Humiliation relived

From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope:

Who does not know that sudden thoughtfulness at waking, that first matutinal retrospection, and pro-spection, into things as they have been and are to be; and the lowness of heart, the blankness of hope which follows the first remembrance of some folly lately done, some word ill-spoken, some money misspent, – or perhaps a cigar too much, or a glass of brandy and soda-water which he should have left untasted?

 

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  1. You quoted Trollope! You quoted Trollope! From one of my favorites of his. In my mind, he persists for some of us because of these classic and immutable observations on human nature. I’ve so often marked something in one of his novels that I think I’ll blog because it’s still true 150 years later…politics, human relationships.

  2. One of my favorites of his is part of the Palliser series, Can You Forgive Her? In general not even remotely feminist except for the character Kate, a literary Odd Woman in the classic style. It’s a tremendous book.

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