Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Miss Abigail's Hit
I just discovered missabigail.com via metafilter. I particularly enjoyed one Q&A regarding living together. The question of how a man and woman can live together seems like a modern one, but of course, man and woman have lived together for as long as history has been recorded.
Even though social mores have changed, what was written in 1896 about love and marriage remains true today:
Even though social mores have changed, what was written in 1896 about love and marriage remains true today:
If a man and a woman are to live together well, they must take the plant of love to the sunniest and securest place in their habitation. They must water it with tears of repentance, or tears of joy; they must jealously remove the destroying insects, and pluck off the dead leaves, that the living may take their place. And if they think they have any business in this life more pressing than the care and culture of the plant, they are undeserving of one another, and time's revenges will be swift and stern.
