Notes on life, art, photography and technology, by a Danish dropout bohemian.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Austen
I've bought two Jane Austen books (P&P and Emma) after seeing two pages of Pride And Prejudice in a video. I've not previously been all that interested, since it seemed to be just-another-romance. But seeing the words that she wrote instead of a film from it, it struck me. There's something special about what a real writer can do with words which just stands apart from anything the story is or isn't. Each sentence is just an amazing little... construction.
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"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." - Mark Twain
;-)
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