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[meganbmoore]

Latest entry into "things that are possibly a bad idea":  Combining day 3 of a massive booksale that involves you hauling bags and boxes of books  with CPR training to renew your certification.

My arms!  They are going to fall off!  I swear it!

Also, inner dialogue between Sane Inner Megan (SIM) and Paranoid Inner Megan (PIM), spawned by "Hello,

Comments

[tianneh]

OT - Is your icon from Kaze Hikaru?

>.> It was something I would have followed if it hadn't been for the usage of 'female entering male headquarters' cliche.

[meganbmoore]

Yes, yes it is. I was iffy on Vol 1, but Vol 2 was much, much better.

[tianneh]

I think I got a tad further than Volume 2, although I did skip volumes shamelessly. I liked the crack, but once it was obvious that the female main is going to get into a relationship with Okita and the story is going to be diverted towards romance (yes, I know it's a shoujo manga T____T) I ditched following the horrible Japanese scans.

The only Shinsengumi series I paid money for got ditched...by the artist *cries*. Thank god it was ditched at 5 volumes and not at a cliffhanger.

[ryanitenebrae]

^^;; Jane Eyre is actually one of my favorite books, and Wuthering Heights one of my least favorite. I agree with you about the influence, though.

[meganbmoore]

I want to like Jane Eyre, but the romance offends me (she ends up with the guy who tried to trick her into becoming his mistress and who keeps his wife locked up in the attic? WTF?) and I'm kind of repulsed by Rochester on many levels. Wuthering Heights I don't like either, but I do give it credit for not portraying Heathcliffe as much as a romantic ideal as JE does Rochester.

[ryanitenebrae]

She ends up with him, yes, but on her terms. When she figures out what happened, she leaves in disgust, and I have to say, Rochester gets more than his due's worth of karma. Also, Rochester isn't exactly a moral paragon, but he is leagues above Heathcliffe, not that that means much. Still, Rochester gets what's coming to him, and he's portrayed as sympathetic enough, in my opinion, that Jane deciding to marry him at the end isn't completely disturbing. ^^;; Also, I love how, at the end, the places of power have switched, as Jane is now above him in terms of social class.

[meganbmoore]

See, I can't see Rochester as remotely sympathetic. Were it just his wife, I could possibly agree that he got his due's worth of karma. Maybe. But the thing is, he was willing to destroy Jane's life to get what he wanted (her). Even though she didn't know it beforehand, Jane would have been his mistress, not his wife. I wouldn't like him even without that part, but that's what makes the whole thing utterly unforgivable to me.

[kakkobean]

I have a Paranoid Inner Self, too! She drives me insane most of the time ^^;

[meganbmoore]

Yes! Paranoid Inner Selves exist to drive us insane, when they should just shusah and listen to the far wiser Sane Inner Selves.

[danbi]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAH that is some amazing inner mind theater action right there. :Db

hope your arms feel okay soon.