Did you know Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" has---wait for it---61 chapters? Sixty-one! I kid you not!
To put things into perspective: If these were to be published---as Conan Doyle's "Baskervilles" was---one chapter at a time in a monthly magazine, this book would have run longer than five years.
Even if Austen published one chapter in each issue of a weekly magazine, it would run well over a year.
If I were to read the book the way I have been reading other books---one chapter a day--- and had I started on March 1, I would have finished it on April 30.
But today is March 20, the reading log is due on April 25, so I have only 37 days left to read the 61 chapters---that is, 37 days including today and the day it's due. I do want to continue reading only one chapter at a time, so I will be reading (and blogging) twice a day on most days during the next few weeks (exceptions will be the days when I have to drive to Ann Arbor, write a response statement, etc.).
Let's get started already:
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11:48 a.m. I can't believe I'm doing this before noon :(
11:49 a.m. At least the first chapter's only three pages long.
11:49 a.m. I agree that it is a truth :)
11:50 a.m. Beautiful way to start!
11:55 a.m. Done. This may not be a Herculean task after all, if the other 60 chapters are as short---and read as well---as this one did :) Summary paragraph at the end of the chapter---following the model we learnt for informative speeches in Comm 101 last semester---and I didn't mind the exposition in that last paragraph.
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