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	Jude the Obscure - Chapter 3 - Thomas Hardy - Read Print
		He descended from the barn, and abandoning Christminster with the versatility of his age he walked along the ridge-track, looking for any natural objects of interest that might lie in the banks thereabout.
		He thought again of Christminster, and wished, since he had come two or three miles from his aunt's house on purpose, that he could have seen for once this attractive city of which he had been told.
		And the city acquired a tangibility, a permanence, a hold on his life, mainly from the one nucleus of fact that the man for whose knowledge and purposes he had so much reverence was actually living there; not only so, but living among the more thoughtful and mentally shining ones therein.
	www.readprint.com /chapter-5026/Thomas-Hardy (2296 words)

	Rise of the Novel: Jude/Christminster : Hardy/Oxford ?
		The university town of Christminster plays a pivotal role in Jude the Obscure, setting the plot in motion with Jude's initial exclusion from the prestigious college, but also remaining an important backdrop for the tragic unravelling of Jude's life.
		It becomes obvious from early in the novel that Jude's exclusion from Christminster is part of Hardy's rather scathing critique of the institutions of his era.
		You are one of the very men Christminster was intended for when the colleges were founded; a man with a passion for learning, but no money, or opportunities, or friends.
	www.oconnorcourses.net /ENG60-2003/archives/000240.html (459 words)

	SparkNotes: Jude the Obscure: Part II: At Christminster
		He finds a note from her at his lodgings, saying that she heard of his arrival in Christminster and would have liked to meet him, but might be going away soon.
		Jude finds that the Christminster colleges are not welcoming toward self-educated men, and he accepts that he may not be able to study at the university after all.
		Christminster will not accept him because he belongs to the working class, yet he is intelligent and well-read through independent study.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/jude/section2.rhtml (1112 words)

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		Christminster overcomes more than a few of the obstacles that keep casual gamers and readers unfamiliar with the form from enjoying interactive fiction.
		Christminster is inferior to the Lurking Horror in one respect: MIT students won't find any splufty in-jokes to appreciate.
		Christminster 8.3 13 votes As always, please remember that the scoreboard is only as good as the contributions it receives.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/interactive-fiction/magazines/SPAG/SPAG20 (17415 words)

	Oxford Blues
		Christminster (Oxford) is the vessel within which society must accept the status quo.
		It is at Christminster where Hardy's Jude is immediately "impressed with the isolation of his own personality, as with a self-spectre, the sensation being that of one who walked, but could not make himself seen or heard" (80; 2.1).
		Julie Henigan believes that "Jude views Christminster not simply as a means to an end (such as wealth or fame), but as an end in itself, a celestial city whose 'ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection'" (12).
	www.umd.umich.edu /casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/OXFORDBL.htm (1287 words)

	Game Reviews C - SPAG
		URL: ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/minster.z5 "Upon this Oath that I shall heere you give..." The seventeenth-century verse that begins Christminster brings on tingles, dropping the interactor directly into an atmosphere of ancient secrecy, a world where mysteries must be unlocked.
		In some ways Christminster might be held up against with The Lurking Horror -- the university setting and occult mysteries being the obvious points of comparison.
		This, along with several important smaller touches, makes Christminster a work of lasting value, of interest to both veterans of Spellbreaker and readers of the conspiratorial Pynchon and Eco.
	www.sparkynet.com /spag/c.html (19476 words)

	Seminary
		Christminster House is a modest proposal to provide for the time being a formation program for Orthodox clergy (of whatever canonical Orthodox jurisdiction) dedicated to serving in the western-rite.
		Christminster House hopes to provide accommodation for full or part-time students, thus accommodating working clergy.
		The modest proposal presented here is the vision and goal of Christminster – Christ the Saviour Monastery – a western-rite monastic community in the Benedictine tradition presently within the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
	www.christminster.org /seminary.htm (1255 words)

	FORMER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was the vision of Mount Royal's founders - a vision firmly adhered to under Abbot Augustine and lovingly maintained at Christminster - to preserve the contemplative and eremitical dimension of the monastic life as much as possible.
		In the meantime, Christminster remains committed to maintaining the fullness and purity of the Orthodox faith in its western-rite tradition.
		Encouraged and inspired by these words, Christminster lovingly maintains the western Orthodox rite, each day celebrating the Mass according to the ancient rite dating from the time when the west was still firmly Orthodox in its faith and observance.
	www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /179/FORMER.htm (490 words)

	Homepage of Shajahan T K
		Jude Fawly was a stone-mason who from childhood had nurtured the ambition to be a scholar in one of the great centres of learning, Christminster (probably Cambridge).
		See the quotes from "Jude the Obscure", what Thomas Hardy thought a University should be and what it was (and is).
		"Christminster is a sort of fixed vision with him, which I suppose he will never be cured of believing in.
	www.physics.iisc.ernet.in /~shajahan/Books/blog.html (1090 words)

	XYZZYnews Issue #5: Game Reviews
		Christminster is the home of Biblioll College, where your brother Malcolm teaches.
		The range of puzzles in "Christminster" is enormous -- there are a few that are more like the brainteaser puzzles in Gareth's earlier game "Magic Toyshop," such as breaking the code for Malcolm's encrypted note, and others that are more typical of those found in IF games, like locked-door puzzles.
		"Christminster" joins the crowded field of IF games with a collegiate setting, but this one comes in at or near the head of the class.
	www.xyzzynews.com /xyzzy.5g.html (1653 words)

	Christminster: an interactive conspiracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But when you get to Christminster, nothing is as you expect.
		So when you received that telegram from him you leapt at the excuse to come up to the university town of Christminster for the day and visit him.
		It is a hot summer's day in Christminster, the kind of day that makes you think of strawberries and cream and punting on the river.
	www.doggysoft.co.uk /inform/play/chrsm.html (429 words)

	Find christminster, , at myEweb.com
		Christminster, or Christ the Savior Monastery, is a Benedictine Western Rite...
		Christminster is a western-rite monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside...
		Christminster is a text adventure game written in Inform and playable on almost...
	uk.myeweb.com /web/index.php?qry_str=Christminster (255 words)

	XYZZYnews Issue #6: Game Design and Analysis
		In Christminster, I identified a set of key scenes, each of which was an event or experience that affected the player character, and moved the story forwards towards the conclusion, and yet could plausibly be implemented as a section of an adventure game.
		For example, in Christminster, the puzzle in which Christabel must escape from the secret passage is there to make the reader stay around and listen to Wilderspin (not vice versa, as the naive reader might expect!).
		When I was debugging Christminster, I had a walkthrough which exercised all the puzzles and many of the game's interesting responses, and I kept a transcript of the game produced by capturing the output of the walkthrough.
	www.xyzzynews.com /xyzzy.6g.html (1723 words)

	Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy - Section 3 of 53 - Book Club/Fiction - ArcaMax Publishing
		Phillotson's face, being breathed by him; and now you are here, breathed by me--you, the very same." Suddenly there came along this wind something towards him--a message from the place--from some soul residing there, it seemed.
		I should think I did know a little about Christminster!" By this time the horses had recovered breath and bent to their collars again.
		A friend o' mine, that used to clane the boots at the Crozier Hotel in Christminster when he was in his prime, why, I knowed un as well as my own brother in his later years." Jude continued his walk homeward alone, pondering so deeply that he forgot to feel timid.
	www.arcamax.com /fiction/b-1671-3 (2361 words)

	'Romanticism in Jude the Obscure
		The second disappointment in Christminster is in his re-acquaintance with Phillotson: Phillotson's lack of success "destroyed at one stroke the halo which had surrounded the schoolmaster's figure in Jude's imagination ever since their parting" (II iv 102).
		Throughout the novel Jude is continually transfixed by Christminster, and the pull of the city remains strong: Sue says to Arabella, "'Of course Christminster is a sort of fixed vision with him, which I suppose he'll never be cured of believing in.
		Because Christminster never lives up to his expectations, particularly once he has moved there (in Book Two), Jude needs something new upon which to anchor his ideals, and he receives an almost epiphanic vision that Sue Bridehead, his cousin, is that something.
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/0498/0498jude.htm (4766 words)

	OCCIDENTALIS: Christminster Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1975, under Abbot Augustine, the monastery was received into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia by Archbishop Nikon Rklitzsky, who again authorized and blessed its mission and observances.
		In 1993, upon the retirement of Abbot Augustine, Christminster was founded with the blessing of Bishop Hilarion of Manhattan to carry on the work of western-rite Orthodoxy in the ROCOR Synod.
		It was the vision of Mount Royal's founders – a vision firmly adhered to under Abbot Augustine and lovingly maintained at Christminster to preserve the contemplative and eremitical dimension of the monastic life as much as possible.
	occidentalis.blogspot.com /2005/08/christminster-monastery.html (605 words)

	GradeSaver: E-Text of Jude the Obscure
		Ever since his first ecstasy or vision of Christminster and its possibilities, Jude had meditated much and curiously on the probable sort of process that was involved in turning the expressions of one language into those of another.
		There were no brains in his head equal to this business; and as the little sun-rays continued to stream in through his hat at him, he wished he had never seen a book, that he might never see another, that he had never been born.
		He seemed to see his way to living comfortably in Christminster in the course of a year or two, and knocking at the doors of one of those strongholds of learning of which he had dreamed so much.
	www.gradesaver.com /etext/titles/jude/section1.html (20442 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics) - Thomas Hardy, Dennis Taylor - Product Details :: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control.
		Christminster was an amalgam of Oxford and Cambridge, the very alma mater of many of the offended critics.
		In order for Hardy to create such an unremitting world of gloom, he had to do some serious tinkering with a style of writing that was pretty gloomy in its own right.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0140435387-locale-us.html (2140 words)

	Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Christminster is a monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
		As a canonical Orthodox monastery, it is in communion only with those missions, parishes, monasteries or ecclesial bodies approved by the Holy Synod of ROCOR Bishops.
		Christminster, or Christ the Savior Monastery, is a Benedictine Western Rite Orthodox monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad located in Providence, Rhode Island.
	www.christminster.org (83 words)

	IF Ratings for Christminster
		Nicely detailed, but a real puzzlefest -- a lot of things are made much more difficult than they need to be (the first puzzle -- getting in -- is a good example of this).
		Although it is showing its age these days, Christminster remains the most satisfying puzzlefest I have ever played.
		Compared to other classics from the mid-90s, Christminster holds its own rather well by today's higher standards.
	www.carouselchain.com /if/v1/comments.php?rategame=43 (489 words)

	What we sing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Christminster Singers are lucky in having one of the leading researchers of this music, Dave Townsend, as their director.
		The original repertoire of the Christminster Singers came out of Thomas Hardy’s family carol book.
		Being a choir connected to Thomas Hardy and from Oxford, we chose his name for Oxford –; Christminster – as our own.
	www.christminster-singers.org.uk /what.html (231 words)

	Games with alchemical content
		At a time when game designers, like film makers, are exhorted to read their Joseph Campbell and their Jung, it is only to be expected that Dame Alchemy will make her presence known in the realm of games.
		Director Cecilia Barajas uses alchemical insights deriving from Jung in her plot line, and incorporates graphics from Fludd and Maier.
		Christminster by Gareth Rees, is an "interactive fiction" (ie text-adventure) game set in Biblioll College, Christminster, which opens with a quote from the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum and makes references to "Lully", Eirenaeus Philalethes etc. along the way.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/games.html (603 words)

	Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Christminster
		One of my most favorite IF games of all time, Christminster is a thoroughly entertaining features some of the best NPCs ever coded in a game, and memorable atmosphere and puzzles.
		Although reminiscent of Graham Nelson's classic Curses in its Victorian setting and gentle British wit, Christminster truly holds its own with more colorful characters (most of which you need to take advantage of, one way or the other), and a more structured plot, confined gameworld, and easier (but not easy) puzzles.
		A great game for every IF fan, especially anyone who's intimidated by Curses's complexity, or an IF beginner who has played his/her first IF games and are now ready for a tougher challange.
	www.the-underdogs.info /game.php?id=198 (209 words)

	MonkeyNotes-Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jude is poor, but intelligent and hardworking and he manages to make considerable progress in his studies even though he is without a teacher.
		Jude himself is in love with Sue, and the fact that he is still legally married to Arabella does not permit him to pursue his cousin.
		Meanwhile, Jude is refused entrance to any of the colleges in Christminster and is extremely disheartened.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJude05.asp (647 words)

	Jude the Obscure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hardy, himself a stonemason in earlier years, also did not go to university, and his first wife, Emma Gifford, also became more and more religious as years passed.
		The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason in the fictional southwest English region of Wessex who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford, England.
		After she leaves, he moves to Christminster from his village and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later (he never will).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jude_the_Obscure (746 words)

	Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
		But, oh no- poor or'nary child- there never was any sprawl on thy side of the family, and never will be!" "Where is this beautiful city, Aunt- this place where Mr.
		We've never had anything to do with folk in Christminster, nor folk in Christminster with we." Jude went out, and, feeling more than ever his existence to be an undemanded one, he lay down upon his back on a heap of litter near the pig-sty.
		The fog had by this time become more translucent, and the position of the sun could be seen through it.
	www.4literature.net /Thomas_Hardy/Jude_the_Obscure/5.html (809 words)

	Hardy, Thomas - Jude the Obscure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.
		I lived about London by myself for some time, and then I returned to Christminster, as my father-- who was also in London, and had started as an art metal-worker near Long-Acre--wouldn't have me back; and I got that occupation in the artist-shop where you found me....
		A small Bible other than the one he was using lay near her, and during his retreat she took it up, and turned over the leaves.
	www.classicallibrary.org /hardy/jude/22.htm (2733 words)

	Fumbling Towards Ecstacy: The Real Jerry Springer
		When the town schoolmaster, Richard Phillotson, moves to Christminster, Jude vows to escape the countryside one day and make it to Christminster, where the center of universities and higher learning are.
		He learns that he has a cousin also in Christminster, the lovely Sue Bridehead.
		But even if she is lawfully married to Phillotson, Sue still finds herself having clandestine tete a tetes with Jude.
	bookofjean.blogspot.com /2006/09/real-jerry-springer.html (653 words)

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