pride and prejudice

in the past week i've all but abandoned e.m. forster's "a passage to india" (which despite my initial excitement over the cover, the blurb, and the title, is actually quite dull and drab) to rekindle my love of one of my all-time favorite classics, jane austen's "pride and prejudice." (while not in the same category as "catcher in the rye" or "the perks of being a wallflower" it's still up there).

due to the Great Blizzhizzard of '05 and the bad tires that won't get replaced until tomorrow morning, i decided not to deal with the stress of driving home for a two hour break of internetting, televisioning, and reading, and instead camped out in the garden room with my half-finished novel. michael sent julia to fetch me at 4:17, right as mr darcy (look, i typed it like the old brits do) and elizabeth bennet finally figure out that they really do love each other....oh MAN. i'll bet this is a lot like the cable going out during the last minutes of a really good football game.


"'My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners - my behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?'

'For the liveliness of your mind, I did.'

'You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less. The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. Had you not been really amiable you would have hated me for it; but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and in your heart, you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you. There - I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it; and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly reasonable. To be sure, you knew no actual good of me - but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.'"



NOW i totally need to see the movie. totally.