D-Day June 6, 1944

 

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Jane Austen's defence to accusations of triviality of the novel:

"...there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit and taste to recommend them.  'I am no novel reader...I seldom look into novels...Do not imagine that I often read novels...It is very well for a novel...'  Such is the common cant.  'And what are you reading, Miss --?' 'Oh, it is only a novel!' replies the young lady while she lays down her book with affected indifference or momentary shame.  'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda'; or, in short, only some work in which the
greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language."

~ Jane Austen, English novelist (1775 - 1817) in  Northanger Abbey [Posthumously Published in 1818]. 

Meeting Train/ Hearse & Team/ Burial

Early Cayuga Businesses

Memorial Cards Printing / The Haldimand Advocate 1920

 

[Collection J.E.Walker]

Welcome to Early Cayuga ~

[Tomorrow:  & more...Collection J.E.Walker, grandson of Mrs. J.Hinds]

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Earth has not anything to show more fair ~

Earth has not anything to show more fair;

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in its majesty"

This city now doth, like a garment, wear

The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,

Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie

Open unto fields, and to the sky;

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

 

~ Wm. Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 1807.

 

 



Thought for Today ~

"People will forget what you said,  they will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Anglou (april 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014) American author, poet, human rights activist.

Smile for Today ~

"If I Only had a Brain" ~

"Act your age, not your shoe size!"
                      Kate Flax (Christina Ricci) to her older sister Charlotte (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990).

"The only difference between genius and stupidity, my boy, is that genius has its limits."
                      Zeno (Turhan Bey) to Sammy Curtis (Trenton Knight) in  The Skateboard Kid II (1994).

"You couldn't find big time if you had a road map."
                           Fast Eddy Felson (Paul Newman) to Vincent (Tom Cruise) in The Color of Money (1986).

"That boy is so smart he'd dry snow and sell it for sugar."
                Honey Wiggin (Eugene Pallette) about The Virginian (1929) (Gary Cooper).

"I don't look as dumb as I am."
                             Ned Ravine (Armand Assante) to Lola Cain (Sean Young) in Fatal Instinct (1993).

"Do you remember how dumb I used to be?  Well, I'm better now."
                             Laurel & Hardy Block-Heads (1938)

~ VideoHound's MOVIE LaughLines, Quips, Quotes, and Clever Comebacks.
Visible Ink Press, 1996