The Raven

26Leave it.

Read it aloud once, then remember the bird never counseled anybody.

Take controlThis scores 26. The Raven cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

A student grieves a woman named Lenore. A raven comes in and answers only nevermore. A house can read it aloud, and that is the right size. I did. The room went quiet in the cheap way a repeated word can force. That quiet is not wisdom.

The bird is not a counselor. The man supplies the despair and calls it a dialogue. Say that before a second reading, or the poem starts teaching a child to interview their own worst sentence. Nothing is repaired. Nobody goes to work in the morning. It is a grief that enjoys the echo. Pretty, and I would not live there.

Journal

Keep The Raven in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage 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.

The eight

2
Industry
A student sits with grief; no job is done or even missed.
3
Household
Lenore is the woman he grieves, already gone from the room.
2
Piety
Nothing in him stops the next question; he supplies the despair.
2
Courage
He risks nothing he would miss; the loss has already happened.
1
Republic
No neighbor, law, or town comes into the room with the bird.
2
Temperance
Each answer trains him to ask for a worse one.
7
Truth
He calls a one-word bird a dialogue, and the poem shows the cheat.
2
Stewardship
Nothing is left afterward but the word he taught himself to hear.

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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.

Take controlThis scores 34. The Three Musketeers cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

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.