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21 January, 2011

What Jane Austen really meant...

My friend in the UK posted a lovely picture of her English countryside and quoted Jane Austen's famous line,

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

I mentioned how funny that line is when you see NO mountains there -- not in her picture, nor in most of England -- especially compared to my own towering Rockies. (Yep, that's right. I've just claimed them as my own.)

So she changed it to,

"What are men to fields and trees and mud and sunshine?"

Well, when you put it that way...

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