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The main thing I remember about Ethan Frome is the broken pickle dish.

I never read Ethan Frome. Now, I feel like I was missing out on something ... and it's another book to add to my neverending list of books I've never read. Dammit.

@scarletvirtue: Most Wharton is worthwhile, although House of Mirth shits alllllllll over Ethan Frome from a vast height.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, READ THIS BOOK. Unless you're having trouble sleeping or you gave up on physical self-mutilation but still need to get your fix. If you hate yourself, by all means, read this.

And a big fuck you to a certain his toupee-wearing English teacher and the William H. Hall High School English Dept. for putting this literary water torture in the curriculum.

Sorry. Had to get that off my chest.

@encyclopediablack: I salute you. That's some amazing bile.

(I enjoy Wharton but never read this. I think we got Camus instead. "Hey have you heard this song by the Cure? It's TOTALLY about this!")

@encyclopediablack: They must have forwarded that memo to the Maloney High School English department. Something about enhanced interrogation techniques in the Connecticut school systems...

Holy crap. I wish I could have gotten a quote from that article before printed the posters for the marathon Ethan Frome reading I'm having next month.

printing, not printed. I got so excited I forgot the difference between the past tense and the, uh, gerund?

Only vaguely related: Is that Stephin Merritt singing and dancing in that newish gum commercial?