Wednesday, October 06, 2010

"Pursuit of Love" — first reaction

Did you like it? Did you laugh?
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4 comments:

Erin said...

I loved it! It was super funny and sassy. I marked a ton of passages that I found especially witty and awesome. I'll add some of them when I have my book in front of me.

11:06 AM, October 07, 2010
cl said...

Yes, it was sort of a rollicking good time. Like life was one, big, fun farce. I liked the meetings of the Hons, battles against the Counter-Hons and sort of that immaturity spilling over to Linda's adult outlook (such as that her daughter, Moira, could be a Counter-Hon.) I found what I guess you'd call the social errors very endearing -- Aunt Sadie only inviting old men to her oldest daughter's first ball, or Franny and Linda improvising with cosmetics for their London adventure. I will find some passages, too.

10:56 AM, October 20, 2010
kc said...

I loved this. When aristocratic Linda, horrible at cooking and domestic activities, tries her hand at cleaning house (presumably to fit in better with her communist husband's world views). The oven makes her want to gas herself, and the Hoover makes her shriek.

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

2:01 PM, October 20, 2010
Erin said...

I had marked that one, too! Here's a couple of other funny ones:

On pregnancy:

"I am in pig, what d'you think of that?"

"A most hideous expression, Linda dear," said Aunt Emily, "but I suppose we must congratulate you."

"I suppose so," said Linda. She sank into a chair with an enormous sigh. "I feel awfully ill, I must say."

"But think how much good it will do you in the long run," said Davey, enviously, "such a wonderful clearout."

On Communism:

"You know, being a Conservative is much more restful," Linda said to me once in a moment of confidence, when she was being unusually frank about her life, "though one must remember that it is bad, not good. But it does take place within certain hours, and then finish, whereas Communism seems to eat up all one's life and energy."

8:26 PM, October 20, 2010

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