![]() ![]() In this passage, Isabel considers the importance of good manners: Others among us felt that the philosophical questions deeply enriched the novel. ![]() She’s pretentious and/or arrogant (two adjectives which I would not myself have thought to apply to her, so I was interested to learn that others found them apt, in the circumstances.)Īnn felt impatient with Isabel’s philosophizing she felt that it got in the way of the plot. (I probably didn’t mind this characteristic because her judgments so often agree with mine.) She keeps “bumping into herself” (love that locution!), trying to use reason to understand and control feelings, an effort that’s pretty much doomed to fail. In my post on The Careful Use of Compliments, I said that I envision Isabel as a model for a dress of the mid-twentieth century. ![]() She seems like someone in her sixties, not in her early forties, as she’s purported to be. Septemat 5:13 pm ( Book clubs, Book review, books, Mystery fiction)Īn especially interesting aspect of the recent Usual Suspects discussion of The Sunday Philosophy Club centered on Isabel Dalhousie’s character. ![]() The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith: a book discussion ![]()
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