Marlow moments.

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

Anyone else have brief moments of excited recognition when you hear or see something that you recognise from the Marlowverse? I had one this morning when Sarah Cox on the radio referred to that 'old Victorian phrase - Never apologise, never explain,' and I thought 'that's what Lawrie said to Nicola before the Cricket Match', and my drive to work was considerably brightened up.
Nicola and Lawrie didn't know who famously said it, but hoped it might be Churchill, as I remember.

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[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

I had one watching The Taming of the Shrew the other day: Petruchio proposes a version of the Falconer's Toast, which got me thinking about all sorts of strange and disturbing AUs for the Patrick/Ginty/Nicola triangle.

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

Though neither Ginty nor Nicola seem to need 'taming' when it comes to Patrichio!
A couple of months ago there was a documentary about the Brontes and Gondal and Haworth on TV, and one of the presenters was Lucy Mangan, who must surely have had a few private Peter's Room moments. I was a bit surprised when they said Gondal was the female kingdom, ruled by queens; the Marlows didn't pick up on that at all, did they?

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

They're already very tame, aren't they?! But what if they weren't...?

I don't really know very much about the Brontës' juvenilia, but the Marlow version of it does seem very odd -- I think there's quite a lot of glittering high society/brilliant artistic salons &c., especially in what Charlotte wrote.

What if they weren't?

[(Anonymous)]

I think/hope Nicola would say something along the lines of 'not blooming likely / are you out of your tiny mind?' to a Patrichio who tried any 'taming', with the eight-bladed knife coming out if any more persuasion were needed. Ginty would really prefer to be worshipped and cherished, but I can see her convincing herself that the taming process was just what she wanted really, if she thought that might keep Patrichio interested in her and not Nicola!

Re: What if they weren't?

[(Anonymous)]

Above was Jackmerlin. Didn't realise I wasn't logged in.

[hooloovoo_42]

There's an estate across the road from me where the roads are named after birds. But one road is called Falconers Close. I walk past it several times a week on my way to the leisure centre and always think Marlow related thoughts.

[joyeuce]

I had a Marlow moment when I first saw (or first noticed) "sun on the sea when there's no sun".

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Re "Never apologise, never explain," the origin is murky. See https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/apr/08/maya-angelous-misquoted-stamp-and-other-famous-lines-we-all-get-wrong

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I recall being delighted when I realised Mary Renaut and The Mask of Apollo were real - I have a Renault on my bookshelves but haven't read it yet.

Also noting use of the word "equably", and aspiring to same when dealing with all the woes and annoyances of my own horde of infant young!

I didn't watch the recent Gondal documentary - I recall only one or two of the Marlow gang were familiar with it at all, and that from the descriptions passed down from Karen and Kempe?

Not skipping.

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

I'm having a Nicola moment right now. I started a book which claimed on the cover to be "undiluted joy" and "the most gloriously entertaining novel" and I'm finding it as dull as Nicola found 'Persuasion' to start with. And like Nicola I can't skip, so I have to keep slogging till it's finished.