Sunday, May 30, 2010

Because I am easily amused...

I don't know if it's because I'm a seasoned anime watcher but I take to Elizabeth's Shaolin moves and Darcy's Kyoto training with good cheer. And yes, beware, if you're a true-blooded fan of Austen's Pride & Prejudice that the following chunks might not sit well with you. Heh heh...

Mr Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings. It was some consolation to think that he would soon fall at the end of her blade - and that in less than a fortnight she should herself be with Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery of her spirits, beginning with the presentation of Darcy's heart and head.

She could not think of Darcy without remembering his cousin, for agreeable as he was,Colonel Fitzwilliam was also the one man who could assign the guilt of Darcy's slaying to Elizabeth.He would have to be dispensed with as well.

While settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself. But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr Darcy walk into the room. In a hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health, inputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better. She answered him with cold civility, scarcely able to believe her luck at his happening by so soon, and waiting for the first opportunity to excuse herself and retrieve her Katana...

excerpted, with a great deal of laughing, from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame Smith, with 85% contribution by Jane Austen.

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