Another new Jane Austen novel?
If you’ve ever considered yourself a true Austen scholar, here’s the chance to prove it — the San Diego Union-Times has come up with a list of supposed “incentives” offered to quarterback Philip Rivers by the Chargers football team as part of his contract:
If the sun rises in the west – $20 million.
If Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin and Michael Moore come out in support of George Bush – $40 million.
If Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon hug – $60 million.
If O.J. finds the real killer – $80 million.
If Lizzie Borden confesses – $100 million.
If literary scholars can show that Jane Austen wrote “War and Peace” and that Leo Tolstoy wrote “Pride and Prejudice” – $120 million.
The AustenBlog staff tried some research on this one, but it looks like we’re going to be non-millionaire Austen fangirls for a while.
August 18th, 2004 at 9:55 pm
That’s too funny!
August 18th, 2004 at 10:25 pm
Dang. I was counting the money already.
I think we can definitely make a case for Count Pierre being descended from the D’Arcys back around the time of the Conqueror. Perhaps we can write a paper showing that “Bezukhov” is a corruption of “Fitzwilliam.” What do you think?