an ingenious design which persuades a curve into a plane

So I'm searching through databases for articles on Eavan Boland, and what do I find but one by my Irish Lit professor at Kenyon, on the VERY SAME TOPIC as my thesis! (Well, actually, I'm sort of writing on the reverse side of the coin as her article; from what I've skimmed so far, the article deals with deconstruction, and I'm dealing with construction. Of a sort, anyway. I promise that sentence made sense in my head.)

AWESOME.

(Must e-mail her. Must, must, must.)

Other awesome things include Pamela, which is cracking me up. It's like a farce of the typical Gothic novel, but before the Gothic novel was even invented! Pamela is an idiot, but a hilarious and even sympathetic one.

I'm about halfway through now. I assume Pamela and her master are going to get married at some point, given the anvils Richardson's been dropping about Pamela still finding him attractive even after he's kidnapped her and attempted to seduce her umpteen times, and the part where the master is dropping the "m" word with increasing frequency...