In a message dated 7/26/2007 4:13:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Enjoyed your POV until you picked on Jane Austin. It is possible to enjoy her AND Mark Twain. Arianne Laidlaw Many things are possible; fewer are probable. Enjoying them both would be akin to delighting in both good & evil in Eden--the last time it occurred there was Hell to pay...DHF "Every time I read _Pride and Prejudice_ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shinbone." --quoted in Harper's Monthly article "She makes me detest all her people, without reserve." --undated "Jane Austen" fragment. "Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." _Following the Equator__