In his article "To Cuddle a Mockingbird," author
Ben Macintyre has
begun rewriting great literature to bring it into
line with popular sentiment. I, for one, have
always found the opening line of Anna Karenina
rather a downer. “Happy families are all alike;
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
When you read that, you just know things are going
to go off the rails or, more precisely, on them.
Here is something a little more upbeat: “Happy
families are just lovely; unhappy families are all
the same, and tend to bang on about it.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2067038,00.html
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