Looking ahead a few days, today is referenced by Mina:
The letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over and read, "Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, on July 29,1873, falling from the rocks at Kettleness. This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son. `He was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.' Really, Mr. Swales, I don't see anything very funny in that!" She spoke her comment very gravely and somewhat severely.
"Ye don't see aught funny! Ha-ha! But that's because ye don't gawm the sorrowin' mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk'd, a regular lamiter he was, an' he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn't get an insurance she put on his life. He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket that they had for scarin' crows with. `twarn't for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him. That's the way he fell off the rocks. And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I've often heard him say masel' that he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven, an' he didn't want to addle where she was. Now isn't that stean at any rate," he hammered it with his stick as he spoke, "a pack of lies? And won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' ut the grees with the tompstean balanced on his hump, and asks to be took as evidence!"
I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she said, rising up, "Oh, why did you tell us of this? It is my favorite seat, and I cannot leave it, and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide."
"Ye don't see aught funny! Ha-ha! But that's because ye don't gawm the sorrowin' mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk'd, a regular lamiter he was, an' he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn't get an insurance she put on his life. He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket that they had for scarin' crows with. `twarn't for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him. That's the way he fell off the rocks. And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I've often heard him say masel' that he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven, an' he didn't want to addle where she was. Now isn't that stean at any rate," he hammered it with his stick as he spoke, "a pack of lies? And won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' ut the grees with the tompstean balanced on his hump, and asks to be took as evidence!"
I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she said, rising up, "Oh, why did you tell us of this? It is my favorite seat, and I cannot leave it, and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide."
(I really don't know what to think about that "dazzle" bit. Because the more we talk about it, the more it seems like--it's ehietr a huge chain of coincidences, or it's not so much "Stephenie Meyer never read any vampire books" as "Stephenie Meyer read ALL the vampire books.")I have thing about that for a while now I'm think Smeyer is lying through her teeth both to look original "I'm so creative that I dreamt it all!" its a lot more glamourous than just stating that she read a lot of vampire books and changed and added what she though it will work and to cover her ass for all the goth fans and academic writers.I mean to use and example: Rosalie's story can be read as Lucy's revenge.I mean Lucy (the pretty spoiled, rich girl) gets staked after becoming a vampire in a scene that is very similar to a gang rape and Rosalie (the pretty spoiled rich girl, gets to kill the men that gang raped her wearing the wedding dress after turned into a vampire and instead of disappearing she gets a vampire husband, more money, more beauty and a loving family. I totally wait for her to reveal on her bio that reveals what she added and what she omitted to the vampire myths to make the story work, like it or not the books has been a lot more successful that other recently and better written, vampire ones. I also have my own idea that aside from being written as a fan fiction it is a fan fiction of many classical books that "fixes" what made couples like Romeo and Juliet and Cathy and Heatcliff not have their happy endings.Or she is just too damn lucky!
Posted by: Nathan | July 04, 2012 at 11:15 AM