doing stupid

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:57 AM -0400 7/1/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>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
>
Why fortunate?  She specialized in such characters, along with
equally unsympathetic and oblivious but usually more overbearing
minor male characters, than whom the sympathetic female and male
characters are far superior morally, intellectually, and in every
other way (except sometimes in the purse).

LH

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