We\u2019re staying in a hotel that\u2019s maybe two or three hundred yards from the famous Stadshus or city hall of Stockholm, and just across the bridge from the Gamla Stan or original \u201cOld Town\u201d that was founded by the Vikings about a thousand years ago.\u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nJane Austen, Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t a bad trip\u00a0over. \u00a0I like to watch movies on transoceanic flights. \u00a0On this one, I watched Casablanca<\/em>, which I still regard as almost a perfect film. \u00a0Also Eddie the Eagle<\/em>, which I enjoyed. \u00a0(Rather an inspiring story, in its curious way.) \u00a0And Clueless<\/em>, the 1985 revisioning of Jane Austen\u2019s 1815 novel Emma<\/em> with Alicia Silverstone in the title role. \u00a0Which was appropriate because I\u2019m just about finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve confessed before to my thorough enjoyment of Jane Austen. \u00a0I\u2019m a hopeless romantic, and I sometimes fear that my love for Austen novels and for most movie remakes of them \u2014 I except the 1940 version with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson, which many people seem to like but which I regard as an abomination \u2014 casts doubt upon my masculinity. \u00a0But there you have it: \u00a0Although I try very hard (and, many of my critics would say, quite successfully) to be vicious, mean-spirited, abusive, and cruel, in my heart of hearts I\u2019m really an incurable sentimentalist.<\/p>\n
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