Oct 19, 2009

Non-Sense and Sensibility

Before:
I would say, "Leave me alone, don't talk about that guy who has been leading me on or I'm going to cry."

After reading Sense and Sensibility:
"From their counsel, or their conversation, she knew she could receive no assistance, their tenderness and sorrow must add to her distress, while her self-command would neither receive encouragement from their example nor from their praise. She was stronger alone, and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Before:
"That was boring."

After reading Sense and Sensibility:
"The insipidity of the meeting was exactly such as Elinor had expected; it produced not one novelty of thought or expression, and nothing could be less interesting than the whole of their discourse in both the dining parlour and drawing room."

2 comments:

  1. You already read the whole book? You just got it Sunday.

    Also- the other CAsey is right- you ARE quite creative.

    I found the movie Sense & Sensibility a bit slow... Couldn't read it either.

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  2. At that point, i had read 1/3 of the book. I invested some serious time Sunday night. I had finished all but 20 pages by book club, which was Thursday night. Now onto a new conquest!

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