Huh. Emma is actually the one major Austen I haven't read. I'm gonna fix that someday... But yay for feeling the Austen love! Well, like. I am proud of you.
And it can be a very, very long time before I read about everyone being concerned about catching cold from a draft in a hallway where they will spend all of five seconds walking from one end to the other, oh my GOD, people, you are all a bunch of raving HYPOCHONDRIACS
Heh. Though admittedly, germ theory was hopeless at the time, and people occasionally did die from colds then, so they had a little justification. (Says the raving hypochondriac...)
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:40 pm (UTC)And it can be a very, very long time before I read about everyone being concerned about catching cold from a draft in a hallway where they will spend all of five seconds walking from one end to the other, oh my GOD, people, you are all a bunch of raving HYPOCHONDRIACS
Heh. Though admittedly, germ theory was hopeless at the time, and people occasionally did die from colds then, so they had a little justification. (Says the raving hypochondriac...)