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[lady_schrapnell]

The other day I happened to see a large sign in a shop window in the city centre advertising ice grips in stock AND that evening found there were thermal socks with a tog rating for sale in our local (small) grocery store.  I'm still pondering the question of whether such early Irish preparations for a winter even worse than the last one are the

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[schmoomom]

I didn't know someone fell on the tracks last year! From a height?

[lady_schrapnell]

No, from the platform after getting off a DART - thankfully not under it! I think he had a stroke, but not sure of the details.

[schmoomom]

Wow. How scary. But yes, glad it was when it was!

[sartorias]

Yes--I really, really believe that the first half of Northanger was totally rewritten toward the end of her life, but she abandoned it and left the old draft as soon as she dropped in the joke about highwaymen, soon after they left Bath.

[lady_schrapnell]

Interesting! I remember reading various critics on the subject of how much rewriting was done, but don't remember enough to have any belief about it atm. That note about the changes in society at the beginning certainly makes it look as if she'd mostly stuck with the old draft, at any rate.