While I nodded, nearly napping,
Suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently trotting,
Trotting ‘cross my chamber floor.
“Thou hast eaten,” I muttered, “I shall not feed you any more”
Quoth the kitty “feed me more”
@sewistwrites That’s not controversial! It was ridiculous! So much needless exposition about the difference in class between Darcy and Elizabeth. Nothing beats the 1995 mini series. Bride and Prejudice is good fun though.
As the wondrous Bob Mortimer is trending, I thought I'd share this quote from his autobiography.
'I've always thought that the two most unselfish things you can do in life are to turn up on time and to be quiet around a house when someone else is sleeping.'
He's not wrong ❤️
@echetus Happened to me 7 years ago. The MET didn’t come out but a genuine angel saw it happen, walked me home and managed to memorise the license plate of one of the bikes, so they were at least able to track it down, find it abandoned and tell me it had been stolen in the first place.
Yes, college students have lost their ability to read. I have taught lit for 24 years; the threshold started to decline in the late aughts and nosedived during Covid. A thread with observations + how I get my students to read ALL (or at least most) of the reading I assign: 🧵