potentialities

I reread Jane Eyre and I checked out a copy from the library because my childhood copy is a bit elderly and fragile. It happened to be a Penguin Classics edition with footnotes, some of which were actually enlightening and some of which…well.

At the very end (spoilers if you haven't read Jane Eyre, I guess), Mr. Rochester says "Do you know, Jane, I have your little pearl necklace at this moment fastened round my bronze scrag under my cravat?" This was footnoted "scrag: Usually defined as 'neck', which does not make sense: probably an ornamental pin beneath the cravat". I find this proposed reading so contrary and baffling that I have created the following poll:

Having rashly promised people that I would email them a copy of my postapocalyptic monastery novel if I actually finished it, I find myself actually having to deliver!

Don't worry, you needn't feel obligated to enjoy it, or actually read it, or anything. That said, I had a lot of fun writing it, in highly twisted and masochistic sort of way. (Especially yesterday, fourteen thousand words, oh my god).

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And thus, a poll:

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Stan told I should post here more often. There is some justice to this. However, he failed to answer me when I inquired what, precisely, I should be posting. You can blame him for this post.

On Friday, I decorated my locker at work with photocopies from the Prince of Tennis manga. I put all of Seigaku along the bottom and this panel above my name:



Stan made fun of me for my Inui love and said that his heart belongs to oval glasses, not square ones. (Although I think this really just translates to him perving on Shirota, since his primary Tenipuri exposure is watching the movie twice while providing his own subtitles.) Sam concurred with him, while maintaining that Kaidoh is hotter than both of them. And thus, a pointless poll, for the collection of data:

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( An important issue that I do not believe anyone else has discussed so far [Spoilers] )