Oh dear, have we been posting in Klingon again?
Either that or there’s a lack of reading comprehension in the non-Janeite world.
I just read a hilarious blog for Jane Austenites…
Gee, thanks! But mostly we just use “Janeites.”
…who are all of a quiver because Davies is working on a new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. There’s a juicy bit of back-story in the novel, with Willoughby getting it on with a teenager, and posters are getting nervous that Davies will seize on this and upset their ‘sensibilities’.
We are all astonishment that the author of the piece can borrow our language verbatim (and she might want to Google “Kaavya Viswanathan” on that subject–just saying) but still fail to comprehend the basic point of our post on the subject, to wit:
We are of the opinion that such “explorations” belong more properly to the realm of fan fiction and scholarly papers than to film adaptations, which tend to leave out important stuff in favor of this sort of useless crap anyway. Jane Austen most likely made it backstory for a reason.
Once again: we are not concerned about our “sensibilities.” We are concerned that important elements of the story will be excised in favor of unnecessary content. There, we think even Mr. Elliot would agree that we’ve expressed ourself in “clear, comprehensible, elegant English.”
