Lucasian Study Centre, University of Milton North

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Just in case no one opens a better one

No Theresa - that's my Dh's idea of seduction

Am joking btw!!! Although he does like his food and his footie !

Same as most blokes I am afraid, MrsLN.
Some of 'em will actually try to fit you in at half-time.

I'll give him some credit - half time wouldn't be long enough !

I suppose moody arrogant blokes would get a bit annoying eventually in RL, especially when you wanted something practical, like some shelves put up or what have you. Unless the love of a good woman transforms them into DIY gods too.

I think I prefer the apres footie approach to some of those bad sex scenes!
Mutual mastication? Gaws 'elp us!

There were seriously grim weren't they?

I've been taking my mind off them with a bit of , in particulr 0.29; 0.41; 2.42-47 & 3.16

Feeling much better now!

I can only think they wrote them that bad on purpose so you could read them on trains without blushing.

Might make you travel sick though!

Just as I prefer the words of Miss Austen, so I prefer those of Mrs Gaskell. But make sure you are sitting comfortably on the chaise longue, as the sheer thrilling power and passion of the words may leave you collapsed on the Aubusson.

::Hands around the Polish cordial and some smelling salts, just in case::

I do not want to be relieved from any obligation,' said he, goaded by her calm manner. Fancied, or not fancied - I question not myself to know which - I choose to believe that I owe my very life to you - ay - smile, and think it an exaggeration if you will. I believe it, because it adds a value to that life to think - oh, Miss Hale!' continued he, lowering his voice to such a tender intensity of passion that she shivered and trembled before him, 'to think circumstance so wrought, that whenever I exult in existence henceforward, I may say to myself, "All this gladness in life, all honest pride in doing my work in the world, all this keen sense of being, I owe to her!" And it doubles the gladness, it makes the pride glow, it sharpens the sense of existence till I hardly know if it is pain or pleasure, to think that I owe it to one - nay, you must, you shall hear' - said he, stepping forwards with stern determination - 'to one whom I love, as I do not believe man ever loved woman before.' He held her hand tight in his. He panted as he listened for what should come.

::gasping for breath::

Mrs Gaskell could write up a storm, could she not? Love and tender intensity and panting. Yum!

Certainly much more thudworthy than mutual mastication, Techno.

Teri's eyes did rather pop out at that TBH but then she realised she'd read it wrong.

Dang, MrsLN I forgot about the gag reflex...

Meticulous bit of research there, on your part, on the RB vid.

Exactly! That quickens my pulse far more than all that squeaking and slithering.

::Feels queasy::

After all this swooning over Messrs Darcy and Thornton, even though this is the wrong Darcy .

Certainly much more thudworthy than mutual mastication, Techno.

Teri's eyes did rather pop out at that TBH but then she realised she'd read it wrong.

ROFL!

Actually Rofling up to bed as need to be up early for swimming in the morning {yawn} - night ladies!

No contest, with chocolate box Darcy. But mind you, I prefer Thornton over The Darcy anyway

Johnny rules!

Good night MrsLN, sweet dreams.

Indeed, Theresa. Mr Thornton is indeed the Top Man - he has no peer - but of all the Messrs Darcy, Mr Firth is the first among equals, I think. My dilemma is: where does Mr Rochester fit in Techno's Top of the Cravat-wearing Pops?

I must go to bed too, so will leave you with this .

Sweet dreams on the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo.

Oh thanks for the Fix You fix, sweet dreams to you too.

Mr Rochester is not in the Thornton/Darcy league, to me, but that is just me and my funny foibles.

::Looks back at you::

You're welcome. I think Fix You, like the BWWMD, bears frequent repetition.

I have only ever read Jane Eyre (have the Toby Stephens adaptation on dvd but have never got round to watching it), but I find Mr Rochester more compelling than Darcy, if less obviously romantic, however...

"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to youespecially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for youyou'd forget me."

Obviously not meant to be crossed out - bloody thing I c & p'd had double hyphens in it!

I had the same problem with the N&S last night. Interestingly, I discovered that if the double hyphens are right next to the first word in a sentence, you then have to cross out each word separately, but if there is a space between the double hyphens and the first word, it'll cross out the entire sentence at one stroke.

How was swimming?

testing the hyphen theory

oooh it worked!