tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post8008965639866653300..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: Jane Austen gets saucyTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-86150406791193999282007-07-11T13:21:00.000+10:002007-07-11T13:21:00.000+10:00Who needed clarification?Who needed clarification?Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-67033331001215462592007-07-11T12:44:00.000+10:002007-07-11T12:44:00.000+10:00You're quite right, Mitzy. I'll no longer complai...You're quite right, Mitzy. I'll no longer complain.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-18026449230387716162007-07-11T10:56:00.000+10:002007-07-11T10:56:00.000+10:00Thanks Mitzy. I might just add a clarifying paragr...Thanks Mitzy. I might just add a clarifying paragraph to this shortly. <BR/><BR/>At least I've spared y'all, so far, from linking The Song of Solomon in the Old Testament to vindicate myself!TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-4350268106407656922007-07-11T10:43:00.000+10:002007-07-11T10:43:00.000+10:00I may not be among the frequently stocktaked on ti...I may not be among the frequently stocktaked on timt's stash of biatches but I have revelled in your collective commentary on the fruits of Austen. There's something truly Talmudic, or even tennisish about the perpetual clarification spawned from one scholar's take on the original scripture. <BR/>Nailpolishblues, I don't believe there is such a thing as too much time reading blogs unless your alternative is a pile of essays on Cloudstreet. Shudder.M L Jassyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13918911547104202603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-56941782333619853132007-07-10T23:36:00.000+10:002007-07-10T23:36:00.000+10:00These comments are certainly getting fruity. My fa...These comments are certainly getting fruity. <BR/><BR/>My favourite quote with 'fruit' in it is this, from The Producers - Max Bialystock to Roger de Vries...<BR/><BR/><I>"You lousy fruit! You've ruined me!"</I>TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-44164800194141949172007-07-10T22:24:00.000+10:002007-07-10T22:24:00.000+10:00Timmy, remember thy swashing blog.Timmy, remember thy swashing blog.Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-76942505882744375732007-07-10T21:59:00.000+10:002007-07-10T21:59:00.000+10:00Ah.. Caz.. To pray for her!Go to it; it is a plagu...Ah.. Caz..<BR/> To pray for her!Go to it; it is a plague<BR/> That cupid will impose for my neglect<BR/> Of his almighty dreadful little might.<BR/>Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray,sue and groan:<BR/> Some men must love my lady , and some Joan.<BR/><BR/>But what exceeds even 'Loves Labour's Lost' dear Caz, is your profound..<BR/> "Better to have blogged and lost than never to have blogged at all."<BR/><BR/> Such profound wisdom and perception is totally unsurpassed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-46541192694552050872007-07-10T21:44:00.000+10:002007-07-10T21:44:00.000+10:00I either need to be more specific or shut up, righ...I either need to be more specific or shut up, right?Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-23155995492919040312007-07-10T21:13:00.000+10:002007-07-10T21:13:00.000+10:00Nails - let him yearn, let him yearn. Better to h...Nails - let him yearn, let him yearn. Better to have blogged and lost than to have never blogged at all. <BR/><BR/>A wightly wanton with a velvet brow,<BR/>With two pitch balls stuck in her face for eyes;<BR/>Ay, and, by heaven, one that will do the deed<BR/>Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:<BR/>And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-12268572902035478332007-07-10T21:10:00.000+10:002007-07-10T21:10:00.000+10:00Steve - yes, she gets her flute, err, fruit, in th...Steve - yes, she gets her flute, err, fruit, in the end, of course.<BR/><BR/>Forget the book though, or the johnny-come-lately and entirely redundant film, the 1995 telly mini-series with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy can't be beat. <BR/><BR/>Aaaaaahhhhhh, Mr Darcy, aaaaaahhhhhh, Mr Darcy in wet shirt, aaaaaahhhhhh ...Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-82107727984719982202007-07-10T20:36:00.000+10:002007-07-10T20:36:00.000+10:00It's actually a typo. It should read:The look and ...It's actually a typo. It should read:<BR/><BR/>The look and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed, except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention. They talked of his sister, his friends, his house, <B>his flute</B> — of everything but himself; yet Elizabeth was longing to know what Mrs. Gardiner thought of him, and Mrs. Gardiner would have been highly gratified by her niece’s beginning the subject....nick cetaceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11137929283476007797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-13004241395997197412007-07-10T20:33:00.000+10:002007-07-10T20:33:00.000+10:00You might try loosening your corset.You might try loosening your corset.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-7868638175347651242007-07-10T20:20:00.000+10:002007-07-10T20:20:00.000+10:00Merely a touch of the vapours. Fetch me my smellin...Merely a touch of the vapours. Fetch me my smelling salts, Jeeves!TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-9081474180144978882007-07-10T19:42:00.000+10:002007-07-10T19:42:00.000+10:00Coming down with something, Tim..?Coming down with something, Tim..?Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-47006482583118442112007-07-10T19:34:00.000+10:002007-07-10T19:34:00.000+10:00*Cougs* Yes *Coughs**Cougs* Yes *Coughs*TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-9991716467446905622007-07-10T18:37:00.000+10:002007-07-10T18:37:00.000+10:00Um, so that I don't have to read it, or watch Coli...Um, so that I don't have to read it, or watch Colin Firth in a wet shirt, can someone tell me in 30 words or less the plot of the book and whether she gets her man (and his fruit) by the end?<BR/><BR/>Oh I'm sure the book is all very witty, wryly amusing and a fascinating look into that world at that time, etc, but I just have never been interested enough to actually read her. Or even to watch the movies or TV series. Maybe a Japanese manga version would get me in.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04108945551064939734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-53876023362417171342007-07-10T16:30:00.000+10:002007-07-10T16:30:00.000+10:00Try doing a post about your unfamiliarity with cof...Try doing a post about your unfamiliarity with coffee.Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-24877500235459734612007-07-10T16:10:00.000+10:002007-07-10T16:10:00.000+10:00It also helps if your, ahem, biatches happen to b...It also helps if your, ahem, biatches happen to be near a computers at the time and if one of your worst offenders is sick, bored, making no sense, and spending too much time reading blogs.<BR/><BR/>I don't think lust has anything to do with it. Close but entirely the wrong angle.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-80952930662212264172007-07-10T16:05:00.000+10:002007-07-10T16:05:00.000+10:00One things for sure, one quick way to rack up ten ...One things for sure, one quick way to rack up ten comments on your blog is to do a post about the sex that isn't in Jane Austen.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-73485486203023438762007-07-10T16:02:00.000+10:002007-07-10T16:02:00.000+10:00I once tried my hand at writing a story where a Ja...I once tried my hand at writing a story where a Jane Austen character (or possibly Austen herself) ran into Byron's Don Juan, though that went nowhere fast. <BR/><BR/>Nails, do you mean to say that I lust after Darcy? <BR/><BR/>I lust after ginger cake, let me tell you that much - not Darcy, as such.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-53633243650969804882007-07-10T15:57:00.000+10:002007-07-10T15:57:00.000+10:00I'm almost certain my ginger cake includes several...I'm almost certain my ginger cake includes several things you don't eat, Alexis. Five bucks though...<BR/><BR/>I do believe I've read parts of 'Pride and Promiscuity: the lost sex scenes of Jane Austen' - those sisters of Bingly, goodness!Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-9593954914410117262007-07-10T15:55:00.000+10:002007-07-10T15:55:00.000+10:00I bet Liz couldn't wait to get her hands on his ba...I bet Liz couldn't wait to get her hands on his banana!<BR/><BR/> Just too reserved and polite to say so. <BR/><BR/> Having said that, I reckon 'Pride And Prejudice' is STILL one of my most favourite novels..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-19318419897717105392007-07-10T15:54:00.000+10:002007-07-10T15:54:00.000+10:00After all, what would they be thinking about but n...After all, what would they be thinking about but not talking about in polite society? And why is their conversation about general things (family, lands, house) <I>except</I> when they talk about 'his fruit'? Darcy's not known for fruit cultivation. It's just a plot device allowing Austen to put a pun into the text.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-57772744963461258622007-07-10T15:51:00.000+10:002007-07-10T15:51:00.000+10:00I'm almost certain my comment doesn't get any ging...I'm almost certain my comment doesn't get any ginger cake.Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-83346681599024699212007-07-10T15:50:00.001+10:002007-07-10T15:50:00.001+10:00Jane Austen fanfic is almost entirely tripe, but y...Jane Austen fanfic is almost entirely tripe, but you might enjoy Pride and Promiscuity: the lost sex scenes of Jane Austen. Not much fruit, as far as I can recall, but quite a bit of rolling around on hillsides. (If you want really saucy Jane Austen, try Mansfield Park. The protagonist's name is a clue, I reckon.)Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.com