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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You read P&P with difficulty because it's not an enjoyable read. It's not the time it's in. It's the writing.
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Wolfie, dear boy:
You misconstrued what I said. Issy is right. I had zip problems reading P&P and I re-read it somewhat regularly. My point was, if we deny ourselves those things that would offend us today...good lord, we'd be a lot of ignorami. More than we already are. I can hardly read much of what happens to any Austen heroine (to sort of abuse that word) without outrage at the constraints of their times. It doesn't mean I
won't read it because it offends my liberated 21st-century sensibilities. Nor would I pamper my brain that way--
that sort of brain doesn't deserve pampering.
Hitch