Les Jeux Sont Fait
Apparently I've been divorced since March 16, but wasn't aware of it until I opened yesterday's mail.
RULES FOR YOUNG LADIES: Some arch advice on snagging a husband. Exercising the mouth into a pretty shape through repetition of certain words seems to have been an indoor sport for young nineteenth-century girls; in Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens' overly bred girl repeats, "papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism." (Merrycoz.org)
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Off-topic: Is there an RSS feed for your site?
You know, there isn't -- I'm so techno-challenged that it took a village just to get my blogroll up. I know other Blogger users can track their hits in a pretty detailed way, which interests me, but then learned helplessness sets in.
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