I wanna go to lunch too. We can bitch about Duchess Helen. And pet the cat
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
And then Franklin can dab iodine on the resultant scratches.
Not that I'm in any way against the lunch idea, I just remember what happened to the Duchess's butler in Busman's Honeymoon.
snerk. Yes, I thought of the scratches too, but I couldn't think of Franklin's name.
The cat is, of course, Ahasuerus. (I thought Franklin was sort of a lady's companion, not a butler? Female, anyway?)
I thought that the male butler was the one who got his nose scratched. As I think back on it, it was probably the Dowager Duchess dabbing the iodine on his nose. Or on Franklin's nose. Or maybe it was the butler who needed to go to the dentist and he had no cat trauma whatsoever.
I think I need to reread Busman's Honeymoon. Eh, the weekend looked all rainy and non-outdoorsy anyway, so why not?
All your Harriet Vane are belong to me.
You can have her, DX. My main response to her is "Get over it already, woman".
Well, yes, there are times I want to shake some sense into her, but long term she seems worth it.
If Harriet Vane had been me, Busman's Honeymoon would have taken place before Have His Carcase. And the latter would have been rather different. (Although I do love significant chunks of HHC, so it's probably just as well that Vane != me.)
Here I am with big stacks of books from both the libraries I patronize, and what am I doing? Re-reading the abovementioned books from my very own bookshelf. This morning I moved on to Gaudy Night, after lamenting that Have His Carcase has gone AWOL.
And I love the Dowager Duchess. And Bunter. And Chief Inspector Parker and Lady Mary. And Harriet, for that matter--in an "I know she's a Mary Sue, but dammit, I can identify with her, too" sort of way.