Not fanfic at all. Honest. And if you believe that...

[gillo]

I've been auditing a fabulous course this term, called "Seven Basic Plots", but only incidentally using Christopher Booker's book of that name. It's run by Ian Sansom, who is a lovely bloke, full of energy and enthusiasm. I've had to read a book each week (we started with Madame Bovary FFS) and also write a short story in the vicinity of a thousand

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[slaymesoftly]

LOL - well done. An excellent unreliable narrator. Puts a new slant on the whole thing, doesn't it? (Are you the one who pointed out some time ago that the "party" seemed more appropriate for a bordello than the home of upper class people? I'd forgotten all about that conversation on LJ until just now.)

[gillo]

Yes - I wrote some lengthy meta on the topic. I cannot believe that what we saw would count as upper-class to a genuine Victorian. So Cecily explains herself!

Glad you liked it - thanks for reading and commenting.

[enigmaticblues]

I loved it. I don't want to like our narrator, but there's something so forthright about her.

[gillo]

Thanks. Well, vengeance demons tend to be forthright, if you consider the other example of the genre we meet...

Thanks for reading!

[rebcake]

Hee! "Appropriate kindness", my Aunt Fanny. This is a lovely interpretation of the scene. If only sweet, educated, clueless Willam had been more clear-eyed, well, we'd never have had such an epic story! Well done.

[gillo]

That's an unreliable narrator for you - Cecily undoubtedly saw herself as in the right!

Thanks for reading and commenting.

[kathyh]

Definitely an unreliable narrator and it makes so much more sense of the scene. Very nice little vignette :)

[gillo]

Thank you!

[chiron14]

Alas! SMSes have made such exchanges so much more vulgar… ;-)

[gillo]

True. A Victorian lady would shudder (delicately) at textspeak!

Thanks for reading.