Re: Paradigms c.1813 LO3084

John Woods (jwoods@execpc.com)
Fri, 6 Oct 1995 22:32:16 -0500 (CDT)

Replying to LO3083 --

>Jane Austen says -
>
>> The manner in wich they spoke of the Meryton assembly was
>> sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met with
>> pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life; everybody had
>> been most attentive and kind to him, there had been no formality,
>> no stiffness, he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and
>> as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful.
>> Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom
>> there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had
>> felt the smallest interest, and from none received either
>> attention or pleasure. Miss Bennett he acknowledged to be pretty,
>> but she smiled too much.

I have often said "The world (and our lives) is exactly like we think it
is, and that's why." This is another way of saying, life is a
self-fulfilling prophecy. And we can't avoid this. So we might as well
"get with the program."

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John Woods
jwoods@execpc.com