obstinate.
from the Cowley Image Archive
All was sunshine and flowers until the library delivered the wrong book for an interlibrary loan. I don’t care what the critics say, Allen Mandelbaum is no Gavin Douglas.*
* Brief critical introduction to and biography of Douglas. He also has the dubious honor of being somewhere commended by Ezra Pound.
modesty & the art of pronunciation.
Sometimes I go into bookstores to fortify myself with a few judicious excerpts from favored novels, viz.:
‘Persuaded as Miss Bingley was that Darcy admired Elizabeth, this was not the best method of recommending herself; but angry people are not always wise; and in seeing him at last look somewhat nettled, she had all the [...]
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