<?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>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:10:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/bleak/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #11/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[in Bleak House,he also dwelled on what was: because “no part of [Tom-all-Alone‘s] left to the imagination is at all likely to be made so bad as the reality,” he transformed “these hours of darkness” to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-11-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-11-501</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bookcollection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:58:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #10/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jarndyce and Jarndyce is a “ ‘dark-looking case’ ” (p. 522), says Richard, who enters Chancery “from the outermost circle of … evil” (p. 21), plunges into “ ’the mysteries’ ” (p. 650) of the impenetrable]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-10-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-10-501</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bookcollection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:30:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #9/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[There, the condition-of-England question has a clear answer: “Fog everywhere.” If anything is obscure about the country as represented in Bleak House,it is how it came to be in such a dire state. Referring]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-9-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-9-501</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bookcollection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #8/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[But it can be enabling, too, for when we learn that Jo, ”who is of no order and no place“ (p. 602), had been befriended by Nemo, whose name, we are so helpfully reminded, means ”no one“ in Latin, we not]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-8-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-8-501</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bookcollection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:59:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #7/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Bleak House,he appears to have been determined to inculcate this “infirmity” in his readers: “What connexion can there be … ?” is a question directed at us.In a novel that is extraordinary for its vast]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-7-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-7-501</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bookcollection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:12:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #5/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indeed, while John Ruskin argued that the number of deaths in Bleak House(nine, by his miscount; there are more) answered “a craving of the human heart for some kind of excitement” and that such a novel]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-5-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-5-501</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bookcollection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:21:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #2/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[color: blue; } .calibre17 { display: block; line-height: 1.3; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1em; margin: 3pt 0 0; } display: block; line-height: 1.3; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0; margin: 0]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-2-501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@bookcollection/literature-charles-dickens-bleak-house-2-501</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bookcollection]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:01:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  Bleak House #1/501]]></title><description><![CDATA[color: blue; 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My inspiration? Disillusionment with the way society is headed. All I can do is express how I feel through my art, and I hope I'm able to poke some of us in the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@smocaine/the-future-is-bleak-5f4b111433036</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@smocaine/the-future-is-bleak-5f4b111433036</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[smocaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2018 03:21:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSpZWhUgGYc3MngFqoAMwKMWYMyrPJTaRb3C4sG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter beach in Swansea, Wales, UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[A beautiful calmness on a cold brisk beach.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@bobpersuader/winter-beach-in-swansea-wales-uk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@bobpersuader/winter-beach-in-swansea-wales-uk</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bobpersuader]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:48:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2SFtKfHXns3mCya4yCYqXgweXQcP21LATKaW5GTatcRwCtxkMcyhrks267UaKx23SB3ZEfF3VhqZsQqXqu4EfdHQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isnt this just shouting into the dark?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does anyone read what you write? Does anyone give it a second thought?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/alone/@bethlynn/isnt-this-just-shouting-into-the-dark</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/alone/@bethlynn/isnt-this-just-shouting-into-the-dark</guid><category><![CDATA[alone]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bethlynn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:36:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delete the bleak natural way!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Due to pollution and irregularities, the age-old imprint of the face is rapid. Due to dry skin, excessive sunlight, insufficient sleep, age, smoking, hereditary, lack of nutrients, excessive weight loss,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bleak/@mdkamruzzaman/delete-the-bleak-natural-way</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bleak/@mdkamruzzaman/delete-the-bleak-natural-way</guid><category><![CDATA[bleak]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mdkamruzzaman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:36:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pQYiuVvgYiUBP16WHGGN7UNn1BCdGdiagaN1H1kQK23M6FR2SrZNWokpRRJ6jq86oGpsRTWoLo1fKL9ZVJeJ2Qkqo7CGpyEVxmkWRr2NeYwLBx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAD]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michiganders know that there are a lot more than 50 shades of gray :(]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bleak/@docpaul/sad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bleak/@docpaul/sad</guid><category><![CDATA[bleak]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:27:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/54TLbcUcnRm4iYtFdzVNy1kt3F2tvRShXkTnWxjMpidqTFU7gcsuVRebaWhP31harnNWXhahkjh8gzFkmL3pq1f8XHSbp4QgJkFnuL2PZvVFBBiQWcHxsYKekwkwADL4t4XDE9kNA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Other Side"]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@panopticon/the-other-side</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@panopticon/the-other-side</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[panopticon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:30:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5CEvyaWxjaEt3FA7GFqXQVsUuYE8fuwBPpuHBhQEPMqqDr273t7dpBT5ioVdkGQCxqgsEpsXGMURr4ha6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>