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[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:


“It is more honest to confess at once how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy. This is no furniture for the scholar’s library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near . . ."

—Robert Louis Stevenson, from the dedication for Kidnapped


















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Comments

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Kidnapped is an odd little story. It has some great period scenes (period for the 1880s, not the 1750s, but still...of the pre-automotive age) and one of my favorite expressions-- "ye're a man of small contrivance"-- but it seems to end more or less with a THUNK.

Just by the way, kind of on that subject, you might enjoy Marjorie Plant's "The Domestic Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century" (1952)-- quite well written, and fascinating.

[pjthompson]

Thanks.