Pride, Prejudice, and Nausea…
February 17, 2009 7:00 pmPeople do not like to be reduced to either mean or nice, nice being the worse of the two adjectives.
People are amiable, incorrigible, pompous, religious, ostentatious, fractious, sophomoric, whimsical, arrogant, insipid, vulgar, trite, scornful, repugnant, dignified, sultry, scathing, petulant, pedantic, benevolent, malevolent, ambivalent, pretentious, and otherwise complicated… especially when they are in search of each other.
It is with great trepidation that I admit, I am reading Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice”… okay, well I am listening to the audio book, but still… I am absorbing into my mind the crown jewel of female narrative; encapsulating all known interpersonal, social, and familial happenings between men and women in search of holy matrimony. …and, I like it. I should say, I am in awe of the social commentary, the plot is nauseating…
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Author: Jane Austen
Jane Austin is a genius, and her insightful contrivances of human social posturing reveal much about the human condition, and my own semi-conscious efforts to avail myself to the fancy of women. I appreciate Austin’s subtle implicit commentary in much the same way I cherish the more explicit warnings and revealings of human frailty in C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”.
I am only about a quarter of the way in, but already; I am placing my bets on the final outcome of the brooding and arrogant Mr. Darcy cleaning house and taking names.
My suspicions were happily confirmed after being nudged to speculate by a friend of mine (female). She conceded with a frump of slightly intoxicated exasperation…
…yaaa, Mr. Darcy kicks ass in the end…
I called it in Rocky, Rambo, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard too… but I never listened to the audio book versions…
One Response to “Pride, Prejudice, and Nausea...”
you should watch emma. that is another girl favorite, and will also make you sick. ha!
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