Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Too Many Old Books
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p. 284 (William Russ, gravedigger, speaking):
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Well, of course, as everybody knows, all that family, particularly the daughters, were over-educated. They were old maids. They weren't cranky because they hadn't had a man but because they'd had too many old books. Their brains were strained.
