Leapin’ Louisa
On a slow news week, we are most grateful for our correspondents and their links. Our Mysterious Correspondent of last week (who, we understand, is enjoying being mysterious) sent us a word from an article in the New York Times that had nothing to do with Jane Austen, except that it put her in mind of Louisa Musgrove’s leap from the Cobb in Persuasion. Scroll down to the list of “manias” and you will see the mot du jour:
Catapedamania: obsession with jumping from high places.
Is there a mania for swooning into the arms of handsome sailors, we wonder? And how would one go about catching it?
