Tonight's movie was the 2007 adaptation of 'Persuasion' and sadly to say, it came on the heels of a breakup from my year-long boyfriend whom I love dearly.
Watching Anne's helpless scramble for the forgiveness and love of Captain Wentworth, it dawned on me, while unrealistic to hope for such a man, how utterly normal their love story is. Albeit, not every man will set aside his pride and respond to his bittersweet unwilling devotion with a letter saying simply, 'you pierce my soul' but it was as if Austen was commenting on the fairy tale in every love story. Like somehow, every ordinary romance contained some facet of the unbelievable.
If a man, rather - the right man, should ever say that to me however, I think I should run screaming to the chapel straight away. One sentence becomes the climax of an entire novel where most modern pictures require some elaborate, over-the-top, blood and gore fight sequence. Austen though can do it all, every flying uppercut, every sword thrust...in one sentence.
And it seems that while today was not the best of many I've had, it kept me in perspective as to what romance should be. What love could be. It may be plain, soft spoken, and well mannered but it's fires still burn just as bright.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
up 'n Adam.
As the inaugural post of my self-proclaimed 'favorite blog' ever - I want to break the cyber ice by explaining the title and why I choose to write as I do.
craving{Jane} is an homage to my personal obsession, the object of my literary affection - Jane Austen.
Most people ask if she's a tv host and as if a hole has been punched through my chest, I can only sigh and say "No, she's an author" "Oh, she writes romance novels?"
This is the point in my day when I begin to wonder if I like people at all.
I first read Austen when I was 15 and my mother, an avid Janeite herself, introduced me to the wonderful, sarcastic world of Pride and Prejudice. I fell slightly vegetative during the three hour span of the original BBC version and when the credits rolled, I woke from my trance to see the world as a much prettier place knowing that people like Mr. Darcy and Lizzie existed in it. Ever since then, my bookshelves have been filled with every canonical novel, short, biography, and research journal on/around/or pertaining to the world of Austen.
She is chaotic and lovely in her stories of fairy tales gone astray. She writes about a time when men stood as a lady entered the room and when ladies acted as just that.
I fell hard for her and her world and ever since, she has captivated my life like a beautiful quotation in the middle of an ugly story.
My blog won't always be about her, I couldn't possibly believe that people would want to read about her as often as I do, but it will always be inspired by her.
As a man tells his stories, a woman tells her secrets.
Here are mine.
craving{Jane} is an homage to my personal obsession, the object of my literary affection - Jane Austen.
Most people ask if she's a tv host and as if a hole has been punched through my chest, I can only sigh and say "No, she's an author" "Oh, she writes romance novels?"
This is the point in my day when I begin to wonder if I like people at all.
I first read Austen when I was 15 and my mother, an avid Janeite herself, introduced me to the wonderful, sarcastic world of Pride and Prejudice. I fell slightly vegetative during the three hour span of the original BBC version and when the credits rolled, I woke from my trance to see the world as a much prettier place knowing that people like Mr. Darcy and Lizzie existed in it. Ever since then, my bookshelves have been filled with every canonical novel, short, biography, and research journal on/around/or pertaining to the world of Austen.
She is chaotic and lovely in her stories of fairy tales gone astray. She writes about a time when men stood as a lady entered the room and when ladies acted as just that.
I fell hard for her and her world and ever since, she has captivated my life like a beautiful quotation in the middle of an ugly story.
My blog won't always be about her, I couldn't possibly believe that people would want to read about her as often as I do, but it will always be inspired by her.
As a man tells his stories, a woman tells her secrets.
Here are mine.
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