Luke’s Reviews > The Tenant of Wildfell Hall > Status Update

If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good.

What he would be, if I did not so watchfully anticipate his wants, and so carefully avoid, or immediately desist from doing anything that has a tendency to irritate or disturb him, with however little reason, I cannot tell.

This week's class is canceled. Bah humbug >:(

I'm very pleased to be returning to this in a more scholarly context.

If a consciousness of the uncertainty of life can dispose you to serious and useful thoughts, I would not deprive you of the benefit of such reflections, whether you do eventually recover or not.

And here we see why all men want to marry their mothers, with the added bonus of being able to rape them and beat them as they please.

'Why did you let the dog out?' he asked. 'You knew I wanted him.' 'By what token?' I replied; 'by throwing the book at him? but perhaps it was intended for me?' Change the vernacular a tad and the locale a bit and the century a smidge and you have an A+ crash course in US masculinity. This is why time =/= progress.

The story of the Brontë sisters is one of many reasons why I so fervently promote books by women. I'm never going to get over it.