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Mel
is 65% done
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.
I'm reminded of my own impulse to pick up this volume to begin with. Deciding who is worthy of my time, defying the male canon of literature.
— 3 hours, 17 min ago
I'm reminded of my own impulse to pick up this volume to begin with. Deciding who is worthy of my time, defying the male canon of literature.
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Mel
is 59% done
Without boasting or giving pain to the opposite sex, one may say that Pride and Prejudice is a good book.
*squints*
Attempting... to detect... sarcasm...
— 3 hours, 23 min ago
*squints*
Attempting... to detect... sarcasm...
Mel
is 42% done
looking about the shelves for books that were not there
Highlighting the absence of women from the annals of history
— 3 hours, 28 min ago
Highlighting the absence of women from the annals of history
Mel
is 36% done
Food, house and clothing are mine for ever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hared and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me.
*dances about like an Oompa Loompa*
What, do you get, when your needs are all met?
Poverty no longer looms as a... threat?
Capitalism won't ever hurt me
Now that I have an annuity!
(But what about the rest of us?)
Oompa Loompa, doopity doo!
— 6 hours, 35 min ago
*dances about like an Oompa Loompa*
What, do you get, when your needs are all met?
Poverty no longer looms as a... threat?
Capitalism won't ever hurt me
Now that I have an annuity!
(But what about the rest of us?)
Oompa Loompa, doopity doo!
Mel
is 13% done
The organ complained magnificently as I passed the chapel door.
*groans*
The organ. COMPLAINED. Magnificently.
GodDAMN but she can write!
— 6 hours, 59 min ago
*groans*
The organ. COMPLAINED. Magnificently.
GodDAMN but she can write!
Mel
is 10% done
On the further bank the willows wept in perpetual lamentation, their hair about their shoulders.
I was ready for some feminist discourse. I was not prepared for the descriptive scene-setting! I didn't know we were allowed to do that in essays!
— 7 hours, 2 min ago
I was ready for some feminist discourse. I was not prepared for the descriptive scene-setting! I didn't know we were allowed to do that in essays!
