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Grigg : It's okay. It's all right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Look.
Allegra : It's a send-up of
Northanger.
Grigg : It's a program.
Allegra : Bernadette, that's your phone.
Grigg : This is my remote. And everything's on sensors.
Bernadette : Prudie? Oh, hi, Dean. Is Prudie running late?
Sylvia : What do you do on Hallowe'en?
Grigg : Oh, Hallowe'en is
big. Hallowe'en is much, much bigger. You should come over for Hallowe'en. Wait.
Bernadette : Oh, that's terrible.
Grigg : I got inspired
reading The Mysteries of Udolpho. You know, the book in Northanger Abbey that
Catherine's obsessed with reading?
Sylvia : You read The Mysteries of Udolpho?
Jocelyn : Hey, Grigg, that color almost works.
Bernadette : When did you...
Sylvia : He read The Mysteries of Udolpho.
Allegra : Wait, that book
they were reading in the book? That's a real book?
Grigg : Yeah, with the black
veils and Laurentina's skeleton. Didn't you think that sounded great?
Allegra : Yeah, it sounded awesome.
Bernadette : Dean, I'm so
sorry. Prudie must be devastated.
Dean: Prudie said to ask
you. She's supposed to talk or something, about some book?
Prudie : Persuasion.
Dean: We don't know how
long we're gonna be down in San Diego, so... She may have to cancel.
Bernadette : Tell her we'll
save Persuasion for the end. It's better to do it last, anyway. It was Austen's
final book.
Grigg : I thought Northanger Abbey was the final book.
Sylvia : Written first. Published last.
Grigg : That makes much more sense.
Bernadette : What happened with her?
Sylvia : Why?
Grigg : 'Cause it's a novel
about novels. You know? You see Austen as the young writer, questioning herself.
"Who's a heroine? What makes a good story? "Are novels a waste of time? Am I
gonna write? What should I write about?"
Sylvia : I like that.
Jocelyn : That's actually
very perceptive, Grigg.
Grigg : Thanks.
Bernadette : Prudie's mother
died.
Allegra : Vow!
Jocelyn : What?
Grigg : Jesus.
Bernadette : She got into
her car yesterday, this was in San Diego. She made a left coming out of a
parking lot into oncoming traffic.
Grigg : Jesus.
Sylvia : Terrible.
Allegra : Were Prudie and her mom close?
Bernadette : Well, there was tension.
Jocelyn : What do we think?
Is Persuasion too depressing to take on right now, with the dead mother and
everything?
Sylvia : She doesn't die on the page.
Allegra : Even Sense and Sensibility, the dad dies.
Bernadette : What about
Pride and Prejudice? I could use a little encounter in the woods with Mr. Darcy
right now. Are we all up for a little romance?
Grigg : Ready. |
