I always think this will make sense later . . .
My short-term memory is pretty much made of fail. I've lost more ideas and lines and general Cool Writerly Stuff by sheer forgetfulness than anything else.
So, I'm at work, and I have an idea for a scene, I plot it all out, and I know it will be gone in about five seconds. So I find a piece of scrap paper and scribble some Meaningful fragment of it down, certain that I will, of course, understand to what these short cryptic phrases were referring. Sometimes I do (usually when I go to the trouble of writing them all out), but mostly they're all but indecipherable.
For general edification (and lulz), these are today's:
"I should hate to look like a poor orphan from a country village."
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Lady Catherine . . . mourn.
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"They use DOS!"
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"I am not fascinating."
Elizabeth looked up from the computer screen. "Ten thousand fangirls would beg to disagree."
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Ly C lips
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"Oh, madam, madam, she's dead!"
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So, Lady Catherine and Wickham are colluding in a lie? Because according to both, Darcy and Anne were intended for each other from birth; unless we're supposed to think that the colonel's brother has been married for over twenty-eight years, Lady Catherine simply chose the infant - and, OH NOES, nonnoble - heir to Pemberley above the future earl. Maybe she and her sister were really that close.
Or maybe Darcy is just a better match.
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what would Ly C think?
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"But, Miss Fitzwilliam, what shall I tell her?"
"Nothing," said Elizabeth firmly.
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like the beginning all over again (w/o Jane)
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Messiah concert: "Some things never change."/ "I haven't been since 1797."
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from Broadway - P&P the musical!
"I have got to see that."
"We have the DVD," said Darcy.
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"I smile over ten times in the books - that, incidentally, is not only more than any other man in that novel, but in any of them. Try not to be a complete fool."
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vaguely related comments
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certainly not, if by "aristocrat" you mean "nobleman"; astonishingly, however, that is not the One True Definition of the word; e.g., the Cambridge Online Dictionary defines an aristocrat as "a person who holds high social rank." Yes, Virginia. Like Darcy. And Elizabeth.
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"She created you."
Darcy paused. "Are you suggesting that God is a woman?"
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"In my family, I am generally considered to be hopelessly fanciful and absent-minded," said Darcy.
The latter, she acknowledged to herself, was not too far off the mark.
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"Why do it myself, when I can hire someone else to do it five times more effectively?"
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"a man who understands what is to - say whatever comes one's mind, even when it is unwise - to do silly, foolish things on the impulse of the moment."
"Should I then marry a proud, sarcastic man of little sensibility and no sentiment?"
"As a matter of fact," said Cecily, "I think you would be very well suited indeed" - and she flounced out.
Elizabeth stared after her. "Well-suited to whom?"
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So, I'm at work, and I have an idea for a scene, I plot it all out, and I know it will be gone in about five seconds. So I find a piece of scrap paper and scribble some Meaningful fragment of it down, certain that I will, of course, understand to what these short cryptic phrases were referring. Sometimes I do (usually when I go to the trouble of writing them all out), but mostly they're all but indecipherable.
For general edification (and lulz), these are today's:
"I should hate to look like a poor orphan from a country village."
----
Lady Catherine . . . mourn.
----
"They use DOS!"
----
"I am not fascinating."
Elizabeth looked up from the computer screen. "Ten thousand fangirls would beg to disagree."
----
Ly C lips
----
"Oh, madam, madam, she's dead!"
----
So, Lady Catherine and Wickham are colluding in a lie? Because according to both, Darcy and Anne were intended for each other from birth; unless we're supposed to think that the colonel's brother has been married for over twenty-eight years, Lady Catherine simply chose the infant - and, OH NOES, nonnoble - heir to Pemberley above the future earl. Maybe she and her sister were really that close.
Or maybe Darcy is just a better match.
----
what would Ly C think?
----
"But, Miss Fitzwilliam, what shall I tell her?"
"Nothing," said Elizabeth firmly.
----
like the beginning all over again (w/o Jane)
----
Messiah concert: "Some things never change."/ "I haven't been since 1797."
----
from Broadway - P&P the musical!
"I have got to see that."
"We have the DVD," said Darcy.
----
"I smile over ten times in the books - that, incidentally, is not only more than any other man in that novel, but in any of them. Try not to be a complete fool."
----
vaguely related comments
----
certainly not, if by "aristocrat" you mean "nobleman"; astonishingly, however, that is not the One True Definition of the word; e.g., the Cambridge Online Dictionary defines an aristocrat as "a person who holds high social rank." Yes, Virginia. Like Darcy. And Elizabeth.
----
"She created you."
Darcy paused. "Are you suggesting that God is a woman?"
----
"In my family, I am generally considered to be hopelessly fanciful and absent-minded," said Darcy.
The latter, she acknowledged to herself, was not too far off the mark.
----
"Why do it myself, when I can hire someone else to do it five times more effectively?"
----
"a man who understands what is to - say whatever comes one's mind, even when it is unwise - to do silly, foolish things on the impulse of the moment."
"Should I then marry a proud, sarcastic man of little sensibility and no sentiment?"
"As a matter of fact," said Cecily, "I think you would be very well suited indeed" - and she flounced out.
Elizabeth stared after her. "Well-suited to whom?"
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