on The Family---for possible discussion re Vineland/TRP

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals — or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious idea?
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>  — Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), British novelist

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina