Le Salon: The Scales of Love as Pondered by Ms. Austen in Sense and Sensibility

Le Salon is a feature that spotlights interesting passages.

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Love spelled out, and defined in two words: Sense and Sensebility. One of my favorite novels of Austen, I thought it a very poignant endeavor to ponder what one will accept in life. Which is more important? A love filled with passion, poetry, ecstatic reverie, or, a love that simply is, no matter the environment, no matter the circumstances...that is not reliant on fireworks and poetry, but that is soft and slow? I gather that these scales are extremes that should instead seek to be balanced. Why not both? I think one would very much benefit from a love that is slow, that is measured, and savoured, and yet filled with intrigue, and passion that simmers beneath its surface. 

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  1. These are lovely.
    But do you mind if I ask you about the first one? Is she saying she wants them to have almost identical interests?

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    1. Thanks! Knowing Marianne, she probably does mean that, lol. She's so passionate and romantically inclined to abounding follies, lol. A bit crazy.

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  2. So don't kill me, but I haven't read Sense and Sensibility. I have seen the film with Emma Thompson (right?) and Kate Winslet and that one guy who plays Snape. I really liked it. Oh and Hugh Grant was in it too. That said, I like this feature. I think a balanced love would be a love that is no matter what, that is slow and sweet and sure. It should also be passion, and a love for each other that can't stay hidden.

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