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Pip and how
It appears in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations, as the only card game Pip, the book's protagonist, as a child seems to know how to play.
When Pip claims he can't remember how to eat, Rocky shoots him in the head but finds that the bullets just bounce off, leaving Pip unharmed.
Pip revealed how he was transformed into a troll.
However, an offer comes for Pip from an anonymous benefactor to move to London and learn how to become a gentleman.
Pip spends the rest of his time in London learning how to be a gentleman.
At the ball, Pip and Estella dance, and talk about how Pip is now a fine young gentleman.
In an episode of the Twilight Zone, " In Praise of Pip ", a bookie tries to tell his dying son how much he loves him while chasing him inside a house of mirrors ; the 1984 movie Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzenegger contains a house of mirrors fight, and the 1983 Walt Disney movie Something Wicked This Way Comes ( an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel of the same title ) culminates in a house of mirrors confrontation.

Pip and Estella
The original version, in which Pip and Estella do not get together, remains as a note in most editions.
The character Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, describes the name to Pip, the protagonist, this way:
Pip, the narrator, is the eventual victim ; and Miss Havisham readily dresses Estella in jewels to prettify her all the more and to exemplify all the more the vast social gulf between her and Pip.
It is this that drives Pip to ultimately agree to become a gentleman, and when, as a young adult, Estella leaves for France to receive education, Miss Havisham eagerly asks him, " Do you feel you have lost her ?”
Miss Havisham repents late in the novel when Estella leaves to marry Pip's rival, Bentley Drummle ; and she realises that she has caused Pip ’ s heart to be broken in the same manner as her own ; rather than achieving any kind of personal revenge, she has only caused more pain.
The last words she speaks in the novel are ( in a delirium ) to Pip, referencing both Estella and a note she, Miss Havisham, has given him with her signature: " Take the pencil and write under my name, ' I forgive her!
Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.
Pip and Estella meet when he is brought to Miss Havisham's ill-kept mansion, Satis House, ostensibly to satisfy the elder Miss Havisham's " sick fancy " to be entertained by watching Pip have his heart broken by Estella.
Estella states throughout the text, that she does not love Pip, however this is contradicted by the fact that she shows numerous times in the novel that she holds Pip in a much higher regard compared to other men, and doesn't want to break his heart like she does with the others that she seduces.
One of the possible meanings of this is that Estella, even though she doesn't acknowledge the fact, loves Pip.
Pip is fascinated with the lovely Estella, though her heart is as cold as ice.
Estella criticizes Pip's honest but " coarse " ways, and from that point on, Pip grows dissatisfied with his position in life and, eventually, with his former values and friends as well.
Pip spends years as companion to Miss Havisham and, by extension, Estella.
Estella warns Pip that she cannot love him, or anyone.
In fact, Pip discovers that Miss Havisham's lessons have worked all too well on Estella ; when both are visiting the elderly woman, Miss Havisham makes gestures of affection towards her adopted daughter and is shocked that Estella is neither able nor willing to return them.

Pip and would
In 1985 Pip Cordrey gathered some people on a BBS he ran to create a MUD1 clone that would run on a home computer.
In contrast to Fatty's rather relaxed parents, Mr and Mrs Hilton are quite strict and often take a dim view of Pip and Bets's sleuthing activities, wishing that Pip especially would direct the same amount of energy into his schoolwork.
** Pip was somewhat cowardly and self-preservatory, and would keep his Space Gem safe because he would teleport to safety at the first sign of trouble.
As a running gag, the Pythons would frequently insert " Ann Haydon-Jones and her husband Pip " into any sketch where a list of names was being read off.
Another creative high-water mark, this feverishly imaginative feature from Starlin, who had similarly reinvigorated Captain Marvel, introduced the Marvel characters Gamora, Ellie the Freak, Pip the Troll and The Magus, and helped establish the mythos Starlin would mine in his many " Infinity " sagas of the 1990s.
* Pip, from Dickens ’ s Great Expectations, would be considered a parvenu by many.

Pip and look
** Pip kept his between his toes, stating that " a gem on the forehead ain't my look.
After getting into much more trouble, Pip decided to look for Adam again.

Pip and down
Held upside down in the graveyard, Pip clings in terror `` with both hands '' to his convict ; ;
When Jamie Madrox and Banshee track it down and take it off of the neck of a drunken bar patron, he reverts to Pip the Troll.
Without the pendant hiding him, Hela is able to track down Pip, whom she captures.
for short )-Allows Pip to levitate straight up or down, but if used indoors it causes a concussion when you hit the ceiling and the loss of half your current Life Points.
South Park ends up winning because Pip becomes filled with rage whenever kids incorrectly call him " French ", giving him the strength to take down the other team.
Mitzi and Edmund had been persuaded by Miss Marple to play parts in tripping Charlotte Blacklock up ; Miss Marple's plans were almost brought down when Phillipa admitted to being Pip, but Inspector Craddock thought fast enough to turn around and claim Edmund was after Phillipa's money.

Pip and upon
As Pip agonizes over the theft that his own hands have committed, his guilty conscience projects itself upon the wooden finger of a local signpost, transforming it into `` a phantom devoting me to the Hulks ''.
Pip's great expectations, his progress through illusion and disillusionment, turn, somewhat as they do for the naive hero of Dreiser's American Tragedy, upon the lure of genteel prosperity through unearned income -- what Wemmick calls `` portable property '' and what Jaggers reproaches Pip for letting `` slip through ( his ) fingers ''.
The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.
Pip is often called upon by Merlin to right wrongs and save the realm from evil.

Pip and hands
Magwitch terrifies Pip into stealing a pork pie for him by creating the image in the boy's imagination of a bogy man who may `` softly creep his way to him and tear him open '', `` imbruing his hands '' in him.
Orlick shakes his hand at Pip, bangs the table with his fist, draws his unclenched hand `` across his mouth as if his mouth watered '' for his victim, lets his hands hang `` loose and heavy at his sides '', and Pip observes him so intensely that he knows `` of the slightest action of his fingers ''.
It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.
Pip first learns `` the stupendous power of money '' from the sycophantic tailor, Mr. Trabb, whose brutality to his boy helper exactly matches the financial resource of each new customer, and whose fawning hands touch `` the outside of each elbow '' and `` rub '' Pip out of the shop.
Karl Fitzgerald and Christian Diaz left Earthcore in the following years leaving the business in the hands of Spiro Boursine and Pip Darvall.

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