I was about sixteen, I think. Maybe I missed the boat. I was already an incurable cynic at that point. Jane Eyre is still one of my favourite books though.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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Jars - Mar 01, 2006 6:30:58 am PST #717 of 10001
Jessica - Mar 01, 2006 6:36:10 am PST #718 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I was already an incurable cynic at that point. Jane Eyre is still one of my favourite books though.
Hm...Jane/Rochester strikes me as far less cynical a love story than Cathy/Heathcliff, but it's been ages since I read either one. (I loved Jane Eyre as a kid, but when I reread it in high school, Jane annoyed me far too much for me to want her to end up happy.)
Jars - Mar 01, 2006 6:40:00 am PST #719 of 10001
Hm...Jane/Rochester strikes me as far less cynical a love story than Cathy/Heathcliff, but it's been ages since I read either one.
Isn't a cynic just a romantic who's lived too long? And in some ways it is a far more traditionally romantic text, but I always felt it was far more honest, too.
Hayden - Mar 01, 2006 6:43:04 am PST #720 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I lean towards hate for the Brontes. Haven't read the books in years, but MAN do I remember wishing that someone would just shoot someone else. I don't normally wish that literature would turn into a Bruce Willis movie, but Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre were begging for car chases and wry, not-quite-funny quips.
Jessica - Mar 01, 2006 6:46:18 am PST #721 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Reader, I shot him. t /obQuote
Strega - Mar 01, 2006 7:17:14 am PST #722 of 10001
Wuthering Heights is about extreme, passionate, demented people, placed in an eerie landscape that mirrors their emotional state. That's about as romantic as you can get without having a club foot.
"Romantic" doesn't just mean having or inspiring squishy feelings of love. They aren't naturalistic characters, they aren't classical characters; they're romantic characters.
Nutty - Mar 01, 2006 7:23:59 am PST #723 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
...If your character wouldn't be out of place swooping a cloak, he might be a romantic character.
...If your character stares out the window at moors at night, while the wind howls, he might be a romantic character.
...If your character has some kind of deformity that causes him to dress up like a great big freak, he might be a romantic character. (Okay, I think that happens only in one text.)
It's like "you might be a redneck", only in scarlet and midnight black!!
Sean K - Mar 01, 2006 7:26:42 am PST #724 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Snerk, Nutty.
Also, I just realized that I will be working Sunday night, as will S, and we'll be missing most of the Oscars. Dammit.
Kathy A - Mar 01, 2006 7:27:59 am PST #725 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'll have Mr. Rochester and the batshit secret in the attic, pleasethankyou.
I'm about two-thirds done with The Eyre Affair, and love the fact that Rochester is becoming a big, if mysterious, character in this modern-if-AU story. Also loved that Wordsworth is portrayed as a typical poet, using his romantic airs to hit on women.
erikaj - Mar 01, 2006 7:35:50 am PST #726 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
JANE:Mr. Rochester(cocks pistol): Make up your mind.Blanche or me. I'm way too old for this shit. Oh, and thanks, Corwood, for the image of two of my favorite literary characters running around the moors like Paulie and Christopher in "Pine Barrens" Catherine saying "cocksucker" when her phone doesn't work, alone, may drive me back to therapy. Honestly, "Reader, I murdered him." works better. Alliteration and shit.