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  1. It's November 5th so I watched V For Vendetta again, I do most years.

    Cried at the story of Valerie again, it gets me every time.

    Such a great book, such a great movie adaptation.

    #VForVendetta #November5th #BonfireNight

  2. Since it is November 5th, Bonfire Night here in the UK, I was talking to a chum about the comics & film of V For Vendetta.

    My French chum introduced me to the French dubbed version of the film, in which, remarkably, the translator managed to keep the famous introduction speech where he uses only words beginning with "V", even in French youtube.com/watch?v=s1S-iNcXGTk

    C'est formidable!

    #VForVendetta #Film #Comics #BandeDessinee #French #Francais #GuyFawkesNight #BonfireNight #November5th

  3. Fog shroud
    and clouds
    (when the clock
    chimed late
    in the heavy
    November night-
    time) lifting
    the mystery
    for a greater…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Guy Fawkes Moon”
    published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight #November5th