On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Supriya Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see what you mean about snark SNARK!!! The very word I was looking for. > *beam* It's great to meet you too. I've long been a lurking admirer of your > posts to this list. * head swells up visibly* What have > you been re-reading? I just got back home from a three-month stint in > Calcutta and the first thing I did was to crack open Persuasion, which is > full of hideous characters, and still manages to tolerate and accommodate > them. It's a marvel. A marvel! I yam reading Yemma. I find her sense of the "superiority" and "inferiority" of certain classes has a lovely echo in the Indian society of today....and that whole females.and- fate-worse-than-death hypocritical morality, which I see all around me now...I have a 25-year old friend whose father is in the US, and is telling her mother not to leave her alone for 4 days and go to Chennai, as she will "go out of control"! My other Austen favourites are P&P and S&S. And if you want to get to the original scent-se of this thread... this is what a drift smells like! Deepa.
