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Mar. 23rd, 2008 11:07 pm
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Segued from Kate Beckinsale's Emma to most of an episode of Dexter. Call it a study in contrasts. Like taking a turn so quickly that your brain is compressed against one side of your skull and you see stars and almost black out as the g forces drive the blood down to your feet. That sort of contrast.

Now I'm thinking how Jane Austen might write a serial killer. Could Jane write a serial killer? I think she probably could, given her eye for mood and relationship. It would all be very surface-genteel. There would be no blood. It would all be worked out in drawings rooms, and during walks to Merriton.

Anyway, I liked Emma. Felt the story a little compressed--I confess I wasn't familiar with it to this point, but it seemed another instance of ten pounds of story in a five pound bag. Still, liked it muchly. Do all of Austen's heroines have ineffectual/absent fathers? The ones I've seen so far are either deceased or in the library, reading while Rome burns.

Dexter...was very interesting. I fear being hooked. Figuratively, that is.

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