PostsCommentsPayoutsvivids (5)in #culmination • 10 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #8/147Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. They were right; they had…vivids (5)in #bounderbynotbeing • 18 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #7/147CHAPTER 4Mr BounderbyNOTbeing Mrs Grundy, who wasMr Bounderby?Why, Mr Bounderby was as near being Mr Gradgrind’s bosom friend, as a man perfectly devoid of sentiment can approach…vivids (5)in #equestrian • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #6/147The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray. A flag, floating from the summit…vivids (5)in #gradgrinds • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #5/147CHAPTER 3A LoopholeMRGRADGRINDwalked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction. It was his school, and he intended it to be a model. He intended every…vivids (5)in #mathematics • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #4/147You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact. You don’t walk upon flowers in fact; you cannot be allowed to walk upon flowers in…vivids (5)in #pugilist • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #3/147‘Now girl number twenty,’ said Mr Gradgrind. ‘You know what a horse is.’She curtseyed again, and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blushed deeper than she had blushed…vivids (5)in #arithmetic • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #2/147CHAPTER 2Murdering the Innocents1THOMASGRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of fact and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and…vivids (5)in #finalbook • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #1/147BOOK THE FIRSTSOWING1. The One Thing Needful2. Murdering the Innocents3. A Loophole4. Mr Bounderby5. The Key-note6. Sleary’s Horsemanship7. Mrs Sparsit8. Never Wonder9. Sissy’s…