I'm not sure if anyone has had Chesley for anything, but he is hilarious. Currently, we are reading Pride and Prejudice, which is, according to him, the BEST NOVEL IN THE HISTORY OF NOVELS.
So today, someone brought up the movie version starring Keira Knightly as Elizabeth Bennet. He did not like this so much.
"Keira Knightly looks like she needs an IV so she will not die on the spot."
Maybe it sounded funnier in his voice, which can at times be high-pitched for a man, especially when he is passionate about something as he is about Pride and Prejudice.
This is his modern interpretation of the idea of marriage in the novel.
"No I will not marry you because your uncle has done time for grand theft auto."
This kind of got me thinking about marriage. We are so free today to do what we want, compared to the 19th century. You couldn't just marry who you wanted when you wanted. Marriage was a game of chance.
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1 comment:
I love Chesley, and you're right, the phrase about Keira Knightly is ten times funnier in his voice.
The poems are from an ongoing "anthology" we are collecting in Miriam's poetry workshop. Have you taken that class? It's great. But you could get them from anywhere...stroll through the stacks in the library and pick your favorite line from each poem you flip to. It's a fun game. And everyone plays a little differently. It was interesting to hear what different people in the class came up with.
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