(With apologies to site visitors who might be unfamiliar with one or the other work…)
[via the reliable, insanely good taste of literary agent Janet Reid]
It Is a Tweet Universally Acknowledged…
Truly brilliant stuff. Very brief excerpt:
TheRealJaneAusten:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.MrsB:
A Mr Bingley–worth 50,000 followers a year–has joined Twitter! He’s brought a friend, Mr Darcy–worth 100,000 followers a year! Pls RTMrsB:
@JaneB @LizzyB @MaryBsaphorisms @KittyB @LydiaB I will have one of you girls married into internet fame yet. Just you wait.LizzyB:
@MrsB But mother, I think we can pull ourselves up by our dooce-straps just fine.MrsB:
Blogcasting: How to find husbands for your daughters: http://tinyurl/momblog Now with free giveaway from our Etsy embroidery shop. Pls RTLizzieB:
@JaneB If I could love a man who would love me enough to take me for a mere 50 followers, I should be well pleased…LizzieB:
@JaneB …but such a man wouldn’t be sensible & I could never love a man who was out of his twits. LOLJaneB:
Oh @LizzyB, it is my ardent wish to marry 4 love. Love, respect AND dual laptops would be most agreeable. #iamdullbutpretty
…and it gets much, much better. I am in awe.
[Hat tip to Maggie, Dammit.][Aside to self: In any week when you really need to use the Web for productive reasons, do not allow Google Reader to open, under any circumstances.]
Department of Barely Restrained Comment
(Jane Austen Desk)
From Variety (courtesy of The New Yorker‘s “The Book Bench” blog):
Rocket launches ‘Predator’
Clark to direct aliens vs. Jane Austen pic
By MICHAEL FLEMINGElton John’s Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends.
Will Clark is set to direct “Pride and Predator,” which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.
[…]“It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect,” [Rocket Pictures’ David] Furnish said.
