Jane Austen explains kissing

Ensign Sandra Lieutenant Posts: 417	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 11, 2013 16:22:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ensign Sandra on Oct 11, 2013 16:22:09 GMT Okay, what really happened was a professor used Pride & Prejudice to illustrate a point in a scientific paper, but it just goes to prove The Power of Jane!

DianeGretnaGreen Commander Anxious For Promotion Gathers Heather for Dr. Syn (alias The Scarecrow) Posts: 753	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 11, 2013 16:37:04 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by DianeGretnaGreen on Oct 11, 2013 16:37:04 GMT Also sounds like an episode out of the original Star Trek series. Specifically, THE APPLE. Yours Aye, Diane
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Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 11, 2013 16:57:42 GMT

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Post by QueueMistressMags on Oct 11, 2013 16:57:42 GMT

I was gonna say--where does anyone smooch in Jane Austen?!?

Though: some say the bolded bit in this passage from Darcy's second, successful proposal in P&P:

Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.

...means he grabbed her and laid one on her. I like this idea because it's so out-of-character for Darcy that it really shows his happiness and love for Elizabeth. However, it's pretty unlikely.

There is also this passage in MP, when Fanny Price is leaving for Portsmouth:

She clung to her aunt, because she would miss her; she kissed the hand of her uncle with struggling sobs, because she had displeased him; and as for Edmund, she could neither speak, nor look, nor think, when the last moment came with him; and it was not till it was over that she knew he was giving her the affectionate farewell of a brother.

That certainly means that he kissed her. Who knew Edmund Bertram was such a dog?

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Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 11, 2013 18:03:08 GMT

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Post by Otter on Oct 11, 2013 18:03:08 GMT

Per Mags:

I was gonna say--where does anyone smooch in Jane Austen?!?

Though: some say the bolded bit in this passage from Darcy's second, successful proposal in P&P:

Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.

...means he grabbed her and laid one on her. I like this idea because it's so out-of-character for Darcy that it really shows his happiness and love for Elizabeth. However, it's pretty unlikely.

It is also unlikely he twerked.

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QueueMistressMags Admiralty Official Hair Zhuzher of the Channel Fleet Breaker of Mead-Halls Posts: 766	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 11, 2013 18:58:16 GMT HMSCody and capital like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by QueueMistressMags on Oct 11, 2013 18:58:16 GMT But then there's Disco Darcy:

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Ensign Sandra Lieutenant Posts: 417	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 11, 2013 20:59:44 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ensign Sandra on Oct 11, 2013 20:59:44 GMT Oct 11, 2013 18:58:16 GMT QueueMistressMags said: But then there's Disco Darcy: There's more where that came from.
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Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 12, 2013 11:53:19 GMT

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Post by Nosey's sister on Oct 12, 2013 11:53:19 GMT

Oct 11, 2013 20:59:44 GMT Ensign Sandra said:

Oct 11, 2013 18:58:16 GMT QueueMistressMags said:

But then there's Disco Darcy:

There's more where that came from.

LOL for Disco!Darcy, QQM, but alas, I only get an error message when I try to klick on your link, Sandra. Pity.

DianeGretnaGreen Commander Anxious For Promotion Gathers Heather for Dr. Syn (alias The Scarecrow) Posts: 753	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 12, 2013 17:24:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by DianeGretnaGreen on Oct 12, 2013 17:24:17 GMT Same here. Can't access. Very cute though. Yours Aye, Diane
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Nosey's sister Lieutenant Nordsternchen Posts: 193	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 12, 2013 20:42:55 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Nosey's sister on Oct 12, 2013 20:42:55 GMT Oct 12, 2013 17:24:17 GMT DianeGretnaGreen said: Same here. Can't access. Very cute though. Yours Aye, Diane And here I thought it was my computer's very own, very personal cheesiness again.

LadyJamers Commander Posts: 732	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 12, 2013 23:48:44 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by LadyJamers on Oct 12, 2013 23:48:44 GMT I accessed it and may I say I like the dancing Darcy better?

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Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 13, 2013 9:18:15 GMT HMSCody likes this

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Post by HMS Lozzy on Oct 13, 2013 9:18:15 GMT

I've been away so not had chance to put this on. Its a trailer raising money for a new Jane Austen Docu-drama called Overcoming Pride and Prejudice, if you speed through the trailer to 4.30min you will see in the background in the glasses and curly hair, me!

Ensign Sandra Lieutenant Posts: 417	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 13, 2013 21:40:48 GMT HMSCody likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ensign Sandra on Oct 13, 2013 21:40:48 GMT I'd embed it here, but I believe that absorbs an awful lot of bandwith. Try this. I hope it works this time; it's pretty dang funny.
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HMSCody Lieutenant Happy to be of service, as ever. Posts: 427	Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 14, 2013 0:17:51 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by HMSCody on Oct 14, 2013 0:17:51 GMT Indeed, that clip is a side-splitter. HMSCody
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Jane Austen explains kissing Oct 14, 2013 18:03:56 GMT

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Post by Nosey's sister on Oct 14, 2013 18:03:56 GMT

Oct 13, 2013 21:40:48 GMT Ensign Sandra said:

I'd embed it here, but I believe that absorbs an awful lot of bandwith. Try this. I hope it works this time; it's pretty dang funny.

Yay! Thanks, Sandra! That was hilariously funny. Exactly what I needed. I love my (nearly daily) dose of p+p...

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