Even if you don't read my blog (why not???), you should read the comments. Somehow my blog attracts people who are much more interesting & insightful than me about literature. The below are about Laclos's "Dangerous Liaisons": thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.com/2024/09/danger… thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.com/2024/08/danger…

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i feel like modern people are incapable of getting that people in the past were also capable of making jokes and being silly and shortly after photography came around, making silly photos

A reminder to those who need it: a ‘thunderplump’ (19th-century dialect) is a torrential downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.

beautiful

All the great books I read have had an impact on me, but: - "Anna Karenina" started my lifelong love* for Tolstoy & Russian literature - "Macbeth" gave me the Shakespeare bug, incurable *: can't imagine it going away.

I have always thought "Wuthering Heights" is impossible to bring off on screen, but Jacob Elordi to play Heathcliff & Margot Robbie to play Cathy??? Are you mad??? variety.com/2024/film/news…

Some cool animals (pangolins & armadillos) I saw at #NaturalHistoryMuseum, #London.

#NaturalHistoryMuseum, #London.

My photos of #KensingtonGardens, #London from a few weeks ago.

This is what people talk about when they want to talk about Shakespeare but have nothing to say about literary merit, interpretation, or the English language.

Being vain. (Photos not from today)

Elon Musk wakes up every day & says to himself, okay what do I do to make Twitter worse?

For a long time, I didn't watch it because it started the whole craze &, let's be honest, the Janeite industry & the fandom are very annoying. But it really is an excellent adaptation of "Pride & Prejudice".