"I put a spell on you
... cause you're mine." Muhahaha >:)
Also: Happy Spring.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
Jane Austen Marathon
While many chores are piling up waiting for me to attend to them, I have been spending my nights reading some of the Asten novels I had previously ignored: Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Reading Austen in English is exhausting for me. Having English as a second language and being used to more contemporary styles of writing, I have to read each sentence three times to understand the meaning (if I do understand, that is). While I personally don't find the writing amazing or anything, I find Jane Ausetn's morals very firm and clear. It seems as if she's got this image of a perfect person - how they should talk, think and act - and people who don't match this image are inevitably second-rate characters in her stories.
irrelevant note: it's snowing in Vancouver!
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