if any one knows me well enough they’d know that sometimes i wish things would happen “like NOW!”… f teases me a lot with it… as he did this morning in his self-imposed morning call from across the atlantic. i was still thickly encapsulated in sleep’s cobwebs, dreamy with lizzy and darcy in my own concoctions of Hertfordshire, Netherfield etc. … utterly pleasant. but i have to wait till Wed. before the film’s released in a cinema that i could reasonably get to without whimpering for a ride in someone’s car…
then he continued to torture me with details of an un-warranted extended ending in the US-version that seems not to do justice to the novel in its original form… a kiss… champagne… sunset… how kitschy is that?!… and so the divide between the anglo-saxons and their yankee cousins remains.
ahh… but Matthew MacFadyen, who plays Darcy, is a lot more palatable to the eye than Colin Firth (sorry Mr Firth)… in fact, if i could have had it my way, i’d engage Ralph Fiennes in the role, oh yes! oh, i can’t wait… and while i am re-reading the novel… and enjoying every pomposity of Jane Austen’s verbose use of the language… i am hoping that wednesday will arrive sooner…
like NOW!

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