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I have two thrift piles.

If it's a good item, it goes to the special, smaller pile that goes to the thrift store that I know to be a responsible community participant, but which is further away.

Any old tat goes to Goodwill. They can pay their dumpster fees, if they're not going to pay their employees.

Hi freinds.

So the English nobility are hunting trail runners for sport now.

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I'm going to need an immediate update when someone finds this book or short story on the market.

PLEASE and thank you!

Hey y'all, I'm personally not planning to buy anything for Christmas this year.

Home made crap only.

Alternative Christmas gifting ideas-

Small business purchases only Gift baskets of food Pass down things that would turn up in a will later Poems and shit

Other ideas?

Do the terms "trophies" or "ciphers" have anything to do with penmanship?

There's a passage in Jane Austen's "Emma" referring to a riddle book written by a character with excellent penmanship that concludes with...

'...the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies."

This book has so many rabbit-holes of references and action suggested to be taking place in the background of the story, and I strongly suspect ther

Her views of improving her little friend’s mind, by a great deal of useful reading and conversation, had never yet led to more than a few first chapters, and the intention of going on to-morrow. It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet’s fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thinquarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with

Her views of improving her little friend’s mind, by a great deal of useful reading and conversation, had never yet led to more than a few first chapters, and the intention of going on to-morrow. It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet’s fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with

Harriet Smith, as far as I can tell, is Jane Austen's only character who has written a book. Jane's only fellow author. Let me know if you can think of another one!

Harriet's talents also include the very necessary and useful skill of making people like her. 3 months at Abbey Mill Farm create a universal desire among the Martins to keep her as one of the family.

One evening party at Hartfield, and she's immediately invited to start spending all her time there.

Somehow, she wrangles an invitation to the Cole's party, god knows how she accomplished that. Phillip resents her, and the Coles are besties with Phillip. He's a gossip, he might have told his best freind about the Christmas Ev

Every time I read this book, I discover a new twist hidden in plain sight.

The ostensible central mystery of this incredibly complex and very weird book is the secret engagement of Jane and Frank, and all the concurrent and subsequent gossip and speculation that it generates in Highbury.

It only occurred to me today that it ENDS with the secret engagement of Emma and George!

I'm smacking my head. I've read this book dozens of times, because my mind keeps getting blown by all the circular references to the similar behaviors of the characters and how their varying social classes either shield or expose them to or from all that gossip. Here are Emma and George, having JUST created their o

Emma by Jane Austen is a novel about the citizens of Highbury who loathe, fear, and pity the entitled, elitist younger daughter of reclusive shut-in Henry Woodhouse.

Master and Innovatress of Free Indirect Discourse, the story is told by a narrator at a millimeter's remove from Emma's perspective, or briefly and occasionally from another character.

Emma, 21, lonely, isolated, controlling, and abusive narcissist, is introduced in chapter 3 to Harriet Smith, 17, a girl of no known parentage, raised in a girl's institution owned and run by an old friend of Emma's father, the reclusive hypochondriac Henry Woodhouse.

Harriet is immediately invited to spend a lot of time in Hartfield, the h

You're 17. You've been in Highbury for many years. Someone has been paying for your education. Someone has recently upgraded your room, and suddenly, you're invited to come hang out at Hartfield ALL THE TIME, even though the very few people who are ever invited there are either very old freinds or family.

Emma INSISTS that you are a gentleman's daughter, even though there's no evidence of that, and no one else seems to bring it up. Why would she think that?

There are other parlor borders at Mrs Goddard's. Why you? What's special about you? Why is it so important to Emma that you don't marry Robert Martin?

What else is she supposed to assume? She must be Henry's daughter.

I think her

Don't you wish she could read all of Emma to you?

Tanya Reynolds, star of Sex Education and perfectly, hateably and lovably cast as Mrs Elton in the 2020 movie version, narrates the Peguin Classics audiobook.

She does such a great job with it! God, I adore Mrs Augusta Strawberries Hawkins-Elton.