How Literature Has Ruined Me, #7740

[mrissa]

I was looking through sale items at a store online, and I came upon a certain skirt. "Hey!" I said to myself. "If I bought that skirt, I would be the Sympathetic Grown-Up in an E. Nesbit story!"

Then it occurred to me that I already am that model of Sympathetic Grown-Up. Mostly. Without quite so many self-contradictory class issues. And with more of a personal life than the later, C. S. Lewis model of Sympathetic Grown-Up.

I bought the skirt.

I hope it fits.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Um. The one in the Bastables book where they're staying with the lady who is into Higher Living? She's the only Nesbit Sympathetic Grownup I can think of whose skirt I might recognize.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

You ask a lot of your skirts.

[numinicious.livejournal.com]

When I first glanced at this post my eye immediately saw, "skirt" and "up".

My monitor is covered with tea. I hope you're happy, Mris.