Jane Eyre, Vol II ch 4
At the end of this chapter, Jane reveals her spiritual state: “My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the
At the end of this chapter, Jane reveals her spiritual state: “My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the
The next one I ran across was a recipe for English Tea cake on page 234-5. Not a huge fan of tea, but I like
One of the supplemental materials is a copy of the letter from John Eyre, informing Mrs. Reed of his intention to adopt Jane and leave
I’ve just finished the first ‘volume’ of Jane Eyre, meaning I’m about half-way through. I’m also watching the 2007 TV version in four episodes with
I’m reading essentially 33 pages every day, enough to get me through in 12 days. This is relatively slow for me, but I’m taking the
Chapter 9: while Helen is laid up sick, Jane makes friends with “one Mary Ann Wilson; a shrewd, observant personage, whose society I took pleasure
I should add here that I think Jane is actually right in her assessment, which might sound like I disagree with Helen, and by extension
In Chapter 6 of Jane Eyre, Jane has an exchange with Helen Burns. After seeing Helen cruelly chastised for minor issues, Jane speaks with her: “You
I recently bought a hardback version of Jane Eyre, with illustrations by Marjolein Bastin. It looked really pretty, so I decided to add it to
I bought a new Jane Eyre edition this year because it looked cool. But I was surprised by the additional elements included in it: various
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.