The Austen Letters
My dear Miss Austen,
Please allow me to reiterate how charmed I was to make your delightful acquaintance these seven years past, when we two were introduced by my illustrious mother. Furthermore, allow me to take the liberty of supposing our relationship thus far to have been an enriching and enchanting one. Moreover, knowing you so has instilled great Wit and Wisdom in my life, and for that, I shall always be indebted to you.
However, my dear Jane (and might I not call you that, after all we two have shared?), recently our friendship has significantly altered, and I fear, alas, not for the better. You have become, oh dare I say this, an intrusive presence in my life. It seems as though you must always be upon my mind, and your ideas must fret me, and make my repose uneasy. I am compelled to question your Intent and your Emotions at every turn, and what is more, must even use Freud upon you, for which, dear Jane, you must forgive me.
Please believe, dear heart, that this is due to circumstances beyond my control. I have five thousand words weighing heavy upon me, and must needs find the Material with which to furnish them. I mean not that our beautiful relationship shoud be so marred by analysis and I can only pray that one day you might come to accept and forgive the actions of an increasingly desperate woman. Remember always that I love and respect you, and will do anything within my power to defend you from militant feminists and Freudian analysists, but I am only a weak and feeble undergraduate, and my much is little. Please be assured of my love for you, if nothing else, and let that stand as a Testament in the face of all that may come to pass before the Deadline is upon me.
Will you accord me the honour of a reply? You need not send me Token or Felicitations. All I ask is that you take up pen to communicate that you understand my actions, and can forgive me in time, and that after I have graduated, our relationship can resume the tranquillity and grace of those early years.
Always your loyal and devoted friend,
I remain your
Elizabeth
17 Dec 2005 17:16
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Quite. Don't worry, I will help you defend her!
Mind you, as an Engineering student I'm not sure how much I can do…
Nonetheless, we must try. For Jane's sake. :)
17 Dec 2005, 19:43
lol, brilliantly written. Slip it after page pg 200 of one of her novels and noone would notice.. :)
17 Dec 2005, 19:43
:-)
18 Dec 2005, 10:05
i still maintain that jane austen = teh suck.
except in bbc adaptations.
21 Dec 2005, 16:24
Pshaw, I say to you. And Mr Darcy would be nowhere without having actually been written about first…
*just remembers she put the P&P DVD box set on her Christmas list and jumps up and down with glee.
22 Dec 2005, 11:09
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