Strawberry Cream Pie Day
2005-09-28 @ 3:36 p.m.

Rats. Nice pseudo-holiday period coming to an end, and I haven't done anything useful. Unless you consider finishing Under The Greenwood Tree a productive use of time, which it might be, depending on your inclination. Anyway, I take back unreservedly anything disparaging I said about that novel, if only because the character of Fancy Day is most intriguing and the novel takes an amusing turn in the middle. Fancy is, to put it mildly, a regular coquette. (Then again, how many women aren't to some extent?) I'm reading Far From The Madding Crowd next, so working my way through Hardy has proven to be more successful than my attempt to read all of Eliot's works. I've lost interest in those as it is, especially after my abortive attempt at Middlemarch. The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob were nice though. The former was just weird, while the latter anticipates Silas Marner. Labor me vocat, as one of the sentences in my Wheelock exercise reads. Ciao.