Loser's Guide
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Thursday, July 07, 2005
The only portrait of Jane Austen I have seen is probably the one everybody knows, an engraving in which she appears rather crapulous and out of sorts. I think she was probably a great boozer who would periodically straighten out and write one of those novels. I don't think you can read much of any of her work without coming to that conclusion. The tension, the cruelty, the joyless humour. Perhaps she was just miserable. I prefer to think she was drunk much of the time.
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posted by P. Drāno at 8:58 PM
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