@vonny,
Quote:Jane Austen - like but not love - too much at school!
Ah vonny!! Try it now. You couldn't really be expected to learn the art of reading at school. There are all sorts of factors preventing it. Being young. Being in a sort of prison. The incompetence of teachers. The cheap edition. The motives of the choices.
It is rather similar to walking past the Las Meninas of Velazquez at 3 mph whilst eating a hamburger in order to have "seen" it. Another self-flattering box to be ticked. Like being able to spell "quantum".
I look into all the threads I see relating to books and I get no other impression other than that they are items of consumption one really ought to have on one's CV to be considered intellectual or something or other.
They are nothing to do with that.
And I am not a pedant. It was unfair of you to say so after I explained my reasons. I am not about to post a musical piece to demonstrate my taste in music. It can't be done. It's too forced. It's constraining and distorting. The real thing arrives out of the blue. If something grabs me I'm moved to share it but only for what it is and what it says.
My ballet cuts were to remind people that the idea of "equality" between men and women is ridiculous.
