http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/01/everything-old-is-new-again-pick-up-lines/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:32:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/01/everything-old-is-new-again-pick-up-lines/#comment-114866 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:47:01 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/01/everything-old-is-new-again-pick-up-lines/#comment-114866 [...] Well, Seth Roberts has found an interesting parallel in Jane Austen’s writing.  Roberts, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, gives these two excerpts from Austen’s Northanger Abbey: “I have sometimes thought,” said Catherine, doubtingly, “whether ladies do write so much better letters than gentlemen! That is — I should not think the superiority was always on our side.” [...] […] Well, Seth Roberts has found an interesting parallel in Jane Austen’s writing.  Roberts, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, gives these two excerpts from Austen’s Northanger Abbey: “I have sometimes thought,” said Catherine, doubtingly, “whether ladies do write so much better letters than gentlemen! That is — I should not think the superiority was always on our side.” […]

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