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Ohhh Emma, Emma. Pearl clutching at the very idea of people of different classes dancing together! How can we tell who is Topp if we so promiscuously mingle together?
Then came
Brother Elias, scowling, to his side,
Small-souled Elias, crying by book and candle,
This was outrageous! Had the friars no pride?
Music at deathbeds! Ah, the shame! the scandal!
Though now I have to wonder, what exactly is meant by elegant in Austen? Jane Fairfax is elegant but what does that mean in a purely physical sense? Who do I know who is elegant? E2R I suppose, by default, but otherwise--- no Trump spouse, obviously. Michelle Obama? Uhhh. Mh. Margot Fonteyn was, but dancers have to be. I'm inclined to say most French women, just going by what I saw 40 years ago, but I can't isolate wherein exactly the elegance lay. And I won't even try to imagine what was meant by elegance of mind.
Have been trying to make the Persian dish of dill beans and rice, and conclude from the online recipes that, in the words of a long ago friend, all ethnic cooking is designed to keep women in the kitchen. No I am not going to steam my rice, thanks ever so. But if I try this again, will use lima beans, not the many-shelled favas.
Otherwise tackled the side bedroom and vacuumed up many dust elephants, so go me for that.
Then came
Brother Elias, scowling, to his side,
Small-souled Elias, crying by book and candle,
This was outrageous! Had the friars no pride?
Music at deathbeds! Ah, the shame! the scandal!
Though now I have to wonder, what exactly is meant by elegant in Austen? Jane Fairfax is elegant but what does that mean in a purely physical sense? Who do I know who is elegant? E2R I suppose, by default, but otherwise--- no Trump spouse, obviously. Michelle Obama? Uhhh. Mh. Margot Fonteyn was, but dancers have to be. I'm inclined to say most French women, just going by what I saw 40 years ago, but I can't isolate wherein exactly the elegance lay. And I won't even try to imagine what was meant by elegance of mind.
Have been trying to make the Persian dish of dill beans and rice, and conclude from the online recipes that, in the words of a long ago friend, all ethnic cooking is designed to keep women in the kitchen. No I am not going to steam my rice, thanks ever so. But if I try this again, will use lima beans, not the many-shelled favas.
Otherwise tackled the side bedroom and vacuumed up many dust elephants, so go me for that.