Re: Pride & Prejudice - a spinster's ramblings



On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:59:37 GMT, MCP <gf010w5035@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in soc.men:

http://eternalbachelor.blogspot.com/

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession
of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
- rubbish author Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

Hardly surprising a woman wrote that is it? One who never married and
supposedly died a virgin too.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22jane+austen%22+irony
Results 1 - 100 of about 200,000 for "jane austen" irony.

Perhaps one of those 200,000 Web pages will explain what irony is in
language simple enough for even a socman to understand.


PJR :-)
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