1:48 p.m. May be I should have slept a little longer. Chapter XXI is six pages long. I'll make coffee, smoke, then start reading.
2:03 p.m. Starting now.
2:03 p.m. Oh. I forgot the coffee---
2:05 p.m. Okay, starting now.
2:06 p.m. Is this the chapter where Miss Lucas accepts Mr. Collins' proposal? :)
2:08 p.m. Actually, Mr. Wickham's back :( Is Austen going to leave Elizabeth hanging over that cliff now?
2:12 p.m. Actually, the narrative's moving faster than I anticipated---Mr. Bingley, his sisters, and Mr. Darcy left for the winter :(
2:17 p.m. Elizabeth thinks like a chessplayer :) Unfortunately, she only does that when she's kibitzing (and Jane's playing), she is quite blind in her own game :(
2:21 p.m. Done. Austen, too, uses seasons for symbolism (it will be *winter* when Darcy and Bingley are away), but she is much less obvious about it (than, say, F. Scott Fitzgerald in "Gatsby"), and I like Austen's strategy of working subliminally, I even think it more effective.
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