The Importance of Being Earnest

29Leave it.

Nothing serious holds, including the name, and they still want the wedding.

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The review

A baby was mislaid in a handbag at a station, and Wilde treats that family story as comedy. Jack and Algernon pretend, in the country or the town, to be a man named Ernest. A house can read it. I laughed, and then the joke settled: none of the serious things, the name included, were serious.

Marriage is still the ending they want. The lies get them there, and I never felt a bill. One clever evening, not a correction. Read it aloud with older children who can enjoy a false name and not go practice one. If you need a lie that costs somebody, this is the wrong week.

Journal

Keep The Importance of Being Earnest in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

2
Industry
Nobody works; the labor is keeping up a man named Ernest.
5
Household
A baby was mislaid in a handbag; they still want marriage.
2
Piety
Nothing in them stops the lie; seriousness is the joke.
2
Courage
The false names risk embarrassment, not a life they would miss.
3
Republic
Town and country are only the two places the pretense runs.
2
Temperance
Each new pretense is the pleasure, and the play keeps them coming.
3
Truth
The name Ernest is a lie, and the play will not make it costly.
4
Stewardship
A mislaid baby and a marriage: that is what the joke leaves.

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Story · France · 1844

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The Three Musketeers

34Leave it.

Their loyalty is a pleasure, and the bodies are still a game to them.

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The review

The loyalty is the fun, and I don't quite trust the fun. A poor Gascon joins three men who live by the sword. A woman in the plot is hunted for a piece of jewelry, with a queen's diamonds in that trouble. A teen can read it. I wouldn't offer it as proof that friendship excuses the rest.

I was amused, then sour. The fighting pleases them. That isn't a reason your kid should be pleased the same way. Read it for the four if you read it. Before the jokes settle, say the bodies are a game to them.

Journal

Keep The Three Musketeers in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 34. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

44 instead of 34

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is still a novel film, and it scores 44 instead of 34. What you gain is stewardship: The building outlasts the men who wreck one another.