Persuasion

I’ve been smitten by the classical bug…AGAIN. After the bout of goth, that is. But it’s all about books. I require no persuasion. Get it?? HEHE.

Spent the night with Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot. Again. Aah. Jane Austen is simply genius. Her characters ooze reality and are etched with every trait that makes a man/woman. Perfection itself. I couldn’t help myself so ended up watching the BBC adaptation of Persuasion. Again. Rupert Penry-Jones. He is sooooo perfect!! I love those little looks he gives her – the whole ‘I will be indifferent to the only woman I’ve truly ever loved but I still cannot help loving her!’ Gives me the goosbumps all the time !! <That’s just me getting all lovey dovey> He’s a really good actor. I LOVE HIM!! I’m a very very happy camper. Honestly I couldn’t ask for anything more. A whole set of my favourite classics and twilight, and rest assured I will keep to my room, speak nothing and be very content with life.

I’m now A1 certified in German!! Managed an 86% after missing a week of the most important grammar classes, and not studying at all. So I suppose it’s all good. Did badly in the orals during the 2^nd test and model paper (8.5 on 10 and 12.5 on 15) but landed a 15 (on 15) in the finals!! This happened when the frech (=naughty) gang of our class happened to be put in the same group for the orals!! Ooh, and my writing skills haven’t failed me in this European language either!! A 14 on 15!! I’m quite delighted by the prospect of now being certified in a foreign language, and that too German!! Supposed to be harsh, and I can fully understand why given the guttural sounds of the language, but it’s a very nice language. I’ve taken to deciphering German comic strips now. Planning to take up the A2 course as well as soon as I can.

I’m leaving next Wednesday…on my transfer. Arrangements have been made for an apartment, furniture and other necessities. All that remains is that I go there.

I’ve gone and screwed up my TOEFL iBT account and now I cannot log in at all!! I still need to send the scores to three universities, 2 of whose deadlines are 15^th January, and now I’m getting desperate. Sadly I cannot do anything till Monday since this is the Christmas weekend!!

Oh…MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY !! Got a bunch of presents, sensible and useful. Dad’s birthday too. Christmas is fun time!! Going to a little party tonight as a follow up to complete what we started last night!! The carolling and stuff.

Here’s the bit from Persuasion that always leaves me smiling and breathless !!

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan.–Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes?–I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice, when they would be lost on others.–Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in

F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening, or never.”