Hmmm...Aren't I Just SOMEthing??!!

Four years ago I started reading George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, and in this post I high-lighted a line that jumped out at me:

“It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”

I was loving the book but unfortunately misplaced it before I got too far into it and never returned to it until today, when I picked up a new edition and on the back, big and smug and just sitting there easy as you please, was this:

Now, am I QUITE pleased with myself to be at least as brilliant as whoever approved the back cover for the 1961 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company edition? OF COURSE I AM QUITE PLEASED WITH MYSELF TO BE AT LEAST AS BRILLIANT AS WHOEVER APPROVED THE BACK COVER FOR THE 1961 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITION!!!!

 Sigh. Fun being me, people.