Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Reading Notes on Guy Mannering

Reading Notes: Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
September 13-16, 2008. Transcribed from Twitter.

Rainy morning, reading Walter Scott, "Guy Mannering." Advice: "fools should not have chapping sticks." 10:34 AM Sep 13th, 2008 from txt

"Guy Mannering": remarkable character of the lawyer Mr. Pleydell, intimate of the. E'burgh elite (Hume, J. S. Mill), devotee of High Jinks ... 9:26 PM Sep 14th, 2008 from txt

More Pleydell: Law's like laudenum; it's much more easy to use it as a quack does, than learn to apply it like a physician. 8:12 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web

In "Guy Mannering," describing the scheming Gossin: "his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villany." 8:15 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web

The gypsy sibyl Meg Merrilees to Mannering: "you are a good seeker, but a bad finder." 8:34 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web

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