She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic. Dennis Lehane
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Jane Austen means that time is nothing to her, but a series of bookmarks she uses to jump back and forth through the text of her life. The events that mark her in the eyes of her more astute colleagues as having all the characteristics of the classic melancholic. It is a very sad story that Jane Austen didn’t have enough money to pay for her funeral. She died at age forty-one and was buried in a pauper’s grave.

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