The First Person To Mention Jane Austen Gets It
Sometimes I worry about my writing if I don't get my life moving soon.(Yes, I like Ms. Austen well enough, but I think it's plain that, small as my life can be sometimes, I'm also not observing many highly stylized and stratified hunt balls and the like. Although the internet could be ripe for some kinds of "comedy of manners" I think, my trifling forays have been the opposite of successful.(I haven't captured that, either.)I get that you don't have to be Hemingway and drinking and fighting and watching bullfights but there's a lot of ordinary stuff I haven't done yet.(But, you know, I want to school, and I'm not, like, writing from the Nervous Hospital or anything