Originally Posted by phil solo:
“A couple of HMs who consider themselves to be a bit intellectual have in the past disdained and nominated Corin for being 'uneducated' ill-informed or otherwise a bit shallow and vapid. To Ben's eternal credit, despite being patently better educated and more cosmopolitan none of this matters and he just sees in Corin the lovely warm-hearted lass that she is.
Similarly criticism has at times been levelled at Ben for being a pretentious 'posh boy' with a lack of community spirit and a penchant for moaning about his surroundings but Corin, whilst not averse to pointing out to Ben his flaws if prompted, appreciates him as an interesting and essentially good-natured guy.
The point with the Ben/Corin friendship is that they are very open and accepting of themselves and their different backgrounds and don't for one minute let ridiculous notions of snobbery, inferiority complexes or 'class prejudice' get in the way of being friends.
It's all rather admirable and sweet, IMO
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“A couple of HMs who consider themselves to be a bit intellectual have in the past disdained and nominated Corin for being 'uneducated' ill-informed or otherwise a bit shallow and vapid. To Ben's eternal credit, despite being patently better educated and more cosmopolitan none of this matters and he just sees in Corin the lovely warm-hearted lass that she is.
Similarly criticism has at times been levelled at Ben for being a pretentious 'posh boy' with a lack of community spirit and a penchant for moaning about his surroundings but Corin, whilst not averse to pointing out to Ben his flaws if prompted, appreciates him as an interesting and essentially good-natured guy.
The point with the Ben/Corin friendship is that they are very open and accepting of themselves and their different backgrounds and don't for one minute let ridiculous notions of snobbery, inferiority complexes or 'class prejudice' get in the way of being friends.
It's all rather admirable and sweet, IMO
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I love it when a friendship or relationship crosses all the usual assumed barriers of education, class, just generally things in common. None of that is needed when the chemistry just works between 2 people and they get one another at a deep level. I don't always think you can put it into words either, why some people connect with each other and yet not with other people who look as if they'd have a more obvious connection.
A lot of people were suprised when my o/h and I got together as there didn't seem to be anything obvious we'd got in common (we look a bit alike in terms of colouring, tho oddly one of our kids looks nothing like either of us
). My husband often says I have a "faulty gene" that attracts me, from my fairly well educated "rising" middle class (from working class 2 generations ago) background to "bad boys" like him!! And we've been married 30 years this year. Not that I'm suggesting B & C will have a relationship as such, just friendships in general.
They would have so much fun together in the final week
