"Present Mirth Hath Present Laughter..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Tuesday Scum Club is regretfully distracted. Everybody speaks very loud and very fast and nobody listens to anybody else with the result that nothing much ever gets done. Rather disappointing, really. Catch-22 seems (I am, mind, not reading it) as though it's better than that, and deserves better. Waen, I can tell, is extraordinarily bothered.

Still, they have agreed to make The D Case their next book! For that, I am quite excited and grateful. Waen will have to tell me how it goes. ^_^ It's her Special Thing, so I shan't go again. I just wanted to know what it was like.

One of the girls was talking about the prom. I wanted to wear my blue patchworked dress, but she says it's much too fancy for that. She says girls wear tiaras and buy awfully expensive dresses and everything, so I shan't be able to wear mine. I'll have to find something else. It's just that most of my dresses are just right for work--they're jumpers, or skirts, made out of pretty, strong material--but not so good for very fancy things.

But I'll make do; just watch.

Jane Eyre, at least as far as I am, seems a lot like Heathcliff, only female. Mum promises she'll grow out of it and I'm completely mad for thinking so anyway.

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[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

See, I'm more like Jane. She's never done anything wrong: why should she be punished and just sit there and take it? I would probably not have the guts to act out, but I'd desire some sort of revenge I'd never be able to wreak, and I'd be weirdly satisfied when the board of governors finally sacks Mr Brocklehurst, the hypocritical douchebag.

Heathcliff acts out over perceived insults, not actual injustices. (of course, I adore Jane Eyre and nearly everyone in it, including St John Rivers, while I hate every single character in Wuthering Heights, including the guy who is actually listening to the whole story because he cares more about these screwed up people than I do, and therefore he's a moron.)