"Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of history?"---Vanity Fair

Curled up in a little concrete creation, reading 'Vanity Fair' for the first time in my life. Thackeray's random thoughts and illustrations on his characters make me wander back to a simpler time, when women could be bright, vivacious, and beautiful without compromising their dignity or sweetness as women, and not pale imitation 'attempers' at being men.