Status Updates From Mansfield Park

“‘One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.’”

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called ~more~ wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient—at others, so bewildered & so weak—and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!”