Still amazing

We still gape at people's ability to slip the Brontës into any kind of article or report. Here's one more.

I wonder what Charlotte Bronte and her characters would have thought about downloading weather reports from circling satellites and reading them on electronic handheld devices. Weather was certainly an important aspect in the setting of her 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights, and weather is still an important element in our daily lives. Accordingly, it is not just a matter of convenience but also sometimes a matter of vital importance to have access to accurate weather information.

And if you're so intent on alluding to the Brontës, then make sure you get your facts right. Lately we are seeing a new wave of "Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë", which always makes us feel like banging our head against a wall.

And also the Brontës (not just Charlotte, who wrote Jane Eyre), like most country people back then, could read signs that go unnoticed for us today so perhaps they would wonder at such devices being used for something so simple. So, see, you could have saved your mention after all.

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