"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others, so bewildered and so weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!-We are to be sure a miracle every way-but our powers of recollecting and forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out."
taken from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
2 comments:
I don't have anything profound to add Amy but I am reading and enjoying your blog. Perhaps it is due to the lateness of the hour, or because my brain is simply in bed before my body, but I do enjoy reading things, even if I have no will to comment upon them. Hug to you.
Amy, do you know what I love about reading Austen with you? You bring up points that I miss, even after many readings. :)
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