Tuesday, May 5, 2020

A Triple Literary Quiz

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I’m thinking of an author who produced: ONE: A writing in which riddles and the number “3” are both given special, interrelated promi...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

The Extraordinary Debate over The Depth, Breadth, and Height of Jane Austen’s Literary Soul

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Four months ago, we had a thread in the Janeites group about Devoney Looser’s exciting discovery of an April Fools Day, 1823 mock letter ab...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Trump & Co's Immodest (barbaric) Proposal to Rid our Country of "useless eaters"

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Today, literature touches real life again. My brilliant old friend Chris has just chillingly summed up one particularly horrific aspect of ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

The Answers to My Quiz with a “Twist”: Austen meets Aristophanes!

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I’m thinking of a great work of literature that meets ALL of the following criteria: ONE: It was written long ago by an author whose na...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Another literary quiz with a twist

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I’m thinking of a great work of literature that meets ALL of the following criteria: It was written long ago by an author whose name ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

The many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead to: Then and Now

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Did you ever think about the unwitting ironic "tell" of Trump constantly using the words "incredible" and "unbelie...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

More Evidence of Mr. Elton’s ‘invasion’ of Emma, during their snowy carriage ride,as a parody of Napoleon ‘frozen’ in Russia

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In November, 2015, I wrote a post in this blog….. http://tinyurl.com/pph3n9j     ….. entitled “Mr. Elton’s ‘invasion’ of Emma, during their...