doing stupid

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/1/2009 10:40 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>the older
>"Handsome is as handsome does" (somehow that one sounds as though it
>belongs in the mouth of one of Jane Austen's unsympathetic snippy
>minor female characters),

Does Larry know how fortunate he is that he did not address this to
the "Long Eighteenth Century" email list -- where Jane Austen is the
second most popular subject?  (I leave unsaid the first.)

Joel

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