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[taimatsu]

No word from dentist - will call tomorrow.

I am currently tormented not only by the toothache but by my inability to remember a quotation about Jane Austen; it's about the limitations of her novels (no exotic locations, dashing soldiers the most exotic characters and those not in action, love barely beyond the temperature of liking, most startling incidents are falls and imprudent marriages - and still considered among the greatest novels in her language not just of her period but of any period). I can't remember enough of the exact wording to find it! Anyone?

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Trollope writes: "Miss Austen was surely a great novelist. What she did, she did perfectly. Her work, as far as it goes, is faultless. She wrote of the times in which she lived, of the class of people with which she associated, and in the language which was usual to her as an educated lady. Of romance, -- what we generally mean when we speak of romance -- she had no tinge. Heroes and heroines with wonderful adventures there are none in her novels. Of great criminals and hidden crimes she tells us nothing. But she places us in a circle of gentlemen and ladies, and charms us while she tells us with an unconscious accuracy how men should act to women, and women act to men. It is not that her people are all good; -- and, certainly, they are not all wise. The faults of some are the anvils on which the virtues of others are hammered till they are bright as steel. In the comedy of folly I know no novelist who has beaten her. The letters of Mr. Collins, a clergyman in Pride and Prejudice, would move laughter in a low-church archbishop."

Is that the one? If so, I found it on this page on Jane Austen's limitations (http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeart.html#austart2), though unfortunately that doesn't give a full citation for the quote. If that's not the one, there may be some other useful stuff on that page anyway...

HTH!

[taimatsu]

It's not the one, but it's interesting anyway :)

[ifimust.livejournal.com]

Ok here is a very short term solution to the tooth pain. On the side of the face where the pain is, place your finger just in front of the bit of the ear at the front that sticks out (I'm sure it's called the maxiliofrontal something or other - but you know the bit I mean?). Just a bit lower and in front of that, if you press, you will find a hollow - experiment till you do.

Pressing in the right place will remove the pain - for only a second or so, but it will work and will continue to work when you do it again.

Secondly - find a clove. If you can stand it, put the clove in your mouth near the tooth - natural analgesic. Clove oil will work as well, I gather, but I've never tried that.

Good luck!

[taimatsu]

The pressing-in-front-of-the-ear thing does indeed work, which is very useful and will be particularly handy if I do anything stupid like chewing meat.

I am mainlining co-codamol and so the pain is not nearly as bad as it has been, so overall I'm pretty comfortable :)

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

George Eliot said something about her being a most complete and sensible lady but a very incomplete and insensible woman.