Status Updates From The Shuttle

Chapter 16 has a conversation like watching an expert fencing match. It’s impossible to see who will get the upper hand. 👀

Transplanting is a good metaphor for this book. Page 276 with Betty’s speech.

G Selden returns in dramatic fashion! 😂

Chapter 14 is hilarious! Lord Mount Dunstan happens to meet an American young man outside his park gate and invites him to lunch.

“He was markedly unlike an English youth of his class…he was at his ease to quite an amazing degree…He found indeed a gleeful point in the joke of the incongruousness of his own presence amid such surroundings” (249).

The differences in slang and idiom are so funny.

Chapter 9 was rather splendid!

“Disorder filled her with a sort of impatience which was akin to physical distress” (132).

“‘That is American,’ she said, ‘the habit of comparing every stick and stone and breathing thing to some literary parallel’” (116).

A young woman on her first visit to England.

Oh my, I love this! 😮😮 Nigel is vile and it feels like his comeuppance is already being laid out for him. 😈

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