In fiction, New Year’s Eve almost invariably proves a fiasco. Often it is tainted by doom or despair. In George Eliot’s novel “Silas Marner”, it prompts Squire Cass, a minor aristocrat, to host an opulent dance. His son Godfrey’s estranged wife, Molly, travels there, intending to expose his shabby behaviour, only to collapse en route and die in the snow.
Less morbid, though still bleak, is the subgenre of modern novel in which a New Year’s Eve party exposes the fault lines in a marriage or in society at large. Margaret Drabble’s “The Radiant Way” features a couple for whom such a celebration becomes an unbearable chapter of “hints, glances, sliding words, oblique smiles, incomprehensible references”.
Nick McDonell gives the occasion a sharply contemporary spin in “Twelve”, a portrait of Manhattanites cramped by privilege—one of whom, a drug addict, guns down half his social circle at a New Year’s Eve shindig. It is at a rather less edgy gathering to mark the same holiday that Lila, the bright star of
St Sylvester as its called by others. Yes we've read some weird celebrations of it over the years by explorers and POWs. They made the most of what was available and hoped for a better year ahead.
who gives a fuck about how they are having sex. they shouldn be having sex at all. they dead people shouldnt have sex.
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This has to be written by someone with only a passing acquaintance with alcohol, and hangovers in particular. As well as the concepts of aging, broken dreams, missed opportunities and a desperate facade of optimism in the face of it all. Happy New Year!
Because novelists are smart enough to know that New Year’s Eves suck? Just spitballin’ here …
Doom and despair were the reality of the times for most. Cheap grog was an escape
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If you read Beatrix Potter’s diaries, specifically her entry for New Year’s Eve in 1885, you’ll see she is similarly bleak and morbid. “I wonder why one is so unwilling to let go this old year?…I fear its successors.”
As indeed it now does for a large percentage of 69 million hapless Third Country Britons too - Cripes!
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King Charles 3rd's first Christmas 2022 speech was recorded in St George's Chapel, Windsor. Excellent speech to remember Jesus Christ, Christians memories and British citizens lives. He praised all Religions and Commonwealth. He did not mention Political leaders nor Ukraine war!!
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It’s just another man made up date that has no significance to me at all. Still, I’ll probably drink a glass of bubbly at some point during the day because why not.
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