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June 28, 2007
Too lazy/exhausted to post. Consider this an open thread. What’s new in the world of Jane Austen fans?
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PD: terribly fun words with that doll! Simply scary
Am I the only one…? I feel awfully stupid, but what is “redrum” supposed to mean?
Must be a generational thing.
In the fabulous and fun movie The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson, his son Danny has an imaginary friend who “talks” by Danny flexing his index finger and Danny making a funny voice. “Hello Mrs. Torrance!”
Then of course the kid gets possessed and starts writing “REDRUM” (with backwards Rs, as kids are wont to do) all over the wall. When Mum catches a sight of the word in the mirror it spells….MURDER!
I crack people up with my hand puppet saying “JANE SAYS REDRUM!” all the time. You have to do the Danny Torrance finger-flex with the puppet, though.
What’s new, you ask? Yesterday there was a shoot-out over at The Book Mine Set pitting Edgar Allan Poe versus Jane. It was a dead heat for a time, but… see for yourselves:
http://bookmineset.blogspot.com/2007/06/great-wednesday-compare-3-edgar-allan.html
Beg pardon! I did not read closely enough. The voting is still open, and will be until 3rd July. So, Janeites, let’s get those votes in!
I don’t know if it’s generational — I’m still in my early 20s.
There’s something I meant to send in but forgot. The N.B. Commentary feature in the Times Literary Supplement is running a kind of campaign in defence of the use of “one” as a pronoun in sentences. Readers have been asked to send in examples from literature and one that the TLS staff deemed worthy was a sentence from Austen. From Persuasion to be exact, said by Mary Musgrove (I think).
“Everybody is always supposing that I am not a good walker; and yet they would not have been pleased, if we had refused to join them. When people come in this manner on purpose to ask us, how can one say no?”
Oh, sorry, I forgot to say that it appeared in the June 8th issue.
What is new with me? Well, I leave this Sunday for a lovely 6-week trip to England. I am researching Jane Austen’s letters and conduct book lit of her period for my English senior thesis. Getting excited!
Mags, you are one delightfully sick pup — or is that pug?
I just spent the day in London, overloading myself with art at the Courtauld Institute and the Wallace Collection. Both museums are stunning, but the Wallace Collection is the place to go if you want to see a portrait of our friend the Prince Regent in a grand London townhouse where Prinny himself attended a ball in 1814 to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon.
Thanks for mentioning my blog Tony. Yes, as you corrected, the competition is still open. Some people, it seemed, mistakenly read the first line to mean that Poe beat out Austen. I’ve edited it now, the line in question was refering to the previous week’s competition which saw Poe up against Stephen King. Sorry about the confusion.
New things in my world are that I’m seventeen this Sunday (yay!) and I have just now been singing ‘Seventeen Come Sunday’ with my harp (the clean version, if you were wondering), and I suddenly thought the last verse sounded like the end of ‘Persuasion’… “She gloried in being a sailor’s wife…” “The drum and fife is my delight, and a merry man is mine-o” …or maybe not… Maybe it was just all the happy sailors’ wifes, or perhaps the rhyme of fife and wife… is it just me?
I apologise in case there is any confusion, but I wasn’t singing WITH my harp – that is, my harp wasn’t singing, I was playing the harp, and singing WITH it – sorry, I’m not making any sense. Just – never mind.
Today’s Romancing the Tome blog showcases whimsical vintage-style jewelry by Tartx. Check out the Jane Austen antique optical lens pendant. Jane is also available on a button, magnet, or pocket mirror. (If Edgar Allan Poe is more to your taste, there are several items featuring his visage.)
Mags, thanks for explaining. It probably has less to do with my age and more to do with the fact that I am a wimp and don’t watch scary movies.
I don’t like scary movies either, but The Shining is just a good movie (and funny as well as scary). Heeeeere’s JOHNNY! (Another gag that might possibly be lost on a younger generation…hmm.)
Happy Birthday, Charlotte. Thank you for such a lovely post and reminding most of us how delightful it was to be seventeen.
*Does get the Heeeeere’s Johnny gag, despite being chronologically un-advanced*
One of “Jane’s” eyes looks bigger than the other. Rather a wild look.