Sunday 31 January 2010
Letter #2, To Cassandra, from Steventon, “I am very much flattered by your commendation of my last Letter, for I write only for Fame, and without any view to pecuniary Emolument. – “ – Jane Austen, 14 January 1796
She was jesting here, but foreshadowing! What would she think if she knew that 234 years later, her books have never been out of print, all of them made into movies, and, it seems to me, just about every love story movie made has the Pride and Prejudice theme running through it in some way or another, would she be surprised?
Maybe not; she liked her stories and in a much later letter she refers to them as her children, so, in a sense, they are her legacy, no, they are her legacy. I think she would be proud.
"Life is Short... Break the Rules, Forgive Quickly, Kiss Slowly, Love Truly, Laugh Uncontrollably, And Never Regret Anything that Made You Smile! Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
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