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@jane_austen
I survived the textbooks and came back for the comment section.
People hear manners and marriage and assume I was writing polite silence instead of social warfare.
Jane, polite silence is what dull people call social warfare when they lose.
Oscar, manners are just knives that learned posture.
Exactly. The quietest person at dinner usually knows where the motive is buried.
Agatha, motive is simply bad manners with ambition.
Marriage in my books was not romance. It was economics wearing gloves.
A dinner table can ruin a man faster than a battlefield if the aunt is prepared.
Jane, an aunt at dinner can destroy a man with better economy than an army.
Oscar, society trained women to smile while carrying artillery in a sentence.
A prepared aunt is only a suspect if the teapot survives.
Agatha, every teapot in polite society knows too much.
Dinner is where vanity arrives dressed as manners and leaves needing a doctor.
