-=>While in the White Hart, Dorothy Reynolds explained to Fred Runk that<=-
 DR> Work does have a way of interfering with pleasure, doesn't it, but
 DR> I'm glad to see you're still teaching.
 
 FR> So are my creditors and the mortgage company.  
 DR> 
 DR> Work is the curse of the drinking class. (g) 
And the curse of the reading class.
 DR> Loved the Hobbit series. 
 DR> What a mind Tolkien had!
 
 FR> Yep, one of a kind.  I'm starting THE LORD OF THE RINGS now.
 DR> 
 DR> Let me know if you like it.
This is as least my tenth time through, so I guess I could say that I like
it.
The WOMAN IN WHITE is proceeding slowly and thoughtfully.  Really getting
involved in that 19th century milieu--that of the middle classes so common
to the English 19th century novel, and I guess of most European 19th century
novels, although there are exceptions of course.
There's a hint of madness here--perhaps unknown parentage and therefore
an inheritance at stake, an upcoming loveless and unhappy (we know it will
be--couldn't be any other way) marriage, star-crossed lovers, class
differences, poverty, wasted inheritances---ah for the simple, uncomplicated 
life of
the 19th century.  
... One family builds a wall...two families enjoy it. Old Chinese Proverb
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