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Oh the indecision in picking a blog template. I wonder if Vox'll ever let you design your own. But then, there are some terrible attempts at templates out there and I guess Vox has an image they want to keep up.

Just because I want to play with those 'insert an item' buttons up there, I just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice. It wasn't that long ago that I read it, maybe only a year, but I've since read all the other Austen books and had to decide whether I like P&P best, or Mansfield Park. It's a close call, and I think I might even now need to re-read Mansfield Park again to decide. Though it's probably only been 3 months since I  read that one. The P&P story is certainly more interesting and exciting, but I find Mansfield Park much better to reflect upon, and it just touched me more than P&P. It makes me wonder what books will be considered the classics of our current time in two to three hundred years time. So many of the books today that typify the current times are so contemptibly insipid, but maybe that's because we're living in insipid times.