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The Havisham Hour

by Julio Panisello

GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens: 513 pages, 513 days, 513 sketches, each published daily along with a brief journal entry exactly at 8:40 AM, The Havisham Hour. The project started January 7th, 2013 and the goal is to culminate it, with your support, June 3rd, 2014. www.HavishamHour.com

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  1. Page 513, read by JULIO PANISELLO

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 513 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --The end of the end is the end.-- www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. This is the last page.

  2. Page 512, read by SMARANDA LUNA

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 512 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Parting has no remedy. You remain silent until you speak, and then the space in your lungs is left empty. We win a victory over nothingness. Nobody cares. If we die in proportion of the words we…

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  3. Page 511, read by VANESSA PLACE

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 511 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Everything is nothing. No one sees majesty and charm in you and me once the freshness of our bodily youth wilts. People only see indescribable sadness. We become invisible and useless. All this...

  4. Page 510, read by FARRAH KARAPETIAN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 510 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Too much self-contemplation will make you not forget anything in your life. Never mind fretting about the mirrors. You have to be truly perverse to understand goodness, and looking endlessly into…

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  5. Page 509, read by NORA MENKEN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 508 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We're not advanced, we're just better at decorating using myths and symbols. Doubts are not more explicable now, facts aren't less disconcerting. We've always known everything, our ancestors have...

  6. Page 508, read by NICHOLAS FENNESSY

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 508 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Am I an inept artist? No, just dishonest and predictable. There is no secret formula to be an artist, you just have to do a good job at it and share it in the end, that's all. There are no…

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  7. Page 507, read by CHRIS PARIS

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 507 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We live frugally and then we say goodbye, that's the goal. In reality we always aspire to quit everything, and we repetitively ask for forgiveness. Life says goodbye to us instead. And then we turn…

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  8. Page 506, read by MAT GLEASON

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 506 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Waiting with a quivering lip for answers, I melted after a string of non-words. Life is impossible at low temperature, that's why I reached the conclusion that Silence cannot accept normal...

  9. Page 505, read by SEAN RILEY

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 505 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --How smart are you and I? Under duress, we become too obsessed with survival issues, neglecting creativity and love. If we stop analyzing, pondering, figuring out, measuring and weighting every issue...

  10. Page 504, read by AARON KUNIN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 504 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --"It" is that place where things are divided between Blue and Green. When you return to "it", your heart softens. You can eat pizza there all day long. By the way, any pizza is a personal pizza if…

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  11. Page 503, read by BAILEY PARKS

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 503 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Can you have a long-distance relationship with someone you've never met? Because that's exactly what you're having and you do not know it. The finger of Providence is actually quite ignorant. It's...

  12. Page 502, read by MELISSA RECALDE

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 502 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Let me break down this low murmur for you, so you can explain if you're either a "helper" or a "doer". You see, you think your mental glitch is your bread-and-butter, but you cannot be any more...

  13. Page 501, read by TED MIRACCO

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 501 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --There are two kinds of people in this life: people to pee in the shower and people who eat in public while lying to others. Don't 'please' or 'thank you' them. Both have their souls in skin and…

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  14. page 499, read by VALERIE NOELL

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 499 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --My muse went away to a distant place. I will be a little worthier of you now and a little less worried about my own unity. I will finally unlearn all my hobbies. I know the answer already: stop…

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  15. Page 498, read by JEREMY MIKUSH

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 498 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --It's always been hard to be bohemian. Is it harder now? Does art matter anymore? Does reading matter anymore? We want to be digitally liked. We stray away from reality and don't feel sorry about it....

  16. Page 497, read by BRETT AMORY

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 497 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Quit pretending you're weaker than you are. What are you ashamed of exactly? When you fill better after being ill you will be thankful. It happens all the time. You will then forget what you went...

  17. Page 496, read by TEMPLE WILLIAMS

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 496 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --My great expectations have completely dissolved. The cause of it was me, the fault of it was mine. There are many things that I may regret in this world where no one regrets anything. But I think…

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  18. Page 495, read by CHRISTOPHER NOXON

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch - of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Is he the right man? I'm ashamed to answer him. If he would solve every single problem he would not be any less worried. However, nothing can be really solved anymore. So he's not really suffering…

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  19. Page 494, read by LAUREN HARRINGTON

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 494 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Me: What do eyes make you think of? You: Time, Anemia, ghosts. Me: You are not special, the world doesn't owe you anything. You: My eyes are still adjusting.-- www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio...

  20. Page 493, read by OLIVIA APPLEGATE

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 493 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Beauty is everywhere where we cannot be. We're always peering through a hole, wanting that rich summer growth on the other side. We know that side better than ours. Everything is colorless and...

  21. page 492, read by NAOMI YAMADA

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 492 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Attention please! Distraction has broken into your dwelling and and has taken everything: your pretty emotions, your inherited opinions, your creativity savings, the sheets, your scattered...

  22. Page 491, read by SUSAN LANGFORD

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 491 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --A few years ago we could die without exceeding the minimum of vulgarity that seems indecorously unavoidable right before passing. But today that tiny level of vulgarity before passing is not kept to…

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  23. Page 490, read by LuLu LoLo

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 490 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --How long until you become something different than what you are not? Let me interrupt your search for that someone among strangers who has gone deeper than you. Don't go to them, don't kiss their...

  24. Page 489, read by JACQUELINE SUSKIN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch - of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I sometimes struggle with the words "I am". What's the real point of their existence? When you turn the worst point of your self-pity, you start realizing of your true and ultimate duty in life:...

  25. Page 488, read by MATTHEW COUPER

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 488 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I don't know what you want from me. I don't recognize you. Who are you anyway? Can you cry without shame? Can you conquer the fear of ridicule? I didn't think so either. Time seems interminable. How...

  26. Page 487, read by JEN O'DONNELL

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 487 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Reality is really illogical, morality cannot be saved. I don't want to leave it to others to determine what is wrong from what is right, I want others to determine what is harmful from what is not.…

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  27. Page 486, read by JESSICA NICOLE WEBB

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 486 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --There is no reason to worry about time running out. Nothing can be solved in this world anyway, so look affectionately to me, I will take you back and tell you a secret before you return to the...

  28. Page 485, read by WILL BRITTAIN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 485 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I have never deserted you. The fact is that Death, the experience of nothingness, ultimately shows up under a ridiculous spotlight and takes you away. What does it really mean? I doubt my last words...

  29. Page 484, read by MICHELLE FLANAGAN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 484 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --The world doesn't care what you think or what you do. It's not that people are mean, everyone is busy. Instead of pushing out petitions for attention out in the cold, dusty night, why don't you…

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  30. Page 483, read by MICHAEL BARBA

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 483 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Our melancholic solitude is profound, it is not sweet or sultry. It is aesthetic. It fills us with contemplative passivity, and that feels good. Light links all our propensities and passions…

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  31. Page 482, read by ALEX SCHAEFER

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 482 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Thinking is not action on its own. Thinking about thinking doesn't lead anywhere. Thinking about feeling is not going to be able to bend the past out of its eternal shape. Stop justifying yourself…

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  32. Page 481, read by DAVID P. EARLE

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 481 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We're infatuated with Beginnings and Eternity and forget that everything ends. The End is closer than it may appear. Against the anxiety of nothingness we speak very little and we listen to question...

  33. Page 480, read by CARLSON HATTON

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 480 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We were collectors, now we're hoarders. We mince junk indiscriminately and leave it unmasked, scattered. On our graveyard shift we sit by a conveyor belt that has no beginning and no off switch. The...

  34. Page 479, read by MARC ARRANAGA

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 479 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Is there pleasure in doing things without preparation? I am too heedful to the future to have any amount of estimable unconsciousness. The eternal cycles grind on. Hope turns arid. No one likes to…

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  35. Page 478, read by MIKE SAMUELSEN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 478 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --The cloak of envy looks corrosive, humiliating, damaging. It seems to confirm our own failure. But underneath it hides a redemptive purpose: the opportunity to know what we want to achieve and how…

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  36. Page 477, read by ERIC RIPPIN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 477 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --It becomes the decision of a lifetime when we are about to let go of our worldly possessions. It feels like a tragic sacrifice. We can't stop serving our things with all our heart. We're unable make…

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  37. Page 476, read by CAITLIN McCARTHY

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 476 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We lack an accurate sense of size and space between us and the rest of the world. Things seem too much, too big, too overwhelming. We feel we won't last long in our own distortion, that we cannot do...

  38. Page 475, read by RAYMOND BURNS

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 475 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Are you afraid to think of the future? Would you like to know how to dismiss it? I think you should quit being preoccupied with Astrology. Astrology always points at you in the face and tells you…

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  39. Page 474, read by ROBERT APODACA

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 474 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --You will be so lonely. You think you're going to inherit someone's possessions, you know it for a fact. But people don't need you because they love you, they love you because they need you. Your...

  40. Page 473, read by ALISA YANG

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 473 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We shouldn't spend too much time memorializing past instants, like those moments when we resolve that our heart should be forever sickened when we let go of something or someone. That's how you get...

  41. Page 472, read by DEVON GLOVER

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 472 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Self-contempt wrecks everything, turns people into ruins, causes decay. Unfortunately self-content is eternal, the more you try to diminish it the bigger it grows. It always comes back until it dies...

  42. Page 471, read by PAUL FREED

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 471 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I'm worried about forgetting. What matters are not places or moments, just how graceful you remain until time makes repugnance to people melt away. You must remember to keep great constancy in being...

  43. Page 470, read by NOAH BECKER

    How can you distinguish between being under water and being above water? You can't if you're compulsively busy. You can't if you mitigate and desensitize the few spare moments where you find yourself with nothing to do and no one to talk to. You can't if you feel superior to others more often…

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  44. Page 469, read by YOSHIE SAKAI

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 469 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Positive feelings are a luxury these days. They're only appropriate in certain places and at certain times, and they are mostly judged upon. You don't see them in a crowded mall where we're...

  45. Page 468, read by ROBERTO CORTEZ

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 468 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --You only say "I didn't give up" after you actually give up. Are you in danger? Of course not, you had no choice but to offer yourself as a victim, and that's all right. We all try to hold time still...

  46. Page 467, read by JAEGER SMITH

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --What's the difference between sleeping with the clothes you wore through the day, and changing your clothes before falling asleep? We stubbornly refuse to deal with reality until reality surrenders to…

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  47. Page 465, read by NORA BERMAN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 465 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --The absence of air in a room with no windows and piles of dirty and clean clothes mixed together, unfolded. Unpaired shoes are littering the floor, there is nothing left to do. Your starring role is...

  48. Page 464, read by KAT BELLOLI

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 464 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Are we in the same boat? I guess we are, although it seems we're going always against the current. Should we steer towards somewhere? Or should we let fortune take us? Letting paper boats go with a...

  49. Page 463, read by LOU BEACH

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 463 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Why should I bother? What is the meaning of all this? Why should I raise questions? It would be better if I would continue burying my emotions under layers of undisturbed expression, composed,...

  50. Page 462, read by KATHRYN GARCIA

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 462 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I am indifferent when I am not disposed. I am not passive when I am resigned. When you create, you endanger your freedom and that makes some people uncomfortable. Freedom is not the absence of…

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens: 513 pages, 513 days, 513 sketches, each published daily along with a brief journal entry exactly at 8:40 AM, The Havisham Hour. The project started January 7th, 2013 and the goal is to culminate it, with your support, June 3rd, 2014. www.HavishamHour.com

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens: 513 pages, 513 days, 513 sketches, each published daily along with a brief journal entry exactly at 8:40 AM, The Havisham Hour. The project started January 7th, 2013 and the goal is to culminate it, with your support, June 3rd, 2014. www.HavishamHour.com

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