2 posts tagged “northanger abbey”
My JASNA region is very fortunate, as Mr. Tilney writes an advice column for our quarterly newsletter, Bits & Scraps. (Full disclosure: I assist him with the related correspondence. *ahem*) This past spring, one of the letters read as follows:
Dear Mr. Tilney,Whom do you like in the National League East this year?
C.M., Avid Sportsman
P.S. I am pleased to report that the Uppercross Rotisserie League is off to a rousing start, as usual.
My dear Sportsman,
Not being an expert in the sport of Base Ball, I consulted with Mrs. Tilney. She said that the real contest will be between the New York Metropolitans and the Philadelphia club, no doubt good news for our friends in the Eastern Pennsylvania Region. She said the addition of Mr. Santana cannot but be helpful to the Metropolitans, but that the Philadelphia team has more talent at all positions, and strengthened their pitching staff as well with the addition of Mr. Lidge; tho' their performance in spring training, and the athletes' injuries, has left room for concern. However, she said she will be supporting the Philadelphia club this summer, and trusts that Mr. Howard, Mr. Rollins, Mr. Utley, and Mr. Hamels will repeat their recent successes. Mrs. Tilney has chosen Mr. Utley first for her fantasy league team the past three seasons, and is always well-served by it. Tho' she has often remarked that he is a handsome gentleman, I believe she admires his excellent play, and his affection for dogs, a trait that I share.
Yours &c.,
H. Tilney
Looks like Catherine called it, eh? Though she should have given Mr. Moyer a shoutout as well. And Mr. Tilney is the most forbearing of husbands when it comes to baseball-player crushes. ;-)
GO PHILLIES!!!!
Book: Show us a book that made you laugh out loud.
Submitted by Red Pen.
I just received this set of Jane Austen's novels yesterday. The Telegraph in the UK was giving them away with vouchers from their newspaper, and my friend Kathleen in London collected them all for me! They are the Everyman editions, so quite good, with scholarly introductions and everything, and new covers by six different artists. I like the cover of NA, which incorporates the final line of the novel: "I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
All of Jane Austen's novels are funny, but I think Northanger Abbey is her funniest.
