What's Your Filter?
Nov. 2nd, 2008 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyGot four comments on that Halloween photostory over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ag_over_18. Four. Dammitanyway, that was a hilarious album. Nobody gets the sophisticated high comedy of origami fireballs.
Anyway. Last night I went to hang out with Afshan and a few of her buddies, and it was nice to be able to talk with her again. We had a fantastic dinner, then watched Pride and Prejudice—the Keira Knightley version.
I have never read the book and had never seen the film; it didn’t sound like my cup of tea. And really, I was right as far as how absorbing the plot was (not very) and how Mr. Darcy measures up to his fangirls’ image of him (not real well*).
But.
There was something unbelievably intriguing about the intricacies of marriage according to this. The lists of reasons to marry someone, and not to marry them, and the benefits and drawbacks of marriage versus singleness had my attention riveted. I found myself thinking not something like, “Oh, that Mr. Darcy, he is brooding and deep! I hope they live happily ever after!”, but more along the lines of, “So it seems this society prefers marriage, especially for a woman, and it’s an economic arrangement especially beneficial for her so she can, you know, keep all her own money and property. But you’ve got to consider the people you marry for their economic status, class, disposition, oh and if you like them that’s nice but not really necessary. Also you have to get the approval of the family or there’ll be a scandal that reflects on them as well as you, but not as much as if you don’t even get married but just enter into some willy-nilly relationship with whoever because we simply don’t do that, these things have got to be controlled.”
Yes. I am a nerd.
It’s fun to see how what you study colors your perspective. I geeked all over![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gondolinchick01 tonight about the monkey wrench regeneration must toss into Time Lord kinship terms. Would you have different words for a kid you had during your current incarnation versus your previous incarnation? Would they have different terms for you after you regenerated? What do your kids from two different incarnations call each other—"sibling," or is there another term?
Clearly, I’ve been anthropologizing too long. Somebody stop me before I forget about plots entirely!
(I also get why Douglas Adams, who loved language for its own sake, was such a Jane Austen fan. Plot? Psh. But that dialogue was marvelous.)
*He was boring! I wanted some sort of insight from him. Instead I got:
ELIZABETH: Sup.
MR. DARCY: Word.
ELIZABETH: Sup. (unspoken vitriol)
MR. DARCY: Word. (inscrutable)
MR. DARCY: I LOVE YOU! I AM ACTUALLY A VERY NICE GUY AND WOULD LIKE TO MARRY YOU. LOOK, I PLAY MATCHMAKER FOR YOUR SISTERS.
ELIZABETH: … Oh, fine.
ag_over_18. Four. Dammitanyway, that was a hilarious album. Nobody gets the sophisticated high comedy of origami fireballs.Anyway. Last night I went to hang out with Afshan and a few of her buddies, and it was nice to be able to talk with her again. We had a fantastic dinner, then watched Pride and Prejudice—the Keira Knightley version.
I have never read the book and had never seen the film; it didn’t sound like my cup of tea. And really, I was right as far as how absorbing the plot was (not very) and how Mr. Darcy measures up to his fangirls’ image of him (not real well*).
But.
There was something unbelievably intriguing about the intricacies of marriage according to this. The lists of reasons to marry someone, and not to marry them, and the benefits and drawbacks of marriage versus singleness had my attention riveted. I found myself thinking not something like, “Oh, that Mr. Darcy, he is brooding and deep! I hope they live happily ever after!”, but more along the lines of, “So it seems this society prefers marriage, especially for a woman, and it’s an economic arrangement especially beneficial for her so she can, you know, keep all her own money and property. But you’ve got to consider the people you marry for their economic status, class, disposition, oh and if you like them that’s nice but not really necessary. Also you have to get the approval of the family or there’ll be a scandal that reflects on them as well as you, but not as much as if you don’t even get married but just enter into some willy-nilly relationship with whoever because we simply don’t do that, these things have got to be controlled.”
Yes. I am a nerd.
It’s fun to see how what you study colors your perspective. I geeked all over
gondolinchick01 tonight about the monkey wrench regeneration must toss into Time Lord kinship terms. Would you have different words for a kid you had during your current incarnation versus your previous incarnation? Would they have different terms for you after you regenerated? What do your kids from two different incarnations call each other—"sibling," or is there another term?Clearly, I’ve been anthropologizing too long. Somebody stop me before I forget about plots entirely!
(I also get why Douglas Adams, who loved language for its own sake, was such a Jane Austen fan. Plot? Psh. But that dialogue was marvelous.)
*He was boring! I wanted some sort of insight from him. Instead I got:
ELIZABETH: Sup.
MR. DARCY: Word.
ELIZABETH: Sup. (unspoken vitriol)
MR. DARCY: Word. (inscrutable)
MR. DARCY: I LOVE YOU! I AM ACTUALLY A VERY NICE GUY AND WOULD LIKE TO MARRY YOU. LOOK, I PLAY MATCHMAKER FOR YOUR SISTERS.
ELIZABETH: … Oh, fine.
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Re: Not about P&P
Date: 2008-11-05 06:23 am (UTC)Yeah, that had me wondering about Susan, too. I definitely need to learn more about old school Time Lordiness ...
Re: Not about P&P
Date: 2008-11-05 08:13 am (UTC)