes and a tent, Bridgens and Gregg will set out from the historic Piel Island in Cumbria on Tuesday, travel as far as Ambleside, before heading back to their home location of Barrow.

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Bridgens was indicating the Comb and a thick Leather Notebook.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

“I've always been lucky when it came to health, sir,” said Bridgens.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

He's always left that to scholars and to poor book-obsessed souls like the old steward, Peglar's friend, Bridgens.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Goodsir — as Bridgens knew well, being his assistant — had very few medicines left in the box he'd put together from the supplies of his three dead colleagues as well as his own.

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But Wilkes was too Chilled, too Ill, and too Terrified to Recover, even when Bridgens and I wrapped him in the Last Dry Clothes in our Reserve and put him Between us in our Sleeping Bag.

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The strangely aging Prince of Denmark — Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V — had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

The young Bridgens had been a victim of such consciousness and, like Hamlet, had frequently considered that most essential of questions — to continue or not to continue?

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007