this week, in reverse

[anodyna]

1. I'm using text from Emma as a placeholder in a web page I'm making this afternoon. Mr Elton, what a dick! Also it's reminding me of a book about marriage I read a while ago; it was going along fine until the author made a claim about Jane Austen's views on marriage. Her support: a quote from Mrs Elton. MRS ELTON! W T F

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[browngirl]

*waves to you in your accomplishedness*

That book sounds hurl-worthy.

[anodyna]

\o/ doing the things, whee! Someday I'll have a few minutes to type on my story...hopefully. I hope your weekend is going well!

[anodyna]

Thank you so much! I love it when things turn out. :D

[rustydog]

Yay that you got to see Great Lake Swimmers! I think you introduced me to them. :)

I LOVE your pine branch watercolor badge.

[anodyna]

They were so good, it was really fun to see them. It was neat to be in the venue, also--I hadn't been in that building since it was a dollar movie theater, probably 18 years ago. Now it's a really nice concert space with beers on tap and a pretty wood-floored stage. And it's across the street from the historic theater where John Dillinger was killed, and Greg and I had our first date (unrelated events).

I'm so glad you like the badge! Thank you. :)

[anodyna]

Yeah, the book was a disaster from a literature standpoint--kind of like Opposite Austen? The Bingley sisters got used as evidence for some totally wrong point also--something about the Bennetts representing the upstart middle classes who were threatening the traditional upper classes (the Bingleys!) with their social climbing.

The actual subject of the book was the sociology of marriage in the 20th century, so all this misquoting wasn't even necessary! It was like filler at the start of chapters. So wrong.

[delurker]

Later she quoted Virginia Woolf as having given a speech "in 1943, when she was at the height of her powers." OR DEAD FOR TWO YEARS. IT'S PRACTICALLY THE SAME THING.
ahahaha, brilliant. (Maybe they meant at the height of her ZOMBIE POWERS?)

Watercolours! So pretty.

[anodyna]

(Maybe they meant at the height of her ZOMBIE POWERS?)

Of course! Silly me, what was I thinking?

(Zombie Virginia Woolf would be kind of awesome, no? Although I think vampire Virginia Woolf would be more articulate so possibly better company.)

[delurker]

Vampire Virginia Woolf would be both amazing and terrifying.