"Her Spirits were naturally good, and not easily depressed, and she possessed such a fund of vivacity and good humour as could only be damped by some very serious vexation.- Besides these antidotes against every disappointment, and consolations under them, she had another, which afforded her constant relief in all her misfortunes, and that was a fine shady Bower, the work of her own infantine Labours..."
~from Jane Austen's Catherine, or the Bower
Thursday, September 2, 2010
more from Don Colacho
"The feminists are ridiculous; the anti-feminists are vulgar." ~Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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