Like Mr. Darcy, I too was once considered a marital catch. No, I didn't have you'd call an estate or whadyaknow, but I got union scale, which was my good fortune in this age where skilled jobs are getting exported to China or dumped to motherfucking right to work states. The truth I wish I had known when I was a single man in possession of that fortune, that I wish I'd seen marked out in red print on some electrical schematic of my soul, though I cannot be sure that this advice would have proven equally true for Mr. Darcy or that he'd be able even to interpret the schematic, is that after a day of climbing and descending ladders and exposing myself to dangerously high voltages, is that I would desire most was not female companionship but a cold beer and a soft bed. It may be that Mr. Darcy felt the same way.
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Date: 2011-10-06 04:03 pm (UTC)Like Mr. Darcy, I too was once considered a marital catch. No, I didn't have you'd call an estate or whadyaknow, but I got union scale, which was my good fortune in this age where skilled jobs are getting exported to China or dumped to motherfucking right to work states. The truth I wish I had known when I was a single man in possession of that fortune, that I wish I'd seen marked out in red print on some electrical schematic of my soul, though I cannot be sure that this advice would have proven equally true for Mr. Darcy or that he'd be able even to interpret the schematic, is that after a day of climbing and descending ladders and exposing myself to dangerously high voltages, is that I would desire most was not female companionship but a cold beer and a soft bed. It may be that Mr. Darcy felt the same way.