great and entirely non-litigious

usually the urge to describe myself in the manner of the author i'm reading comes over me when i'm engaged in agatha christie novels. i always feel like agatha christie would have something pretty incisive to say about me, and it wouldn't be anything i'd like--she'd put me into words in about a sentence (i'd show up as some sort of friend of the dead person), and i have the feeling that the word "bovine" would be used. i think ngaio marsh might be even harsher. in fact, the only mystery writer i like that i think would be at all kind to me is raymond chandler, and that's only because he doesn't seem to have any types of broad between the good and the bad.

inspired by reading the first version of the american, i think henry james would describe me something like this: "what intellect she possessed was separate from the affect that she had, which was that of a timid but beautifully kept domestic animal."