Hi! I'm grateful to everyone who's been using Twitter as a way to stay friendly and connected. This morning @briankoppelman and @thinkingpoker encouraged me to share my morning coffee. I mentioned I was reading Jonathan Swift. [1/N]
Indeed, more Googling suggests that *all* the card-playing language here is consistent with the vocabulary and mechanics of quadrille: https://www.parlettgames.uk/histocs/quadrill.html … [8/N]
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And I'll just add that one of the many thrills of _Pride and Prejudice_, for me, is that in a setting so different from my daily life, everyone pauses every so often to go play cards. [9/N]
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I'm sure there's a lot of research that has been done and could be done here. But now you know enough to laugh a little harder here. Again, good pandemic reading. So that's what I was doing over my royale this morning,
@briankoppelman. Thanks for making it friendlier. [10/10]Show this thread
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