"They are surely happy," said the prince, "who have all these

conveniencies, of which I envy none so much as the facility with

which separated friends interchange their thoughts."

---Samuel Johnson, Rasselas

Dear Internet, FB, and all sorts of friends,

Think about all the fun we have with our cats ...


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Dear Friends and readers,

Last night I watched the Miramax Enchanted April for a second time and had just about the same reaction I had to the first watching.  Deep enchantment until near the end when the film seemed to be a cop-out, and while I might not speak so harshly of it today, when I reread/skimmed the book I came to the same conclusion as ( Read more... )

Two months since I last wrote here.  I don't want to lose this space by not writing here (it's the source for many of the older pictures on Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two) so for today, a favorite poem from which I took what was my first epigraph for this blog, a list of some of the blogs I've bee writing on Wordpress, and a still from a ( Read more... )

Dear friends,

Since my last entry, the Admiral has had his operation and appears to be on the way to recovery: Sylvia III've opened a new listserv: Historical Fiction & Film Adaptations, 18th to 21st century, Poldark to Austen. Six people have joined and it is having a very mild success (not a total failure): something like 4 of the six people ( Read more... )