jane austen is timeless because the line “i’m 27 years old, i’ve no money and no prospects. i’m already a burden to my parents and i’m frightened” is as relevant today as when she published pride and prejudice in 1813 😭
Struggling to watch the news at the moment the world is so awful - I just want to turn it off.
Yet when I feel like that I imagine what petrified civilians in Ukraine must feel like and for them its not hearing the news, its hearing and feeling the bombs.
So I try to keep it on
“Nobody told me it was against the rules” is a pretty weird thing for a man who was on telly literally every night for an hour telling people what the rules were.