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Re: Jim: the circle around the arts; Charles: the circle around Darcy

February 19, 2015 07:57PM
Jim D. Greetings. I don't ask you to do anything but accept my opinons as just such and nothing more. (-:

Lizzie say's of Jane:

You never see a fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.''

I do but be realistic in saying all the Bennets girls lead very sheltered lives. Apart from the odd walk/shopping trip to Meryton, some gossip and socialising at a couple of close neighbours and a monthly assembly, nothing much seems to happen beyond a rousing family chat about Fordyce's Sermons, a backgammon battle occasionally and maybe a bit of terpsichore to Mary's pianoforte, oh, and Lizzie hurdling a style or two whist walking. Upper/middle-class, no employment to trouble them and, in Jane's case, seemingly a real home-bird who is the one who looks after the children. Mary is studious, Kitty and Lydia senseless and Lizzie fiesty and with a little more "quickness" than the rest. Jane, at twenty two and five times prettier than anyone else has presumably had some male interest besides the sonnet scribbler with a taste for fifteen year olds. That said, Bingley apart there is little romantic activity in her life mentioned anywhere. Darcy accepts she is pretty but "smiles too much" and Wickham doesn't give her a second look. Mr Collins considers her for all of thirty seconds before moving on to Lizzie. Lolita she isn't. Bingley appears to be the love of her life. Personally, I think she and he would make a fine pair of Staffordshire pot figures for the mantlepiece. (-; Anne Elliot is much more mature and we do get to know a lot about her character. Jane Bennet is far more a background figure. We finish up glad for her happy ending, but in my case, little more.

As to fanfics, they are but the product of modern imaginations and little to do with anything. Jane Austen's book/books is/are the only unarguable canon. I read P.D. James's Death Comes to Pemberley ( which I though awful) and watched the BBC miniseries (with a blue-eyed Lizzie) unimpressed. Lost in Austen was harmless and quite hilarious and I've seen it twice because it never attempts to be anything but spoof and Amanda Root is brilliant in it. None of it is relevant in any way. To me, fan-fic is just jumping on the Austen bandwaggon. Sorry if that upsets anyone. It isn't intended to.
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The missing eight months

Jim G.MFebruary 13, 2015 01:37PM

Cracked up over this one

Femme MalheureuseFebruary 17, 2015 09:42PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 18, 2015 01:48PM

Jim: the circle around the arts; Charles: the circle around Darcy

Femme MalheureuseFebruary 18, 2015 06:38PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 18, 2015 09:02PM

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Jim D.February 19, 2015 05:52PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 19, 2015 07:57PM

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Jim D.February 19, 2015 09:41PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 19, 2015 10:32PM

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Jim D.February 20, 2015 01:25AM

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Jim G.MFebruary 20, 2015 12:20PM

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Jim D.February 20, 2015 05:50PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 20, 2015 08:24PM

Someone like Willoughby, for example?

GracielaFebruary 19, 2015 12:49AM

For every Willoughby...

Jim G.MFebruary 19, 2015 02:39PM

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Little NellFebruary 19, 2015 03:40PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 19, 2015 04:49PM

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Little NellFebruary 19, 2015 05:12PM

Re: Someone like Willoughby, for example?

Jim G.MFebruary 19, 2015 12:12PM

Brilliant, Graciela!

RedsonFebruary 19, 2015 01:20AM

Perfect! Well done! (nfm)

Sandy CFebruary 18, 2015 03:57PM

Re: Cracked up over this one

RedsonFebruary 18, 2015 12:39AM

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MichelleAnne--February 14, 2015 06:41PM

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AlanFebruary 15, 2015 12:31AM

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Harvey S.February 14, 2015 04:52PM

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Suzanne OFebruary 15, 2015 03:41PM

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Harvey S.February 24, 2015 05:57PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 24, 2015 10:19PM

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AdelaideFebruary 27, 2015 12:11PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 27, 2015 02:32PM

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Agnes BeatrixFebruary 15, 2015 10:10PM

Georgiana's establishment

TashaFebruary 15, 2015 05:52PM

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Agnes BeatrixFebruary 16, 2015 12:03PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 15, 2015 07:13PM

Why Georgiana would (or might) live separately from her brother

RedsonFebruary 15, 2015 10:22PM

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AlanFebruary 16, 2015 08:34AM

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RedsonFebruary 16, 2015 04:49PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 16, 2015 07:22PM

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RedsonFebruary 17, 2015 04:29AM

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Debra McFebruary 15, 2015 10:19PM

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BeatriceFebruary 21, 2015 01:47AM

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Jim G.MFebruary 21, 2015 12:37PM

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BeatriceFebruary 21, 2015 01:08PM

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Renee BFebruary 21, 2015 03:49AM

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Jim G.MFebruary 16, 2015 12:20AM

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Suzanne OFebruary 17, 2015 03:31AM

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RedsonFebruary 16, 2015 12:52AM

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Jim G.MFebruary 16, 2015 02:03PM

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Rosie J.February 17, 2015 05:51AM

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Jim G.MFebruary 17, 2015 01:11PM

I agree, Debra Mc (nfm)

RedsonFebruary 15, 2015 10:26PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 15, 2015 01:50PM

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Jim G.MFebruary 14, 2015 07:04PM



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