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Whilst doing some studying for my drama lessons, I came across a very... interesting passage in the book I was taking an extract from. I thought I simply had to post it because it seemed so wrong.
‘...after another and longer interregnum of shouts, yells, ejaculations, frantic cries, agonized groans, seemed to cap the climax of noise and zeal...’
Even when I was reading it in context, it struck me as dodgy. Someone reading it out of context would probably be struck with how it sounds like a description of an orgy.
It is actually referring to a prayer meeting in a book called ‘Shirley’, by Charlotte Brontë. This book was first published in 1849.
O_o
That’s what I thought.
I’d better get back to writing my speech and studying. I get distracted and amused far too easily.
Dodgy 19th Century Novels to all,
Poppi*~
AMUSED AUTHOR EDIT: A reviewer for one of my fics informed me that she was offended by the fact I called Seamus an Irish potato. She said that she was Irish, and was sick of rubbish stereotypes like that. Little reviewer my dear, Draco called Seamus an Irish potato because Draco is a git. I was not trying to offend you secifically, I was not even trying to offend Seamus because, as we all know, he is a fictional character. Little reviewer, get a life.
‘...after another and longer interregnum of shouts, yells, ejaculations, frantic cries, agonized groans, seemed to cap the climax of noise and zeal...’
Even when I was reading it in context, it struck me as dodgy. Someone reading it out of context would probably be struck with how it sounds like a description of an orgy.
It is actually referring to a prayer meeting in a book called ‘Shirley’, by Charlotte Brontë. This book was first published in 1849.
O_o
That’s what I thought.
I’d better get back to writing my speech and studying. I get distracted and amused far too easily.
Dodgy 19th Century Novels to all,
Poppi*~
AMUSED AUTHOR EDIT: A reviewer for one of my fics informed me that she was offended by the fact I called Seamus an Irish potato. She said that she was Irish, and was sick of rubbish stereotypes like that. Little reviewer my dear, Draco called Seamus an Irish potato because Draco is a git. I was not trying to offend you secifically, I was not even trying to offend Seamus because, as we all know, he is a fictional character. Little reviewer, get a life.