"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone".

Jane Austen - Persuasion

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Dios! Tal cual. Somos las que nos quedamos pensando siempre aún cuando las cosas indican que el tema no va.
La heroína dijo antes:

"We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our FATE rather than our MERIT. We cannot help ourselves. (Cuánta verdad!!) We live at home, quiet, confined, (eran otras épocas, bueno) and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions". (ME SIENTO MUY IDENTIFICADA!)

Pero el protagonista se lo reclamó, diciendole:

"No, no, it is not man's nature. I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant and forget those they do love, or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe in a true analogy between our bodily frames and our mental; and that as our bodies are the strongest, so are our feelings; capable of bearing most rough usage, and riding out the heaviest weather".

Al final ella concluye:

"We never can expect to prove anything upon such a point. It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle; many of which circumstances (perhaps those very causes which strike us the most) may be precisely such as cannot be brout forward without betraying a confidence, or in some respect saying what should not be said".

O sea: que ambos discuten con una preferencia hacia el propio sexo, y que sobre esa preferencia construyen cada circunstancia en favor de lo que ocurrió en el propio círculo social. Circunstancias que a veces no pueden contarse sin traicionar una confidencia, o sin decir algo que no debería ser dicho.

Cuánta verdad! Siempre hablamos sobre las experiencias del propio círculo, y sobre todo basándonos en aquellas que nos sorprendieron más!

Pero en lo que ella dice al final (o al principio de esta exposición), de que el único privilegio que puede reclamar para su sexo -y que ni siquiera es envidiable!!- es el de seguir amando incluso cuando la existencia o la esperanza se terminó....

...enough said.

No podía venirme más al pelo sobre lo que me pasa en este momento.


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