All things weird

La Nouvelle Heloise has written a lovely little poem for Jane Eyre (among a couple of other literary characters). We love it.

Old flame

(or advice for Jane Eyre - not that she needs any!)

Thornfield went down in flames
Leaving poor Rochester maimed
Run Jane, from St. John’s fire-less hearth
Back to old master and new mirth

Remember that some time ago we compiled all the Brontëites from The Guardian's Top Tens? Well, here's one more. (With thanks to Dan's Fabulous and Implausible Monkey Blog)

China Miéville's top 10 weird fiction
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The greatest work of horror ever. OK, technically there are no monsters or aliens or what-have-you, but there's no way this isn't horror. A book about madness, loneliness, manipulation, class and sex that's more frightening than any tentacled thing Lovecraft could come up with.

By a hair's breadth, but we never imagined we would see Jane Eyre on such a list.

Something quite unusual is reported in The California Press-Enterprise.

Murrieta's Bible in Literature would be an intense, yearlong course in which high school seniors will study classic and contemporary literature that references the Bible.
Dante's "Inferno," "Hamlet," "Jane Eyre," "Tess of the D'Urbevilles" and "Life of Pi" will be studied alongside the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, Samson and Delilah, the sacrifice of Isaac and the temptation of Jesus, to name a few. (Claudia Bustamante)

As long as the classics are read we will be happy with most arrangements :) And it never hurts to know where things spring from anyway.

Now for a couple of funnies, though we don't think the first one is intended as one, but we can't seem to make any sense out of it, can you? It must be that the Harvard Independent is only for Harvard brains.

Fortunately for us chubby chicks, the romance industry has benefited from the recent turn toward more “realistic” characters. [...]
The plain Jane has long been a prominent figure in romances, probably inspired to no small degree by Jane Eyre and Jane Austen, two Janes worshipped by many female readers (and certainly by those women who read romance novels). But traditionally, if the rounder ladies appeared at all, they were either “curvy” — read, well endowed in the chest department, which hardly makes me feel better — or in the process of shedding about fifty pounds. (Kelly Faircloth)

The article is very weird, a part of it seems to have been copied twice, repeating everything word for word. Perhaps the explanatory bit regarding this reference was left out by mistake? We don't get it anyway. There were 'rounder ladies' - for today's standards anyway - among the friends Rochester brings to Thornfield but is this what the writer means?

Something that has happened to everybody is singing a song with the wrong lyrics because we misheard them the first time. Things get worse when these wrong lyrics are posted on lyrics sites. How do you like this new version of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights from an article on BBC News?

Does Kate Bush really sing: "It's me! I'm a tree! I'm a wombat!" in Wuthering Heights?

Hilarious!

Categories: Brontëites, In the News, Jane Eyre, Music, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights