Status Updates From Persuasion

2/2: ". . . It seems so natural . . . so easy, that we are apt to forget the performance in the sense of its reality. The literary taste of the majority is always tinged with coarseness; it loves exaggeration, & slights the modesty of truth."

—appendix extract from Julia Kavanagh, "The Language of Feeling," from "English Women of Letters" (1862)

1/2: "Wonderful, indeed, is the power that out of materials so slender, out of characters so imperfectly marked, could fashion a story. This is her great, her prevailing merit, & yet it cannot be denied, it is one that injures her with many readers . . ."

jane austen basically invented slowburn, can anne and wentworth confess their love already??? and why do several people want to marry their cousins??

Za sada nisam odusevljen. Previse likova a jako malo radnje. Sporo dosta i zapao mi je stari arhaični prevod iz 50ih muka ga za čitati.

Ni blizu knjige Gordost i Predraduda ali tek sam na pola knjige.