Tapestry of Lives- jeanm
I do sincerely hope that you are able to continue work on this. I do feel that it will be my favorite sequel.I cannot explain it with enough justice, but it is the first time that I have felt the...
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Och hm, it is difficult isn´t it?Just tried to remember what I had to read in school...Goethe, Schiller, Sophokles... and some bits and pieces of Platon... forgot the rest. Goethes Faust was quite...
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For me, the idea of a London ball being thrown for a sixteen year old girl is bothersome. Girls just didn't come out that young in London, and if there was a ball in honor of her, that would be a...
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Suzanne,Your second paragraph is how it lays out right now, but I still can’t cozy up to it. And in the absence of overwhelming sentiment to the contrary, I think I will just remove the whole thing....
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it strikes me as odd that a fifteen-year-old girl would be sent from her family to protect herThis is only the case because her family is basically one bachelor brother. If her parents were alive, or...
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True, assault is not the issue, but adventurers like Wickham were as dangerous, of course; so an attractive but poor acquaintance would be a threat that, perhaps, Darcy would not recognize; and a Mrs....
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I used two different Donne poems in "Claims of Duty" and I know I'm not the first. He's not an easy read even if English is your first language, but it would have been easier for someone in the late...
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I see your mind is made up, but I just want to second Janet's suggestion of something other than a ball, if you do want some sort of event after all. There could be plenty of jokes about the number of...
View ArticleSorry for the delay in returning to Fitzwilliam Darcy Elopes
Hey All,Just wanted to give a quick apology at how long it is taking me to get back to posting "Fitzwilliam Darcy Elopes." I planned to have more of it posted before my baby was born (he is the first...
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Life happens. Take care of the important things and we'll be here when you are ready to post again.
View ArticleRe: Sorry for the delay in returning to Fitzwilliam Darcy Elopes
Yes, it sounds rather busy and writing-distracting at present - no apology necessary (and you're getting a great chance to read)! Coincidentally, I had been thinking about this story the other day, so...
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Thank you all for the help. You gave me an idea now of what he may have liked.... and I think I know now what to choose for the story.But tell... why do you think he was so very religious? (Besides...
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I think it's reasonable to infer that he is a religious man based on his disdain for Wickham, which seems to be based mostly on Wickham's immorality. It's not a given. You could make a case for an...
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I think there's a lot of room for interpretation in how religious Darcy is, but as I said above to Jaimy, if he doesn't believe in God at all, then the end of his letter to Elizabeth is extremely...
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There is a large difference between being a religious man and being an atheist.I'd call a man who goes to church every Sunday and then spends the rest of the day reading the Bible, a religious...
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Certainly there's a lot of wiggle room. I was trying to explain why an author like Milton came up more than once as a likely candidate for Darcy's reading material. It's all up to interpretation. My...
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Does it have to be a real book? It's fiction, why not come up with a fictitious book?
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After Elizabeth reads Darcy's letter, she recalls that she had never seen any "irreligous or immoral habits" in Darcy. Now, that's a bit vague and almost certainly refers to behavior rather than...
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