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At first this tone is completely jarring with the mad-cap comedy that he's narrating, and in the chapter breaks his depression is often mediated by various random visitors stopping by to chat.
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She's not married to an idea of always looking a certain way on screen, and that's better than, say, Angelina, who I don't think would be suited to Faye's more mad-cap qualities, not to mention the fact that she's too old.
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I am glad I read it (for Sam and the Bear of Bad News among many other reasons), but it is Dickens finding and hitting his stride, and although it may be the ‘first Victorian novel’ it is Dickens writing a Regency novel (it is set 14 years after Pride and Prejudice was published)- all mad-cap adventures and small-town politics and bucolic misadventures and aunts in high-waisted gowns running off with disreputable fortune-hunters.
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I am glad I read it (for Sam and the Bear of Bad News among many other reasons), but it is Dickens finding and hitting his stride, and although it may be the ‘first Victorian novel’ it is Dickens writing a Regency novel (it is set 14 years after Pride and Prejudice was published)- all mad-cap adventures and small-town politics and bucolic misadventures and aunts in high-waisted gowns running off with disreputable fortune-hunters.
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I am glad I read it (for Sam and the Bear of Bad News among many other reasons), but it is Dickens finding and hitting his stride, and although it may be the ‘first Victorian novel’ it is Dickens writing a Regency novel (it is set 14 years after Pride and Prejudice was published)- all mad-cap adventures and small-town politics and bucolic misadventures and aunts in high-waisted gowns running off with disreputable fortune-hunters.
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Will Foundation become another mad-cap action flick shot in 3D?
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Also in the exhibition is a display about the Red Lancers, a group of mad-cap MASH doctors who are widely believed to be the inspiration for Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John.
Divided They Stand 2010
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I love Blaylock's work and thoroughly applaud Subterranean for bringing these wonderful mad-cap adventures back after far too long out of print.
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But after the pair completed their mad-cap all-nighter, no hilarity ensued.
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I love Blaylock's work and thoroughly applaud Subterranean for bringing these wonderful mad-cap adventures back after far too long out of print.
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