We do this so much I changed her screen name to angevin2 to save

Tyop du jour (du soir?)

commodorified
This week Catherine went to to the Brontë parsonage in Haworth: "You can still see the original visitor centre where the doomed sisters would stay up all night, baking biscuits." And read, accordingly, Wuthering Heights: "Its extraordinary depravities somehow escaped me at the age of 14. One puts it down full of gratitude for the modern social services.

angevin2
*snerk*

commodorified:
I continue to insist that Jayne Eyre is about HOW MUCH BEING AN ORPHANED GOVERNESS SUCKS
also Jayne Eyre is a hideous thought

angevin2
OH DEAR LORD
my brain actually just sort of refuses to pursue that


commodorified:
Jayne/Mr Rochester

angevin2
*brain explodes*

Because I am always wanting this quote and having trouble finding it again

Everybody says Canada is a hard country to govern, but nobody mentions that for some people it is also a hard country to live in. Still, if we all run away it will never be any better. So let the geniuses of easy virtue go southward; I know what they feel too well to blame them. But for some of us there is no choice; let Canada do what she will with us, we must stay.

Robertson Davies
Fortune my Foe

ETA one two more:

We are an ironic people; irony and some sourness is mixed in our nature. It is a matter of climate. We are a northern people.

On Canadians, in "Conversations".

"Can you tell me the time of the last complete show?"

"You have the wrong number."

"Eh? Isn't this the Odeon?"

I decide to give a Burtonian answer.

"No, this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night."

The Cunning Man

Ian is clearing out bookshelves

... and among other weird, whacky and wonderful things, has just found this in one of my religion textbooks: