E. M. Forster is really amusing
E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is such a pleasureable read. He says the most amusing things. For example, here he is talking about a character of Jane Austin's:
What is Lady Bertram's reaction [to her daughters being a bit slutish]? The sentence describing it is significant: "Lady Bertram did not think deeply, but, guided by Sir Thomas, she thought justly on all important points, and she saw therefore in all its enormity, what had happened, and neither endeavoured herself, nor required Fanny to advise her, to think little of guilt and infamy." These are stong words, and they used to worry me because I thought Jane Austen's moral sense was getting out of hand.
Stong words indeed! I think that the idea of anyone becoming genuinely worried about whether Jane Austen's moral sense was getting out of hand is simply one of the most amusing things I have ever heard.
What is Lady Bertram's reaction [to her daughters being a bit slutish]? The sentence describing it is significant: "Lady Bertram did not think deeply, but, guided by Sir Thomas, she thought justly on all important points, and she saw therefore in all its enormity, what had happened, and neither endeavoured herself, nor required Fanny to advise her, to think little of guilt and infamy." These are stong words, and they used to worry me because I thought Jane Austen's moral sense was getting out of hand.
Stong words indeed! I think that the idea of anyone becoming genuinely worried about whether Jane Austen's moral sense was getting out of hand is simply one of the most amusing things I have ever heard.
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