Lesson 3: The Revolution Will Not Be Muppetized

You’re probably wondering why I’m about to yap about Fran Leibowitz.

Leibowitz—who at first glance I would not put in Austen’s camp, but Team Jane has a big tent—says in the documentary short, “The Divine Jane”:

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth. Obviously, details change, but writers who date date not because the details date. All details date. Writers date because their ideas date, and that means their ideas are wrong. Her perceptions ...