Thursday, January 18, 2007

It struck me on Arthur's birthday that the old man was a little
shaken: he's eighty-three, you know. It's really an unconscionable
age. It's only women who have a right to live as long as that.

--George Eliot, _Adam Bede_

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's really unconscionable that I don't encounter the word unconscionable in my readings anymore. It is all usually about piss nowadays.

-phil

marn said...

for a split second, i thought you were talking about arthur robins