A BLOG WHEREIN WE WAX RUEFUL UPON: THINGS A WORKING WRITER WONDERS ABOUT. THINGS A WONDERING WRITER WORKS ON. WONDER-FUL WRITERS. WRITER-LY WORKS. WRITING STRATEGIES THAT WORK. WORKS WE WISH WE'D WRITTEN. ROYALTIES WE WISH WE'D RECEIVED. WRITERS WHO EAT WONDER BREAD, WEAR WONDER BRAS, OR THINK THEY'RE WONDER WOMAN. WRITERS WHO ARE WONDERS OF THE WORLD, AT LEAST IN THE WONDERLAND OF THEIR OWN MINDS. IN WRITING, THE WONDERS NEVER CEASE. BUT THEN AGAIN, NEITHER DOES THE WORK.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Sam Sattler's blog, Book Chase, has this as its quote of the moment: Mark Twain's “Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” Very amusing, and new to me. You might think that I, well known to be a "Janeite," would bristle at this, but in fact I always forgive harsh criticism as long as it is funny. (Well, harsh criticism of others' books, at least.) I don't know what bugged Mr. Clemens about Miss Austen, though I could certainly hazard a score or two of guesses, or why he chose the shin-bone in particular. It sounds sort of like a Great Books version of the game Clue, doesn't it?— Mr. Twain, in the Library, with the Shin-bone.
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