That's Us. A Little Highbrow. A Little Mundane.
From The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield--there's a great description of a minor character (the doctor's wife) in the book. It goes like this (page 104):
"The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it."
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oh, me too! me too! in fact our primaries are on tuesday... hoping and praying.
I like him (among other reasons) because my very conservative republican father stated that if McCain got the rep nomination he would just have to vote for Obama. (!) Ya, I don't think he really meant it... but the fact that it is what came out of his mouth in a moment of passion made an impression. (he would NEVER have said the same about Clinton)
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