Perhaps another part of the reason for, perhaps a better quality of JA ff-s, is that more is needed between the ears to even READ JA. Even at my great age, the enlightenment that the classical use of "comedy" did not require humor, was slow to come. Also, JA does not have car chases (or by horse...) or boinking scenes, so maybe they do not lend themselves to juvenile ff-s. Furthermore, not much lend itself to "action;" of which the only thing that come to my mind is Col. Brandon's galloping his horse, leaving the scene of the picnic, and that is in adaptions. I have not read in Emma, P&P, and S&S anything like sinking spur [see "Drago" in /McLintock!/]. To be honest, I am surprised I am hooked like a big bass.
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