Whitechapel - Purefinder - finding purity in filth Mon, 20 May 2013 01:58:07 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346357#Comment_346357 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346357#Comment_346357 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:34:57 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
I've been around these parts for a while now - you haven't killed me, I haven't killed you - so I'd like to welcome you to my world.

After getting permission from the landlord, I'm pinning my shitty A4, hand-drawn poster to the pub wall and asking you all to join me, every week, for an ongoing discussion.

The thing that will form the core of that discussion will be the research I didn't put into my debut novel. Yes, yes, this is a form of shilling - apologies for those of you that don't like honesty - but it is a particularly Whitechaplian form.

My debut novel, Purefinder, is set in 1858 in London and over the course of the ongoing discussion themes will rear their ugly heads.

Until such a time, I want you to come up with the grossest, darkest, and most delectable ideas of what we'd do with a novel set in 1858 and the snippets that pop up here every Wednesday and Sunday.
[Full disclosure, you can look at my blog to find out what I've hinted at but you won't find the whole truth - only here on Whitechapel will that eventually disgust you enough to look away from your screens. Of course, I can't give the whole book away so here too, there'll remain an element of the unseen.]

First of the lot is this beauty:

the ace of hearts

Have at it. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346373#Comment_346373 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346373#Comment_346373 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:22:45 -0800 taphead
]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346382#Comment_346382 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346382#Comment_346382 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:54:37 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
Sexytimes with Skeleton Guy.

ETA: Can we not let this descend into slashfic? [Unless...well, unless everyone on Whitechapel demands it...including the landlord.]
- Thanks ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346386#Comment_346386 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346386#Comment_346386 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:45:28 -0800 texture
From the wiki:

On the front Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu is as a priest of Montu can be seen; he is presenting offerings to the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty ("Re-Horus of the Two Horizons"), a synchronistic form of the gods Ra and Horus, who is seated on a throne. The symbol of the west, the place of the Dead, is seen behind Re-Harakhty. Above the figures is a depiction of Nut, the sky goddess who stretches from horizon to horizon. Directly beneath her is the Winged Solar Disk, Horus of Behdet.


The artefact goes on to become a central element in the Thelemic teachings of Aleister Crowley. In 1904, Crowley and his scarlet mistress, Rose, visit the Cairo Museum, and recognise the god depicted as Horus, who spoke to Rose through Aiwass. The catalogue number of the item, at the time, was 666.

Horus the Sky God, God of War and Hunting. Ra the Sun God, traveller in the Underworld, creator of the universe. Hatsheput, the empress, who helped build the wealth of Egypt by forging trade routes, sending out expeditionary forces.

I mention this merely in passing. In 1858 in London, Crowley was still unborn. Eliphas Levi, who Crowley claimed to be a reincarnation of, had visited London 5 years previously to perform a powerful magickal ritual. Occultism and spiritualism were gaining in popularity in London. People were listening to Mendelssohn. Darwin was about to unveil his theory of natural selection.

A fascinating time to set a story, Ben. I'll be reading the blog and these discussions with interest. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346394#Comment_346394 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346394#Comment_346394 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:22:09 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
I didn't put much Egyptology or big discoveries in my research as I was trying to focus on my Purefinder's life and what he and his lot would know but I read through a year's worth of newspapers stretching over that period.

There was much that happened in 1858 that seems to have happened 150 years before and again 150 years after - were I more inclined to write fantasy or even sci-fi, I could have focused on it as a nexus point in time. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346396#Comment_346396 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346396#Comment_346396 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:05:28 -0800 texture Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346399#Comment_346399 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346399#Comment_346399 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:23:51 -0800 Oddcult Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346436#Comment_346436 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346436#Comment_346436 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:27:44 -0800 texture Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346438#Comment_346438 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346438#Comment_346438 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:03:47 -0800 Oddcult ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346439#Comment_346439 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346439#Comment_346439 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:19:14 -0800 oldhat

]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346441#Comment_346441 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346441#Comment_346441 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:37:43 -0800 texture Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346445#Comment_346445 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346445#Comment_346445 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:47:37 -0800 oldhat
The other is a 17th century woodcut of an alehouse. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346457#Comment_346457 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346457#Comment_346457 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:52:26 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
I like the fact that a midget is bringing them beer: as I'm tired, I can't remember if I included a midget in Purefinder but now I really hope I did.

You all have until Tuesday to tell me what the skeleton poker boys are up to. All responses welcome: tomorrow night [if I've internet in my new place] I'll let you know what I was going to do with it but didn't. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346461#Comment_346461 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346461#Comment_346461 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:29:24 -0800 oldhat Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346462#Comment_346462 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346462#Comment_346462 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:47:15 -0800 James Cunningham Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346552#Comment_346552 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346552#Comment_346552 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:41:39 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
I'll update when I get to a wifi spot later and I'm not typing on my phone.

Thanks for the contributions all, they've been fun ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346558#Comment_346558 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346558#Comment_346558 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:57:19 -0800 Oddcult





Victorian Values. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346585#Comment_346585 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346585#Comment_346585 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:30:49 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
That top image was one of my future posts. Ah well.

So: the previous image was originally intended to begin as a poker game they saw in a window where the skeleton was veiled but the veil slipped and the men soon began to covet the skeletons cards & bones, to rip off its arms, and to fuck its ribs. Covetous.

Seeing as how Oddcult got the jump on me: take that image, give me gore & plenty. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346761#Comment_346761 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346761#Comment_346761 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:50:26 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
She was to be a walking, shambling vision of just what had happened to my main character's wife after death. My Purefinder would have seen her coming toward him in a moment of terror but I thought it too hammer horror to include in the end draft. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346762#Comment_346762 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346762#Comment_346762 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:51:34 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346801#Comment_346801 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346801#Comment_346801 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:07:08 -0800 texture Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346803#Comment_346803 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346803#Comment_346803 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:00:22 -0800 Steve Toase Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346807#Comment_346807 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346807#Comment_346807 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:37:14 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
Wrong, but brilliant. =P /\__/\

Keep those guesses, messes, story-making-presses a-coming. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346908#Comment_346908 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346908#Comment_346908 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:43:46 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
Good, I'll keep a-flogging the thing.

That was originally:

1) An ape chokes her young embracing him. coecus amor sobolis. The love we have for our children is blind.

2) A tortoise. Domus optima. The best house is one’s own.

3) A squirrel crossing a river on a plank, with its tail up high. Vincit solertia vires. Cleverness surpasses strength, etc….


From Recueil d’emblêmes, devises, medailles… (Collection of emblems, devices, medals…), by Nicolas Verien, Paris, 1724.

And I'd intended it to be one of a collection of rare finds that my main character had even though you wouldn't expect someone of his class to have. Unfortunately, I realized that...yeah, he wouldn't have. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346910#Comment_346910 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346910#Comment_346910 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:14:11 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai


What up with that face? ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346915#Comment_346915 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346915#Comment_346915 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:21:52 -0800 taphead is the hat. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346932#Comment_346932 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346932#Comment_346932 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:20:03 -0800 Fishelle
Anyway, that's clearly not damage to the photograph, but rather some sort of electric energy expelling from her face. Maybe there's an antenna under the hat. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346937#Comment_346937 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346937#Comment_346937 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:35:11 -0800 Steve Toase Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346945#Comment_346945 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346945#Comment_346945 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:20:54 -0800 texture Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346947#Comment_346947 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346947#Comment_346947 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:25:06 -0800 Steve Toase Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346953#Comment_346953 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346953#Comment_346953 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:19:57 -0800 texture Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346960#Comment_346960 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346960#Comment_346960 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:40:11 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347114#Comment_347114 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347114#Comment_347114 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:56:28 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
Initially I had plans for my protagonist's wife to feature more in the book and, in those sections, for her to have a penchant for wearing traditional Welsh garb. The hat here has to be a pisstake [even though traditional garb is pretty close] so I'd intended for one of the scenes that bonded them together was a playful hat swapping and clothes trying in a clothes/tailoring shop that they knew they couldn't afford. They would have pretended to be well off on entering, only to try several things on and pose for each other then tell the clerk that it wasn't quite right and exuent.

Unfortunately, this bit proved superfluous to the action of the book and distracted too much from the emotional currents. Ah well - we cut our lovies. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347116#Comment_347116 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347116#Comment_347116 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:08:56 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
This girl, that look, your jaw.

Let it drop onto the keyboard and give me your fantasies. [Flash-slashfic welcome for this one and the monkey one.] ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347140#Comment_347140 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347140#Comment_347140 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:45:34 -0800 texture Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347141#Comment_347141 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347141#Comment_347141 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:00:57 -0800 Steve Toase Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347145#Comment_347145 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347145#Comment_347145 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:32:47 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai but not as much as she loves opium. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347287#Comment_347287 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347287#Comment_347287 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:27:20 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
OK, well, our Fashionable Beauty might well have been Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, an opera singer and I'd originally intended a large opera-flecked parallel strain of narrative that saw a fashionable beauty rise through the singer ranks to starlet status. This was to emphasize how certain class ideals put a decadent culture ahead of others for the sake of tradition but...it would have been too much for such a beautifully simple book. It would have made the whole narrative too Joycean and too distracting. Ho hum, we cut our loves. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347288#Comment_347288 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347288#Comment_347288 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:32:50 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
Ballyhoo? ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347413#Comment_347413 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347413#Comment_347413 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:56:14 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai Sketches in London, by James Grant, London, published in 1850.

An excellent scene, I think: depicting a sometimes typical invasion of the stage but it's the details that count - look at where the audience's hands are.

As I've said before, I'd considered a parallel storyline in an opera but I'd also considered having my two troupe to the theatre - unfortunately, I thought it'd make it too melodramatic. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347414#Comment_347414 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347414#Comment_347414 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:00:54 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai my blog, here's some good stuff for ya:


“For Children Three Years Old,” from Lessons for Children by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Philadelphia, 1818: There was a naughty boy; I do not know what his name was, but it was not Charles, nor George, nor Arthur, for those are all very pretty names: but there was a robin came in at his window one very cold morning — shiver — shiver; and its poor little heart was almost frozen to death. And he would not give it the least crumb of bread in the world, but pulled it about by the tail and hurt it sadly, and it died. Now a little while after, the naughty boy’s papa and mamma went away and left him, and then he could get no victuals at all, for you know he could not take care of himself. So he went about to every body — Pray give me something to eat, I am very hungry. And every body said, No, we shall give you none, for we do not love cruel, naughty boys. So he went about from one place to another, till at last he got into a thick wood of trees; for he did not know how to find his way any where; and then it grew dark night. So he sat down and cried sadly; and he could not get out of the wood; and I believe the bears came and ate him up in the wood, for I never heard any thing about him afterwards. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347715#Comment_347715 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347715#Comment_347715 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:50:05 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
Ok - well, that there AmeriCAN story was a possible a tale my antagonist would tell but, it not fitting with character, didn't. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347716#Comment_347716 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347716#Comment_347716 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:51:41 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
A torrent

Foreground the chaos.
Let the shadow of peace glimmer in the end, at the back – in the hidden.

Forwhy? ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347797#Comment_347797 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347797#Comment_347797 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:25:50 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
That torrent was to be one moment of many in a look at the nature of photography and its counterpart, illustration. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347799#Comment_347799 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347799#Comment_347799 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:30:48 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai


Seen one o these before? ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347944#Comment_347944 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347944#Comment_347944 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:51:03 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
This is a lover's note, foo.

there's stuff behind it but I'll save y except to say, go here for more. [Via Letters of Note.] ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347945#Comment_347945 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347945#Comment_347945 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:52:10 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai here and let me know what you think here on Whitechapel.

[No, that syntax is not confusing.]

{ETA: I may have been drunk and lazy last night - apologies for the lack of proper content. Next time, Gadget. Next time.} ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348164#Comment_348164 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348164#Comment_348164 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:41:32 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348165#Comment_348165 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348165#Comment_348165 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:56:46 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai YOU TELL ME ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348188#Comment_348188 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348188#Comment_348188 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:12:40 -0800 Fishelle It reminds me of a list I saw on one of those websites that do nothing but list things, with the most surreal photographs taken by google trucks for the street view on google maps. One of them had a lion outside a convenience store. I glanced at a couple of comments to find that people in the neighborhood could explain that one. The store just has a stuffed lion and likes to put it up from time to time to freak people out a bit.
So I'm thinking that's just a stuffed toy the girl likes to have with her all the time, like my 4 year old niece and her stuffed horse named Pink. It's just a bit bigger than the usual toy. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348220#Comment_348220 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348220#Comment_348220 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:23:06 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348221#Comment_348221 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348221#Comment_348221 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:33:55 -0800 taphead artist. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348223#Comment_348223 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348223#Comment_348223 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:46:52 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
"Good morning, sir. I'd like a pound of your finest lady stuffing."
"I'll give your lady a stuffing." ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348584#Comment_348584 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348584#Comment_348584 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:47:16 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348585#Comment_348585 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348585#Comment_348585 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:58:32 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai drinkinAndSinkin ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348917#Comment_348917 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348917#Comment_348917 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:14:24 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348919#Comment_348919 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348919#Comment_348919 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:24:58 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
hup-hup

Yeah, the 19th Century French did too. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349069#Comment_349069 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349069#Comment_349069 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:13:43 -0800 Scrymgeour Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349133#Comment_349133 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349133#Comment_349133 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:28:25 -0800 Ben Gwalchmai
This piece is from Un autre monde (another world), written and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Grandville in 1844 [and I found them at archive.org] whereas the figure of the Golliwog only really came around in the late 19th century - it's possible Moore cribbed these both and threw them together.

It's been roughly 3 years since I read The Black Dossier. Thanks for highlighting the connection, good Scrymgeour. ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349469#Comment_349469 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349469#Comment_349469 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:13:18 -0800 Scrymgeour My main knowledge of the Golly comes from the massive one that used to adorn a factory in my home town ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349803#Comment_349803 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349803#Comment_349803 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:29:42 -0700 Ben Gwalchmai
Those dolls were to be part of a beauuuuutiful stage show that my protagonist was forced to go to that then followed him out onto the streets but it all got a bit ridiculous and an entourage woulda spoiled the Dantean two wanderers feel. So there. Nuh.

;) ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349804#Comment_349804 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349804#Comment_349804 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:31:14 -0700 Ben Gwalchmai
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NoColinNo ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=350634#Comment_350634 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=350634#Comment_350634 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:06:25 -0700 Ben Gwalchmai
Startups are time-heavy. Excuse the breaks, they may will happen.

Those three were to be some of the books my main boy had read - I was hoping he'd be a little smarter than your average working-class immigrant but then I realized that no, there's no need to make him likable to intellectuals. It's their job to engage with the character. ]]>