<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:18:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@vivids/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #14/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[‘It was you, I believe, that were wishing to see Jupe?’‘It was,’ said Mr Gradgrind. ‘His daughter has gone to fetch him, but I can’t wait; therefore, if you please, I will leave a message for him with]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/kidderminster/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-14-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/kidderminster/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-14-147</guid><category><![CDATA[kidderminster]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:54:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #13/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[CHAPTER 6Sleary’s HorsemanshipTHEname of the public house was the Pegasus’s Arms.1The Pegasus’s legs might have been more to the purpose; but, underneath the winged horse upon the sign-board, the Pegasus’s]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/pegasus/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-13-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/pegasus/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-13-147</guid><category><![CDATA[pegasus]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #12/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[I asked her if she would know how to define a horse tomorrow, and offered to tell her again, and she ran away, and I ran after her, sir, that she might know how to answer when she was asked. You wouldn’t]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/horse/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-12-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/horse/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-12-147</guid><category><![CDATA[horse]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:02:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #11/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[6Then, came the experienced chaplain of the jail,7with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people wouldresort to low haunts, hidden from the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/chaplain/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-11-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/chaplain/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-11-147</guid><category><![CDATA[chaplain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:35:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #10/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[CHAPTER 5The Key-noteCOKETOWN, to which Messrs Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the key-note,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/coketown/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-10-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/coketown/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-10-147</guid><category><![CDATA[coketown]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:41:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #9/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of today, though in itself a trifling one, as]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bounderby/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-9-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bounderby/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-9-147</guid><category><![CDATA[bounderby]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:27:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #8/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. They were right; they had no business to do anything]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/culmination/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-8-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/culmination/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-8-147</guid><category><![CDATA[culmination]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:25:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #7/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[CHAPTER 4Mr BounderbyNOTbeing Mrs Grundy, who wasMr Bounderby?Why, Mr Bounderby was as near being Mr Gradgrind’s bosom friend, as a man perfectly devoid of sentiment can approach that spiritual relationship]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bounderbynotbeing/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-7-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bounderbynotbeing/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-7-147</guid><category><![CDATA[bounderbynotbeing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:16:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #6/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray. A flag, floating from the summit of the temple, proclaimed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/equestrian/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-6-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/equestrian/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-6-147</guid><category><![CDATA[equestrian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:16:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #5/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[CHAPTER 3A LoopholeMRGRADGRINDwalked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction. It was his school, and he intended it to be a model. He intended every child in it to be a model]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gradgrinds/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-5-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gradgrinds/@vivids/literature-charles-dickens-hard-times-5-147</guid><category><![CDATA[gradgrinds]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vivids]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:21:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Hard Times #4/147]]></title><description><![CDATA[You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact. You don’t walk upon flowers in fact; you cannot be allowed to walk upon flowers in carpets. 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