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16. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 13.
17. Zemon Davis, Society and Culture, 139.
18. These rituals, interestingly, made it to the new world and became shivarees. American shivarees started as a similar critique of problem marriages, and ended up as a good-natured custom carried out for all newlyweds—people made a clatter of music under the wedding-night window and the groom paid them off with drinks. The word skimmington made it to the new world, too, along with its gesture of shaking a ladle to shame a woman who was too mean to her man.
19. It may seem like a lot, but bear in mind that most work was seasonal. (Farms have down times, mill rivers freeze and flood, soldiering has long breaks.)
20. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 91.
CHAPTER 19: TODAY’S NEWS AND VIGILS
1. “The Strange Ordeal of Elizabeth Smart,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2003. I use this distant source because most newspapers quoted only the father’s first line, regarding hell.
2. Donald W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality (London: Basic Books, 1971), 32.
3. Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (London: Standard, 196 3), 172.
4. Martin Amis, “The Queen’s Heart: In Time for Her Golden Jubilee, Two Biographies of Elizabeth II,” New Yorker, May 20, 2002, http://www.newyorker.com/critics/ books/?020520crbo_books1.
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “An Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte” (1817), in Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002).
6. The three men were Jeremiah Brandreth, William Turner, and Isaac Ludlam. The crime they were accused of is referred to as the Pentrich Rising and took place in June 1817, late in the fifty-nine-year reign of George III (d. 1820).
7. Despite George III’s having produced fifteen legitimate children, only his eldest son gave him a legitimate grandchild, Charlotte. When she died, all her aging bachelor uncles rushed to wedlock, the winner, at the age of fifty-nine, producing Victoria, who took the throne after a few old, childless uncles ruled briefly.
8. Stephen C. Behrendt, Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte (London: Macmillan, 1997).
9. Shelley, Poetry and Prose.
10. Avner Ben-Amos, “Les funérailles de Victor Hugo: Apothéose de l’évènement spectacle,” in Les lieux de mémoire, ed. Pierre Nora, vol. 1, La République (Paris: Gallimard, 1984), 473–522.
11. “What Difference Does a Mourning Day Make?” Age, January 15, 2005.
12. “What Difference.”
13. Louise Crossen, “A Nation Gently Weeps,” Age, January 15, 2005.
14. These stories were published as a book: Portraits: 9/11/01: The Collected “Portraits of Grief” from The New York Times (New York: Times Books, 2002).
CHAPTER 20: WEDDINGS, SPORTS, POP CULTURE, AND PARADES
1. I especially like the Hermitage version, sometimes called Dance II.
2. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (New York: Harper Perennial, 1999), 63.
3. Fans carry cigarette lighters in their pockets. I have seen people hold up their lighted cell phones at contemporary shows.
4. You can see thousands of pictures of the parade on the Internet.
CONCLUSION: THE TRIUMPH OF EXPERIENCE
1. Montaigne, Complete Essays, 403.
2. Montaigne, Complete Essays, 437.
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