2.05.2008

Super Bowl trumps Jane Austen

I don't know why, but the guys in our house thought that this football game was more important that the latest PBS movie about Jane Austen...!
We watched out taped episode of Jane Austen Regrets yesterday. I imagine that this portrayal of Jane is close to real life. It isn't as glamorous, or have the intense experiences, but her life is much more intriguing to me than her stories. There is pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, waves of plain days and interesting ones too throughout her life. Her relationships formed and developed her as a person and this, in turn formed and developed her writing subject too.
Jane is winsome, yet deeply yearning. She is like all of us, I suppose.

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