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DECEMBER 16, 2009 12:37PM

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Samuel Pepys on marriage:

Christmas Day 1665:

“To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the Church, which I have not seen many a day, and the young people so merry one with another, and strange, to see what delight we married have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.”

A backhandedly-comforting reminder that humans, and their nature, do not change.

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yow..imagine that xmas day wedding 1665...the poor young hopeful innocent foolish ones of clear complexion
merrily rolling into matrimony....
the sagely old men and
kindhearted wives
looking on...

1665: newton toiling, milton too, yes?
if my literary/scientific historical memory
is serving me....
"what goes up
must come down"
being formulated into the
very fabric of timespace....
be it apples or
Adam&Eve...

James M. Emmerling

December 16, 2009 01:01 PM

Some things sort of never change . . .

Owl_Says_Who

December 16, 2009 01:03 PM

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull

Jeff Brawer

December 16, 2009 04:30 PM

Rated for being backhandedly-comforting.

Nick Carraway

December 16, 2009 05:58 PM

I have only read a smattering of Pepys. I guess it's probably all available on Project Gutenberg or the like. I should read him some more. The one line that sticks in my mind (this says something about my mind, I suspect) is "Pleasured the serving maid thrice, she with her boots on."