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Wow in the form of a question @ Isabella?

Having just bought series one on DVD I wonder how long I will have to wait for delivery?

I wonder why I tossed Billy into my forgettory? Was it too sad?

Did you know that I haven't seen that show before?

Does AP realize it's incredible and that it's not just my biased opinion?

Does everyone think it is incredible?

Click?

Have you clicked this click?

Not too shabby, huh?

Did you realize if you were to watch it, under no circumstance should you ever google the topic because it is so renowned that people post spoilers?

So, what have you been reading lately feeli0?

Jane Eyre! I'm up to chapter 18 and sadly have fallen for that Mr Rochester....

Oops did I forget this was questions only?

Isn't CB the most amazing and clever writer? Does she not draw you into the story?

Have you read Villette, with its anti-Catholic sarcasm (I laughed out loud), and an autistic protagonist, Lucy who is a most unreliable, coy narrator? Did you know Chapter 39 involves Lucy on a trippy opioid hallucination?

Beatles inspiration?

(No I haven't read Villette as yet but will do in due course.) Looking forward to it. Do I love a good unreliable narrator?

Could the Beatles have been that well read?

Would you excuse me for 3 minutes while I fish my dinner from the frying pan?

Will you accept that I excuse you, whereas I'd like to get some water?

Having stuffed my face, am I ready to return to playing?

Did you know this about Villette?

It is also an astonishing piece of writing, a book in which phantasmagorical set pieces alternate with passages of minute psychological exploration, and in which Brontë’s marvellously flexible prose veers between sardonic wit and stream-of-consciousness, in which the syntax bends and flows and threatens to dissolve completely in the heat of madness, drug-induced hallucination and desperate desire.

“Villette! Villette!” wrote George Eliot. “It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.” It was unlike the strong-minded Eliot to be reduced to exclamation marks and vague talk of a “something”. But Villette was so innovative for its time, and remains to this day so potently strange, that critics have struggled to find words to describe it. “There are so few books, and so many volumes,” wrote Eliot’s partner, GH Lewes. “Among the few stands Villette.”

Do you read George Eliot? DId you know she is one of my other favourites?

(Should I be paid royalties for all my literature promotions? Maybe I'll drop donations to the BPM?)

Had you considered that I'm about to read the famous drug-induced Brontë heroine hallucination scene as referenced above, in the midst of the character's heartbreak and autistic breakdown? Or, that sometimes I just read that one chapter for days and days on end to learn how she writes?