Emma

[afuna]

Dear intertubes,

Thank you for making it easy possible to watch a show in sync with someone halfway across the world.

Love, Fu


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I just finished watching Emma with aveleh! :-D Much much much squeee. We split it across several viewing sessions, constrained by time on both sides and slow internet on my side. She had to basically give me a cliffs notes version of who was in which scene and why stuff was important, because I had a really difficult time telling John Knightley, Frank Churchill, and um, Mr.Knightley Knightley*, apart (among others). But but sooooooo much love for when... oh um is it a spoiler to say? Well, um. ANYWAY.

It was fun ^_^

* I cannot remember his first name for the life of me

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[aveleh]

George.

It is used all of... twice in the book before this scene after they're engaged:

"'Mr. Knightley.'—You always called me, 'Mr. Knightley;' and, from habit, it has not so very formal a sound.—And yet it is formal. I want you to call me something else, but I do not know what."

"I remember once calling you 'George,' in one of my amiable fits, about ten years ago. I did it because I thought it would offend you; but, as you made no objection, I never did it again."

"And cannot you call me 'George' now?"

"Impossible!—I never can call you any thing but 'Mr. Knightley.' I will not promise even to equal the elegant terseness of Mrs. Elton, by calling you Mr. K.—But I will promise," she added presently, laughing and blushing—"I will promise to call you once by your Christian name. I do not say when, but perhaps you may guess where;—in the building in which N. takes M. for better, for worse."

[aveleh]

Oh, and to prevent confusion about what N. and M. means (since I know I had to look it up when I read it):

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/emmchrad.html#ntakem

Basically, in prayer books, so that the minister knows when to say whose names in a wedding, those spots are marked with N. and M. It's not shorthand for those two in particular :)

[afuna]

Heeeeeee thank you, I was about to ask you / look it up myself!

[afuna]

Ahahaha so it is not just me who doesn't know. Good to know!

And <33333