Chapter 558: Echo Tide

Love is like an echo. If one person sends it out and the other person does not reflect it back, then the person who made the sound will become hoarse even if he is singing at the beginning, just like the beautiful boy Narcissus in Greek mythology. Echo, the girl who was obsessed with him, was tormented by her love for Narcissus, her body gradually thinned out, her blood slowly evaporated, and finally only a few bones and voice remained. Later, her bones became blocks of rock, and her voice echoed everywhere, answering those who called to her. And her love for Nahisus also turned into hatred. The Goddess of Nemesis decided to punish Nahisus by making him fall in love with her reflection in the water. In the end, he also dried up because of this love that could only be seen. Jumped into the river and drowned.

Charles Dickens's parents are like Jane and Charles Bingley, Elizabeth's sisters in Pride and Prejudice. John Dickens is a small clerk in the British Naval Register. Make ends meet. Mother Elizabeth was born in an aristocratic family, kind and kind, but not good at housekeeping. When Dickens was a teenager, he could only go to school intermittently because of the embarrassment of family life.

A year after inheriting an inheritance and leaving prison, John Dickens was sent by the British News Agency to work as an interviewer in Parliament. The whole family was evicted for non-payment of rent. Charles Dickens was forced to drop out of school, and worked as an apprentice at the law firm of Iris and Blackmer and then at the law firm of Charles Molloy.

In 1829, Charles Dickens learned shorthand and entered the London Civil Lawyers Court as a trial stenographer. At the age of 18, Dickens met Maria Pittner, the daughter of a small banker, in a small family theater troupe.

A boy's first love can affect his whole life. Maria's family background is much worse than Dickens's, and she is not a serious person. She admires Dickens's writing and talent, and gave him the wrong signal. Dickens, who thought that the two were in love with each other, mustered up the courage to confess his love to Maria, but he was met with a cold rejection. Her parents firmly disapproved of their relationship, and this experience left a deep imprint on Dickens's mind, so that he despised real women and liked fantasy ideal women.

A man hates a woman who hates the poor and loves the rich, especially if his first love is such a woman, then he will leave a shadow for the rest of his life.

Sometimes people can't tell the difference between the God of Cupid in the sky and the God of Cupid on the earth. The God of Cupid in the sky only exists in the imagination, and the real woman is not as perfect as imagined. Although the marriage of Dickens and Catherine healed the pain of his first love Pain, but did not bring happiness to Dickens. On the one hand, it stems from the fact that the husband and wife are very different in thought, personality, and aspirations; on the other hand, it is related to Dickens's longing for an ideal woman and his belief that such a lovely and faithful woman cannot be found in reality.

Dickens' marriage to Catherine was troubled from the start, but he and Catherine's sister got on exceptionally well. After he married Catherine, 16-year-old Mary often came to the house as a guest, which gave him enough opportunities to get along with Mary. Some people say that Dickens loved Mary. Although there is no conclusive evidence for this, Mary is indeed the embodiment of an ideal woman in Dickens' mind. Nell in the novel "The Old Curiosity Shop" is based on Mary.

In May 1837, Mary died suddenly, which made Dickens very sad. For several weeks Dickens could not get up to work.

She was always so deep in his thoughts that the memory of her became an essential part of his existence, as inseparable as the beating of his heart from his existence.

Now, Pomona thinks that Severus likes to see her in school uniform because the "forever fifteen-year-old senior" is his memory, and he doesn't really know her, or he over-beautifies her. Like Charles Dickens, every night he dreamed of her with a quiet joy.

Charles Dickens's deformed love for Mary led to the breakdown of his marriage with Catherine, and Pomona couldn't tell what kind of mood it was.

She was happy that Severus was infatuated with her, but she was also unhappy because he didn't like her own fifty-year-old soul who was forced to live in a fifteen-year-old body.

One day a girl will become a woman, marry and have children, and at that time she will not be as pure as she was when she was a girl.

People praise maternal love, but they are unwilling to accept a process that must be experienced in becoming a mother. Both the East and the West avoid this issue, so that the Virgin Mary became pregnant in response.

The Bible requires people to lend money to others without interest, so that the creditor is moral, but the debtor will become greedy.

Raising morality to a standard that ordinary people cannot reach will be the same as Zigong redeeming people, making a good law useless. The perfect God of love in the imagination is also difficult for others, like Fleur who doesn't care about Bill's poverty is still a minority, most women are still like Charlotte, compared with staying at home and becoming a burden for parents, it is better to marry a well-fed Besides, her family is not rich. So Charlotte in the book just said that she was very happy with the house, the furniture, the path, implying that she didn't care who she married, but even someone like her was much better than Lydia, who actually eloped with George Wakeham .

Not all people are equipped for romantic love.

Pomona is not the kind of woman who intentionally plays tricks on men, but she does have the intention of attracting Severus. When she is in front of him, even if the medicine is effective, she deliberately refuses to drink the compound decoction, showing the other side of the mixed-blood Veela. A racial talent.

The love created by the love potion is illusory. When Merope stopped drugging old Tom Riddle, he immediately left her.

A woman's longing for romantic love is irrational. This potion is perhaps more poisonous than any poison in the world. After waking him up, he started to grab her and make out, but she didn't find it sweet.

Severus was poor and ugly, but most women still liked the handsome, rich and interesting princes like Draco and Sirius. A bachelor with money, no woman would notice Severus even if he was brilliant.

Men need women's affirmation and praise, which is also a sense of social identity. At the same time, this is also the best encouragement for men in adversity, and the best decompression medicine for them when they face setbacks and difficulties.

A man's self-esteem is difficult to build up, but it is easy to destroy. A contemptuous look, a humiliation in public, will ruin his life, and what is worse is to compare him with other successful people, Sif Les was publicly humiliated by James Potter, and he put all the blame on Harry.

Confidence needs to be built up with praise, and Quirrell is very good at flattering, he likes it very much, who doesn't like it? But she couldn't really suck up to Severus, it was too disgusting.

And so they wandered the corridors without a word, and when old Slytherin bats stalked the castle with their cloaks in tow, the children would flash a way for him like Moses parting the Red Sea, but now it was At dinner time, everyone was in the auditorium, and Harry had already gone home. He was just a substitute teacher, and he didn’t need to stay in school to watch those little boarding monsters like the dean. It’s hard to imagine that the little boy with glasses is now It's my father.

After the end of World War II, the United States ushered in a baby boom. Children born between 1946 and 1964 experienced the most glorious period of the American economy after World War II. Six years after the end of the war, most of Europe is still struggling Recovery from millions of dead and wounded Many famous cities on the European continent, such as Warsaw and Berlin, are in ruins. Other cities, such as London and Rotterdam, also suffered severe damage. Most of the buildings related to economic production in these areas were reduced to rubble, and millions of people were left homeless. Although foreign aid alleviated the Dutch famine in 1944, the destruction of agriculture by the war caused widespread starvation in many parts of the European continent, and the rare cold winter in northwestern Europe in 1946-1947 made the situation worse. .

The most serious damage was the transportation facilities. During the war, railways, bridges, and roads all became the targets of the opponent's air strikes, and the merchant ships carrying the transportation were often sunk. Small and medium-sized towns and villages in Western Europe were generally less damaged, but the damage to transportation still left the economies of these areas all but cut off from the outside world. The solution of these problems was costly, and by this time the treasuries of most countries at war had been depleted.

The Iron Curtain across the European continent blocked the food import routes from Eastern Europe to Western Europe, exacerbating the food shortage in Western Europe after the war. Food shortages became the most pressing problem. Before the war, the food supply of Western Europe depended largely on surplus grain exported from Eastern Europe, but this trade route has been almost completely blocked by the Iron Curtain by this time. The situation is especially serious in Germany, where the per capita calorie intake is only 1,800 kcal per day, which cannot support the long-term health of the human body at all. A normal person should consume 2,000 calories a day, and even if he is lying still, his basal metabolism is 1,500 calories. Millions of people are slowly starving to death.

Although the situation in the United Kingdom is not so serious, in order to meet domestic domestic coal demand, industrial production had to be stopped. Therefore, humanitarian considerations are also one of the important motivations for proposing the Marshall Plan.

Just like in the Tang Dynasty, after the Battle of Yinshan, the Tang army did not exterminate the Turkic people, but gave food aid to the Turkic people who were injured by the freezing. Regardless of whether the Marshall Plan was related to the later confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, what the United States did at that time Because it is still affirmed.

Pomona looked at the devastated Hogwarts Castle under the gray sky. Although it had been repaired, there were still many details that had not been dealt with. It was too hard for Felix to work alone, but wizards were sparsely populated.

I really hope that after the Second Wizarding War, there will be a baby boom in the wizarding world.