Bearing grudges

[pegkerr]

It is quite ridiculous for me to be so resentful about something that happened almost two hundred years ago. But although I know that Jane Austen loved her sister Cassandra probably more than anyone else in her life, I still nurse a furious resentment towards Cassandra for burning many of Jane's letters after her death (by some estimates Jane wrote over 3,000 letters over the course of her life, but only 160 or so remain). And the ones she kept, she censored. Even if it was what Jane wanted her to do.

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

If it helps any with perspective on that, I can still get worked up to tears over the Library of Alexandria in less than a minute.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what you mean. That's another grudge of mine. I actually wrote a short story on the subject, but I wasn't able to ever sell it.