The Hired Girl (2015)
“It was late last night and I was in the library trying to read the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. That was Mr. Rosenbach’s idea. I finished The Moonstone and was going to start The Woman in White, which is also by Mr. Wilkie Collins. It begins in such a fascinating way: This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve. How can anyone not want to read that? But yesterday Mr. Rosenbach asked me what I was reading. When I told him, he looked thought...ful and said that if I wanted to become truly educated, I must read history and philosophy as well as novels.
So I asked for some philosophy because I thought that sounded elevated, and he gave me the Meditations. It isn’t long, for which I am grateful because it’s slow going. It seems to me that Marcus Aurelius doesn’t want anybody to get excited about anything. I don’t want to live like that. If anything exciting ever happens to me, I want to get excited about it. Of course, thus far my life has been tedious because of Steeple Farm and being only the hired girl, but there is such a thing as real life, and sooner or later it’s going to begin.MoreLess
So I asked for some philosophy because I thought that sounded elevated, and he gave me the Meditations. It isn’t long, for which I am grateful because it’s slow going. It seems to me that Marcus Aurelius doesn’t want anybody to get excited about anything. I don’t want to live like that. If anything exciting ever happens to me, I want to get excited about it. Of course, thus far my life has been tedious because of Steeple Farm and being only the hired girl, but there is such a thing as real life, and sooner or later it’s going to begin.MoreLess
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