@samuelpepys

A fine little movie scene this. All of them nicely kitted out in scarlet, to welcome the King. Trying to remain dignified in the heavy winds and spray of water on the unsteady deck. "But he did not come."

#Pepys #ServingTheKing #Anticlimax

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Pepys's entries are such wonderful models of diaristic style: laconic directness tempered by euphemism.

#Pepys #diary #style #laconism

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What a wonderful passage by our friend Mr #Pepys. He fears he was too unrestrained with the priest, and his admission of that fear is covered by layer upon layer of #hesitation and grammatical #SelfRestraint.

- it comes to my mind ...
- to observe ...
- that I sense ...
- to have been a little ...

... too free. Finally it has come out: "I have been too free."

In the construction "I observe ... that I sense", #introspection becomes sentence structure, #diary becomes #style.

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"... where infinity of business to do ..."

This is the sweetest and most poetic diaristic bending of English grammar I can think of.

#Pepys #diaries #LanguageIsInvention

@samuelpepys

In #laconism, #Pepys is an equal to any Roman writer.

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Wow. That entry is touching, funny, enigmatic, practical, all at the same time. #Pepys really knows how to write a #diary.

wow, 1961. Benny Hill singing about Pepys Diary. There's other versions and performances in the years since then as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVWuRYd3-rg

#pepys #BennyHill

Sudden desire to revisit the 17thC.

#biography #English #diarist #Restoration #Pepys

#pepys

As our first post here is the first thing we ever sold in our unit. The entire lot was a pack of #1950s #Pepys #PlayingCards, namely #Contraband. It is an odd game, teaching people how to smuggle things through customs. There are many fun cards in this set, including the #CrownJewels, but I always had a soft spot for these #SilkStockings which had been banned during the Second World War, and were still almost impossible to get in the 1950s

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@samuelpepys

So glad to have discovered your account. A wonderful project.

As a student in my little college room I always had one of the fat green/blue volumes of the Latham/Matthews edition by my bedsite. Needless to say, my fellow students made liberal use of the word "pretentious" (about me, not Pepys).

Absolutely adore those laconic entries.

Such a lovely project, thank you!

#Pepys #SamuelPepys #diary #style

Thinking of trying #dungeon23 but I've got to sort through some mental stuff. Like, I have a hard time believing that I'll finish, but I know that even trying will give me something more to show than I normally have.

Also thinking of finally trying to #read a #Pepys entry a day.

If I get stuck with the dungeon, maybe I'll use the diary entry for the day as inspiration. 🤔

Hello #histodon #history experts, is there such thing as history of beverages?! I love listening to #Pepys ' diaries when I work, and been long wondering about the quantities of alcohol they drank. I know drinks like beer had less alcohol content back then but still makes me wonder how you can start the morning with draft and keep drinking wine all the way through. Every day. Water was not safe to drink so they must have been permanently dehydrated with their shocking diet. The well-off anyway.

@dejoslin

Are you sure you're not me? The newish Kate Loveman edition of Pepys' Diary has been my bedside read-a-bit book for months!

I don't recall his dorveilles, though: maybe haven't got to them yet, this time. Thanks! Looking forward to it.

What did his friends make of those nighttime knock-ups?

Staring at the ceiling can be OK, as long as one avoids spiralling into self-loathing. Or, relatedly, thinking about money. Or death. Fine time for a good midnight mull.

#Sleeps #Pepys

I haven't managed much writing over the last few years, but as I shared this over on the bird app I thought I'd share it here.

Have a short piece in 📢 'Other Lives in Samuel Pepys’s Diary'!
A collection of writing inspired by Pepys’s journal. Free to download:

https://leicester.figshare.com/articles/report/Other_Lives_in_Samuel_Pepys_s_Diary_A_Collection_of_Creative_Writing_inspired_by_Pepys_s_journal_of_the_1660s/20449623/1

#Pepys #HistoricalFiction #FreeFiction #ShortStories

@dirtysexyhistory @histodons
#Pepys Shows: "The first of these establishments had been set up by a Turkey merchant [who] acquired among Mahometans a taste for their favourite beverage.The convenience of being able to make appts in any part of the town&of being able to pass evenings socially at a very small charge was so great that the fashion spread fast.Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his #coffee house to learn the news and to discuss it" --a bit like @mastodon.ie 😂

Samuel Pepys, somewhat taking his future fortunes into his own hands writes on this day in 1663 to his sponsor, Lord Sandwich cautioning him as to his affair with one Bette Beck.

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/11/18/

#pepys #otd