A Tangled Web

A Tangled Web http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/ "Friends! Friends! Henry [James] was always making new ones. They looped around each other like needlework stitches and he felt himself to be at the centre of an ever-expanding tapestry of relationships the maintenance of which, either by social contact or correspondence, absorbed a frightening amount of his time. But he depended on friends for human interest and input, for the stimulus of other minds, for the occasional anecdote that might be the 'germ' of a new piece of fiction, and, in his bachelor state, as an antidote to human loneliness." - David Lodge, Author, Author</> Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:41:16 -0000 Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:33:00 -0000 A Tangled Web http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/logo http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com 100 100 Afterbirth If yesterday's any indication of the coming year, I'm in for a wild ride to 33. At which point I can be crucified. Thanks to the well-wishers by category here: (Pasensiya na sa obscure references.) By text: <ul style="font-family: courier new,courier;color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><li>Ate Marcy, one of my cousins. She'll probably not read this unless she starts getting online more often. </li><li>Jovan, who technically greeted first at 12:03 AM. </li><li>Karlos "Spooky" de Mesa, of Driver Down and Biscochong Halimaw, who will be playing this Saturday. </li><li>"Zig Pogi" (it says that on my phone at his insistence).</li><li>Marco Harder!</li><li>Jac Lim, whom I still owe cab fare and a glomp back. >.></li><li>My blockmate Elena Bautista.</li><li>Selena and Kathy, who texted virtually at the same time. "Magkasama kayo, no?" I asked, and apparently they weren't together. Dun-dun-dun!</li><li>Mika Fabella, my Swanling. ;)</li><li>Tita Marian, Rej's mom.</li><li>Eileen Ang, who should get back to blogging. </li><li>My blockmate Alex Villafania, who's probably interviewed some of you guys for his Inquirer tech and hobby articles.</li><li>Lianne, whom I met only once (courte... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/80/Afterbirth Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:33:00 -0000 The Big Read Book Meme Nicked from <a href="http://wheresmycow.multiply.com/journal/item/1154/Adherent_of_the_Repeated_Meme">Mary Ann</a>. <a href="http://www.neabigread.org/">The Big Read</a> reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;) Disclaimer: It's the Great White Canon, I'm afraid. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (<a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/42/Delayed_Reaction">Read twice within three or four months</a>?) 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I really should, shouldn't I?) 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (If only to get the references in other works, like The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde.) 4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Only until The Order of the Phoenix. I'll finish the series eventually. Just don't feel compelled to read it now.) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6. The Bible - Most of it, at least. Back in school, I had to memorize a verse each day and a chapter each month... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/78/The_Big_Read_Book_Meme Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:53:00 -0000 The Quilt and Film Movement, Diliman-London 2003 <img class="alignleft" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGJ8SQoKCtkAAGPjDF01/hardin-ng-diwata-2.jpg?et=fTTHmumP28LQ7xXcWpgGOQ&nmid=0" border="0">The first of the weird theater dreams. The day after Writers' Night in 2003, I went back to UP on some business or other. As usual, I was coming from the UP Quill tambayan (Talulah Craft to the uninitiated) and had to go somewhere inside the Faculty Center. This involved the usual walk up the stairs and walkway that follows the FC's façade, which we called the Confessional. This walk gives one a peek through some windows into some of the faculty offices that line those academic halls. One professor had left his (or her) windows open, giving me a view of a figure with long hair, with a shawl wrapped around its shoulders as it looked into some frosted mirror. I was in a hurry, and as always, I climbed, Batman-style, into the hallway linking Gallerias I and II. This maneuver always saved me a round trip to the door facing AS. <img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGJ8ugoKCtkAAGQWE1U1/Faculty%20Center%20Galleria%20I.jpg?et=lftv5H122Xiw%2B1iQ7GqhpA&nmid=0" border="0"> Once inside, I was suddenly naked and aware that a play, staged in the nearby Teatro Hermogenes Ylagan, was just about to end. Not wanting to be exposed, I rushed thr... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/77/The_Quilt_and_Film_Movement_Diliman-London_2003 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:42:00 -0000 Puno ng Palos ang aking Hoberkrap Or, "My hovercraft is full of eels," a statement sometimes used to refer to bad translations. Again from the Monty Python troupe. Happy birthday, <a href="http://theslob.multiply.com/">Jooniper Berry Guillen, Jr.</a> http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/video/item/36/Puno_ng_Palos_ang_aking_Hoberkrap Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:44:44 -0000 The French Noodle Festival, UP Diliman <img class="alignleft" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGBTrwoKCtkAADUWbwk1/Bahay%20ng%20Alumni.jpg?et=cpuvW3niQrXA2uuom8rDMA&nmid=0" border="0">I was a freshman in UP, waiting for a friend to get done with his studying for the day so I could go with him to meet his mother. He said he would be done by 1:00 AM. His boarding house was was placed where the UP Cooperative is now and was run by my ninang. She was too busy to talk or even pay attention to me, so I alternated between sitting in the cramped living room and going back and forth into the rooms, passing my friends equally uncommunicative boarding-house mates. At half past midnight, I noticed that my friend had fallen asleep on his bed with a plate of food on his lap, and everyone at the boarding house looked like they wanted me out of there. So I went out and looked for the jeep that would take me through Sta. Ana--the geography had changed sightly and shifted Diliman closer to Manila. There weren't any jeeps, so I tried passing through the Shopping Center. The people there were closing it up for the night, with chains and padlocks around the door handles and signs pro... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/76/The_French_Noodle_Festival_UP_Diliman Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:26:00 -0000 Wondering <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SF-WUgoKCtkAAEKZ6Lw1"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SF-WUgoKCtkAAEKZ6Lw1/The%20Book%20of%20the%20Courtier.jpg?et=evUxgCJcG2Si31JjHqmDzg&nmid=0" border="0"></a>Am I doing my best, or <a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Sprezzatura">trying too hard</a>? * * * I should get a copy of this book one of these days. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/75/Wondering Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:53:00 -0000 Cole Porter - You're the Top Apparently, last week was Cole Porter's birthday. So to commemorate that day, here's one of his gay and lively tunes, and lyrics, too! At words poetic, I'm so pathetic That I always have found it best, Instead of getting 'em off my chest, To let 'em rest unexpressed, I hate parading my serenading As I'll probably miss a bar, But if this ditty is not so pretty At least it'll tell you How great you are. You're the top! You're the Coliseum. You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum. You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss You're a Bendel bonnet, A Shakespeare sonnet, You're Mickey Mouse. You're the Nile, You're the Tower of Pisa, You're the smile on the Mona Lisa I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop, But if baby, I'm the bottom You're the top! You're the top! You're Mahatma Gandhi. You're the top! You're Napoleon Brandy. You're the purple light Of a summer night in Spain, You're the National Gallery You're Garbo's salary, You're cellophane... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/music/item/78/Cole_Porter_-_Youre_the_Top Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:31:35 -0000 On my Shelf Since Ron's going to spend the night here tonight, I decided to ready the extra-strong harness and the studded paddles he likes so much. I also made sure to give my room a good cleaning, since we're going to get dirty later on. Seriously, though. :-P Ron's allergic to cat hair, and the felines have been spending a lot of time in my room lately. I figured anaphylactic shock wouldn't really work for Ron. Bleh, taking mind out of gutter now. Better to put it on the shelf, with all the books there. Mine, borrowed, given, forgotten at the house, read, unread, what have you. And I'm too lazy to use Shelfari or LibraryThing as yet. <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SFOoEwoKCtkAAFTvsJ41"><img class="alignright" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SFOoEwoKCtkAAFTvsJ41/Image003.jpg?et=IAxseg%2B1JGjBoJ1ehK8D9w&nmid=0" border="0"></a>Here, on top of my White Wolf gaming books, are my Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Book of Lists which the housemates gave me for Christmas, Nigella Lawson's cookbook Forever Summer (the show of which I've seen several times over), Reitch's Austen compilation, and Jon's Into the Wild. To the left is a copy of The Last Tycoon, from one of my English professors, who gave... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/72/On_my_Shelf Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:07:00 -0000 Elephant versus Mouse "Of all other living creatures, [elephants] cannot abide a mouse or a rat," observed Pliny the Elder in Book 8 of his Historia naturalis. Experimentation with video evidence was conducted centuries later by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/video/item/35/Elephant_versus_Mouse Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:59:33 -0000 "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner I first encountered this text 13 years ago, in Comm I with J. Neil Garcia. Later that same year, I went to a small temple, clearly inspired by Nacirema beliefs, to have my mouth examined. The pain inflicted on me by the holy mouth-woman there confirmed that she was fully versed in Nacirema rituals. I was talking to Macy about it last week, and she found this link to the Miner paper. For everyone's http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/links/item/5/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirema_by_Horace_Miner Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:43 -0000 The Worst Day in June Came down with diarrhea Tuesday night. Not sure if it was <a href="http://rejjventress.multiply.com/photos/album/178/Lunch_at_Wai_Ying">the Monday's Chinese lunch</a>, Monday's Japanese dinner, or Tuesday's longganiza lunch. No one else who had the same food has the same signs and symptoms, so not sure what the cause is. Had headaches and intestinal grumblings. Finished off <a href="http://quinnzap.multiply.com/">Dante</a>'s Coke stash, topped it off with loperamide, and went to bed achy all over. Woke up with headache Wednesday morning. Head throbs when sitting up, standing up, sitting down, lying down, and coughing. Feels like 1/4 of a flu: no fever, cold, or severe chills, but have achy joints and head. Had to endure pain as do not like taking painkillers. Tummy was behaving by this time, though. Had to cancel first session of pilot training program for basic English with a client, though. Tried to nap in the afternoon. Woke up with wind blowing rain in east-to-west direction, i.e. right into the fucking bedroom windows, which are leaky. A rare occurrence; last time was during the Milenyo storm in '06. Had... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/71/The_Worst_Day_in_June Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:30:00 -0000 I once dreamt I was shot in the head ... ... but I was saved by my dandruff helmet. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/70/I_once_dreamt_I_was_shot_in_the_head_... Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:26:00 -0000 Designing Woman - Trailer (1957) Saw this again for the nth time today, and it still cracks me up. I was looking for other clips of the movie to show here, but it seems only the trailer's been uploaded. Anyway, whoever cut this trailer picked the bits I wanted to show. Synopsis from Turner Classic Movies: "On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other. Also Mike feels depressed because Marilla's very successful in her job. So he investigates for a risky story to prove to himself what he's worth." http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/video/item/34/Designing_Woman_-_Trailer_1957 Sun, 8 Jun 2008 02:30:17 -0000 Brunch with Ava and Ian, Take 2 <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SEpUqAoKCtkAAFdMFco1"></a><a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SEpUxwoKCtkAAFqHMZs1"></a><a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SEpUqAoKCtkAAFdMFco1"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SEpUqAoKCtkAAFdMFco1/Image011.jpg?et=WXUs9nyAhEaKgutzgTNx0g&nmid=0" border="0"></a>Originally, it was supposed to be dinner at Makati last week, but stuff happened and we had to postpone. We had more success today with a <a href="http://www.thechocolatekiss.com/index.html">Chocolate Kiss</a> brunch, followed by a walk and coffee at the <a href="http://www.vargasmuseum.org/">Vargas Museum</a>. Yay for catching up. We saw a bit of creative vandalism just outside the museum, which led to the following bit of fun, courtesy of Ian's phone camera: <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SEpUqAoKCtkAAFdMFco1"></a><a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SEpUxwoKCtkAAFqHMZs1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SEpUxwoKCtkAAFqHMZs1/Image%28682%29.jpg?et=4b7Jhn2Gk1mW1wet74VUUw&nmid=0" border="0"></a> http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/69/Brunch_with_Ava_and_Ian_Take_2 Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:20:00 -0000 Danger <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SFKNgQoKCtkAAF@kcog1"><img class="alignright" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SFKNgQoKCtkAAF@kcog1/Mating%20Snakes%2001.jpg?et=sbaJDUAnXE3DIr1DJIgWIg&nmid=0" border="0"></a>"What is it? My dear?" "Ah, how can we bear it?" "Bear what?" "This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?" "We can be quiet together, and pretend -- since it is only the beginning -- that we have all the time in the world." "And every day we shall have less. And then none." "Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?" "No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the midpoint, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere." "Poetic, but not comfortable doctrine." "You know, as I know, that poetry is not comfortable, however. Let me hold you, this is our night, and only the first, and therefore the nearest infinite... You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere." * * * Still reading Possession. An affair by which all others will be measured. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/68/Danger Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:06:00 -0000 Unbelievable I'd never gotten anything higher than 134 in other online tests, leading to serious doubts as to how I got into UP in the first place. And now this. Of course, I also didn't know what I scored in the IQ section of the UPCAT. Anyway, since it's shockingly high, I'll post it. Baka may maniwala.<a title="Free IQ Test" href="http://www.free-iqtest.net/"><img alt="Free IQ Test" src="http://www.free-iqtest.net/images/badges2/l156.gif" border="0" height="100" width="200"></a> Free-IQTest.net - <a title="Free IQ Test" href="http://www.free-iqtest.net/">Free IQ Test</a><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; " src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/bT*xJmx*PTEyMTI2MzM2MDg*MDYmcHQ9MTIxMjYzMzcwMjIwMyZwPTEwOTE5MSZkPUZJUSZuPSZnPTE=.jpg" border="0" height="0" width="0"> http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/67/Unbelievable Thu, 5 Jun 2008 05:14:00 -0000 The Flight of the Montgolfiers <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SEa5PwoKCtkAAH7fo5I1"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SEa5PwoKCtkAAH7fo5I1/Montgolfier.jpg?et=QzGWFxzwZaG%2Buk5BTsHgaQ&nmid=0" border="0"></a>While it's still June 4th: On this day, in 1783, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers">Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier</a>, the sons of a paper-manufacturing family in France, flew the first hot-air balloon in the world. The contraption flew the length of 1.2 miles and had an estimated altitude of 5,200 to 6,600 feet. Months later, they repeated this experiment for the benefit of Louis XVI of France, this time with a sheep, a duck, and a rooster. The Mongolfier brothers are two of the first inventors I'd learned of. I loved reading about flight as a kid, and images of those first inventions reflected the wonder I felt--and probably what the inventors themselves felt, too. The image of rejects from the cast of the Musicians of Bremen taking to the sky in a contraption of blue taffeta for the benefit of a bewigged king may look comic now--something out of a <a href="http://www.terrygilliam.com/">Terry Gilliam</a> animation--but back then, what kind of awe and wonder did it inspire? Source: Wikipedia http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/66/The_Flight_of_the_Montgolfiers Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:24:00 -0000 Running Away by Ang Tunay na Amo Before leaving to pay the electric bill, I changed my status message to "Running away from some errands", in homage to "I ran into some errands" from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tahananbooks.com/index2.html">Tahanan Books'</a> The More the Manyer. So off I went and returned to my PC to see an offline message from Joon: "I'm running away/ From the places/ And things that make me think of you/ But I guess there's just no letting go/ Of this feeling I hate inside...". It sent me back to my freshman year in high school, when the first came out. So here it is, complete with synthesizers and soft chanting and lyrics in case you've forgotten them. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/video/item/33/Running_Away_by_Ang_Tunay_na_Amo Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:36:39 -0000 Love among Poets <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SEOVUgoKCtkAAGqVNrM1"><img class="alignright" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SEOVUgoKCtkAAGqVNrM1/possession.jpg?et=eEo0dS6MDIdNusmelP4bwg&nmid=0" border="0"></a>"I have dreamed nightly of your face and walked the streets of my daily life with the rhythms of your writing singing in my silent brain. I have called you my Muse, and so you are, or might be, a messenger from some urgent place of the spirit where essential poetry sings and sings. I could call you, with even greater truth -- my Love -- there, it is said -- for I most certainly love you and in all ways possible to man and most fiercely. It is a love for which there is no place in this world -- a love my diminished reason tells me can and will do neither of us any good, a love I tried to hide cunningly from, to protect you from, with all the ingenuity at my command. (Except complete silence, you will rightly say, which was out of my power.) ... "... What do I ask? you will enquire in your precise and yet mocking way -- cutting down my protestations to precise proposals. I do not know -- how can I know? I only cast myself upon your mercy, not to be cut off, not scanted with a single fami... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/65/Love_among_Poets Mon, 2 Jun 2008 05:37:00 -0000 Steam <img class="alignleft" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SD2rtwoKCtkAADiIYfk1/yoga_exercises_1.jpg?et=Hg6GL6HdrP6T1pkMLe6DNA&nmid=0" border="0">Despite my best efforts, my yoga mat almost always gets slippery with sweat within the first 20 minutes of our sessions. I wipe my sweaty hands and forearms on my shorts, hastily pass the sleeve of my t-shirt across my forhead, change where I place my hands on the mat so the perspiration from my elbows doesn't roll down my arms whenever I plant my palms flat on the rubbery surface, but all of this is to no avail. It drips down my chin and through the goatee if I'm face down on the mat, regardless of whether I'm lying on my chest or holding the floor away with my arms, and it soaks through my shirt if I lie on my back. Standing with my palms clasped in prayer only lets it drip down from my elbows, as if they were leaky gutters in a light summer shower. My mat has to be sticky for me to do the poses properly, since I have to focus on them rather than on trying not to slip one way or another. But that's not to be. Maybe the real challenge is in finding one's balance even when one's own bo... http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/64/Steam Wed, 28 May 2008 18:36:00 -0000 Fill in the Blanks <a href="http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SDpePgoKCtkAAF8jRoU1"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.tungkunglangit.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SDpePgoKCtkAAF8jRoU1/mother-in-laws%20tongue%2001.JPG?et=fHEVMHVOVXVIa4qcUALIRA&nmid=0" border="0"></a>"That's not how you do it!" his mother-in-law scolded, interposing herself between him and his new bride. "Here, let me show you how to do it."   * * * Based on a conversation at Roseroland in Parañaque on Saturday, May 24, 2008. Picture depicts Sansevieria trifasciata, also known as the snake plant, or by its more popular common name, mother-in-law's tongue. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/63/Fill_in_the_Blanks Mon, 26 May 2008 06:51:00 -0000 Synesthesia Test Grabbed from Avavoo.<a style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 35px; BACKGROUND: url(http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/bb_badges/synesthesia.jpg) no-repeat; WIDTH: 318px; COLOR: #fff; PADDING-TOP: 126px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; HEIGHT: 114px; TEXT-ALIGN: center; TEXT-DECORATION: none; " href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/synesthesia">73%</a> Strange wording, "wired for creativity". Biglang nagkaroon ng expectations. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/62/Synesthesia_Test Wed, 21 May 2008 14:33:00 -0000 Snakes in Woodcut--the Animated Version Created by Cristóbal Vila of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/snakes_htm/snakes_movie_index.htm">Eterea Studios</a>. Based on Snakes, by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mcescher.com/">M.C. Escher</a>, which he created in 1969. Found this while browsing for pictures of snakes a couple of years http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/video/item/32/Snakes_in_Woodcut--the_Animated_Version Wed, 21 May 2008 01:32:37 -0000 Perfect Strangers - The Dance of Joy As promised. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/video/item/31/Perfect_Strangers_-_The_Dance_of_Joy Mon, 12 May 2008 08:49:46 -0000 Larry and Balki Every Saturday night, after ALF, back in the day. Oh, the guy singing the theme? I found out last night that it's David http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/video/item/30/Larry_and_Balki Fri, 9 May 2008 06:54:43 -0000 Gentleman, 1816; Something Else Entirely, 2008 "'But Mr. Knightley does not want to marry. I am sure he has not the least idea of it. Do not put it into his head. Why should he marry? He is as happy as possible by himself; with his farm, and his sheep, and his library, and all the parish to manage; and he is extremely fond of his brother's children. He has no occasion to marry, either to fill up his time or his heart.'" * * * Jane Austen + Blackadder = Naughty Thoughts Must read someone else now. http://tungkunglangit.multiply.com/journal/item/61/Gentleman_1816_Something_Else_Entirely_2008 Tue, 6 May 2008 13:30:00 -0000