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moving right along ~ did a pile of writing yesterdy. problem with my outlines is that i like to write around the bullet points so much, so once again i'm off on a tangent. i'm willing to see where it goes, but i need to remember to rein things back in if this starts straying too far.
The Company We Keep: this scene: "Unclean".
scene synop: james ropes lewis into recruiting a cook from among a company of whores. he picks a woman who may have formerly been a slave (much as i want this to turn out well, i can already tell it won't).
darling:
random fun fact: (or really not-so-fun at all ~ maybe i should eliminate "fun" from this section) suicide was the most common cause of death for prostitutes in the 19th century. by and large these women suffered very short, very violent lives and in post-war America that was where a lot of women ended up without husbands or fathers or pensions to take care of them.
i was going to post this picture of a pregnant pre-teen prostitute circa 1871, but the image is so disturbing i'll let you decide whether you want to click on it. it's not terribly graphic, but it is very sad. the caption reads: "Mary Simpson a common prostitute age 10 or 11 years. She has been known as Mrs. Berry for at least two years. She is four months with child."
geh.
: o p
The Company We Keep: this scene: "Unclean".
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scene synop: james ropes lewis into recruiting a cook from among a company of whores. he picks a woman who may have formerly been a slave (much as i want this to turn out well, i can already tell it won't).
darling:
Their madame was an androgynous hulk of a woman named La Petit. She sat like a man in a folding canvas chair, smoking a pipe, with her enormous breasts pendulous between her knees under a flimsy chemisette. It was cold out, but La Petit was smoking hash and between that and her own blubber, she was well-insulated against the climate. She looked up at Lewis Fletcher from under the brim of a fairly well-kept man’s silk hat.mean things: lewis isn't a misogynist by a long shot, but he comes off contemptuous of women (frankly, given his upbringing, i'm surprised at how proto-feminist he actually turns out) ~ but it's true he doesn't like being around women of "low character" (it's a shame thing). prostitutes are sad to me overall, so this wasn't a fun scene to write.
random fun fact: (or really not-so-fun at all ~ maybe i should eliminate "fun" from this section) suicide was the most common cause of death for prostitutes in the 19th century. by and large these women suffered very short, very violent lives and in post-war America that was where a lot of women ended up without husbands or fathers or pensions to take care of them.
i was going to post this picture of a pregnant pre-teen prostitute circa 1871, but the image is so disturbing i'll let you decide whether you want to click on it. it's not terribly graphic, but it is very sad. the caption reads: "Mary Simpson a common prostitute age 10 or 11 years. She has been known as Mrs. Berry for at least two years. She is four months with child."
geh.
: o p
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