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[tree_and_leaf]

You may have seen the proposed new version of Pride and Prejudice With Extra Zombies?

The Little Professor has some suggestions for other Nineteenth Century classics with zombies. I can't decide if my favourite is Middlemarch (in which the idealistic doctor Lydgate attempts to cure the zombie plague, while failing to notice his wife's odd emptyheadedness, and struggling scholar Casubon gets a really radical idea about how to up his work rate) or He knew he was right, in which the hero becomes irrationally convinced that his wife is a murderous zombie, while seeing nothing at all odd in the fact that his best friend is obssessed with the best way to cook brains....

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I had not, but I have now!

(I have long yearned for "Gaudy Night of the Living Dead" in which Harriet Vane returns to Oxford to find it overrun by zombies, but I have never got around to writing it.)

[tree_and_leaf]

Ooh. That sounds like a lot of fun.

I was going to suggest a version of "Wuthering Heights" where Cathy comes back as a zombie, but I think Kate Bush has already done that....

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I think that she has.

I watched Black Orchid last night - rather enjoyable, and I enjoyed the luxurious amount of time spent on the cricket. I begin to come round to the POV that it's a pity Davidson never got a crack at playing Peter Wimsey and may be compelled to write a short MMA-related fic.

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm glad you enjoyed it - including the cricket (lots of people seem to think it's filler, but I disagree...)

may be compelled to write a short MMA-related fic.

Ooh!

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

We certainly discussed whether Emily Brontë had got there first during A-level...

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

The Warden - the residents of the hospital aren't after Mr Harding for his money at all - they want his brains!

[tree_and_leaf]

Not even Archdeacon Grantley suspected that Mrs Proudie's interest in promoting Sabbath-day Schools was a cover for her wish to get at the sweet, delicious infant braaaa-aaains!

[shoebox2.livejournal.com]

We all know that if you get in Jane Eyre's way, you die.

...I like the way this blog thinks. Thanks for a really excellent chuckle.

[tree_and_leaf]

Glad you enjoyed!