What are men to rocks and mountains?
Remember that dearth of P&P3 news we warned you about? We’re scraping the bottom of the barrel now, fellow Janeites. But it is the AustenBlog Staff’s mission to bring you All The Jane News That Is Fit To Blog and by gum we’re gonna do it. Besides, we know you’re all panting for every tidbit of P&P3 news we can dig up. (Come, confess!)
So, here it is.
London, Oct 6 : It seems that Keira Knightley can certainly go to any ‘heights’, to get her work done, and that too without any fears.
The teenage actress, who was recently voted the sexiest movie star of all time, reportedly showed no hesitation in climbing up a 100 ft rock to film for her upcoming flick ‘Pride and Prejudice’, and armed with only a safety harness and rope promptly climbed the cliff to shoot the scene in The Peak District.
“She was a real pro and showed no fear,” an onlooker was quoted by The Sun, as saying.
We are forcibly reminded of a sweet little sonnet dashed off by Miss Morland’s favourite heroine, Emily St. Aubert of The Mysteries of Udolpho, upon viewing an Alpine range:
The weary traveller, who, all night long,
Has climb’d among the Alps’ tremendous steeps,
Skirting the pathless precipice, where throng
Wild forms of danger; as he onward creeps
If, chance, his anxious eye at distance sees
The mountain-shepherd’s solitary home,
Peeping from forth the moon-illumin’d trees,
What sudden transports to his bosom come!
But, if between some hideous chasm yawn,
Where the cleft pine a doubtful bridge displays,
In dreadful silence, on the brink, forlorn
He stands, and views in the faint rays
Far, far below, the torrent’s rising surge,
And listens to the wild impetuous roar;
Still eyes the depth, still shudders on the verge,
Fears to return, nor dares to venture o’er.
Desperate, at length the tottering plank he tries,
His weak steps slide, he shrieks, he sinks–he dies!
Brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it?
P.S. Yes, things are always a trifle silly near bedtime at AustenBlog World Headquarters. We suspect that Dorothy the maidservant has been brewing the Orange Pekoe rather stronger than usual of late.
