Austen Knows Best: A Thought

"And to this purpose"

"If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate; and though I know it is all very right and necessary, I have often wondered at the person's courage that could sit down on purpose to do it." (In other words: rambling analyses, opinions, ideas, views, and comments from an English major, Essay/paper-writing enthusiastic, Austen-loving Master Librarian on, well, Jane Austen...and a whole lot of other things, too.)

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

A Thought

I believe that to me the misspelling of the name of Jane Austen is slightly more irksome than the misspelling of mine own. Slightly. Perhaps on the dependance upon varying situations and depths of the knowing of and acquaintance with the perpetrator.