Thursday, 14 October 2010

Great Writing: Willa Cather - Song of the Lark #2

"Scarcely anything was attractive to her in its natural state - indeed, scarcely anything was decent until it was clothed by the opinion of some authority. Her ideas about habit, character, duty, love, marriage, were grouped under heads, like a book of popular quotations, and were totally unrelated to the emergencies of human living."

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"The wall-paper was brownish yellow, with blue flowers. When it was put on, the carpet, certainly, had not been consulted."

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