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Thanks to the very generous Megan Perritt, I’m now the owner of this beautiful Jane Austen poster. The gift is aptly timed, as I’ve been having a heated argument today on the greatest Austen novel with a bunch of Knightley-blinded coworkers, who are insisting on Pride and Prejudice. The answer is always Persuasion.
The quote comes from Captain Wentworth’s letter to Anne near the end:
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
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![libraryjournal:
theparisreview:
This weekend, seven hundred members of the Jane Austen Society of North America congregated in Brooklyn for its inaugural meeting, a discussion of sex, money, and power. Anna Quindlen delivered the keynote. Cornel West addressed suffering. And, of course, bonnets were worn. “This is a place where people can let their Jane Austen freak flag fly,” said one attendee. [New York Times]
Holy moly.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbn09wdNBd1qced37o1_1280.jpg "http://52projects.tumblr.com/post/33240137303/libraryjournal-theparisreview-this-weekend")
This weekend, seven hundred members of the Jane Austen Society of North America congregated in Brooklyn for its inaugural meeting, a discussion of sex, money, and power. Anna Quindlen delivered the keynote. Cornel West addressed suffering. And, of course, bonnets were worn. “This is a place where people can let their Jane Austen freak flag fly,” said one attendee. [New York Times]
Holy moly.
