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Am having an orgie of Arthur Ransom, thanks in part to the kindness of legionseagle, who very kindly sent me Winter Holiday and The Picts and the Martyrs to supplement my recent purchase of We Didn't Mean to go to Sea

Am also rereading Diary of a Provincial Lady, which I recommend, rather, and from which I feel impelled to share an excerpt:

... Final straw is added when Lady B. amiably observes that I, at least, have nothing to complain of, as she always thinks Robert such a safe, respectable husband for any woman. Give her briefly to understand that Robert is in reality a compound of Don Juan, the Marquis de Sade, and Dr. Crippen, but that we do not care to let it be known locally...

Also, the Guardian has just reprinted Virgina Woolf's excellent Shakespeare's Sister, which is well worth a read. Or a reread. Despite the tragic lack of discussion of socks.

Here then was I (call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please - it is not a matter of any importance) sitting on the banks of a river a week or two ago in fine October weather, lost in thought.

Also also, I feel very strongly that one or more of you should attempt to win The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. You get champagne, a complete edition of Wodehouse, and a pig named after your winning book. What, I ask you, is fame, fortune and literary respectability against the chance to get ratted on extremely snoshy champagne and read Wodehouse while contemplating the naming of an actual pig after your book?

Also also also I am now the proud owner of an alice band with skulls-and-crossbones all over it. I feel this is the precise balance between ladylike restraint and simplicity and bloodstained merciless barrarty on the high seas that I desire in my life. *arrs, in refined tones*

Also also also also someone called me from London (UK, not Comma) to tell me, among other things, that the Canucks were getting pasted.

Also my latest Band Name Idea is "Chicks Don't Like Tull".

What's yours?

the aforementioned alice band

and so to bed, for I am inexplicably weary...