We got back earlier than usual, so I'm reading a second chapter. I still have trouble believing I'm actually reading something with 61 chapters!
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9:58 p.m. Chapter XVIII is 14 pages long!! Of course---this is the ball. I'll go out to smoke, and I'll start reading when I get back.
10:07 p.m. Okay, I'm starting now.
10:09 p.m. "... she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin ..."---textbook example of comic relief :)
10:15 p.m. At last! "Prejudice" is in the house now :)
10:21 p.m. Collins again, like dessert after dinner :)
10:27 p.m. Mrs. Bennet, too, can play comic relief, though not as well as Mr. Collins :) Another cigarette break before the last few pages (long chapter).
10:36 p.m. Back. Let's get this done now---
10:38 p.m. I don't really see Mary as a figure of comic relief---tragic relief may be a more apt description. But now Collins is on again :)
10:41 p.m. Fast-forward mode again. This, too, Austen does amazingly well.
10:45 p.m. Done. More tomorrow!
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