Confusion and Conviviality by Jane Austen
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| Henriette de Verniac by Jacques-Louis David (1799) |
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Presumably Thomas Egerton or John Murray
Source book: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next #2)
Unsurprisingly, Thursday Next has never heard of Confusion and Conviviality by Jane Austen, and you won’t have either. Miss Marianne Dashwood (of Sense and Sensibility fame) confides to Thursday that ‘the book was a socialist collective. There was a revolution - they [the characters] took over the entire book and decided to run it on the principle of every character having an equal part, from the Duchess to the cobbler! I ask you!’
There was nothing to be done. The entire book was boojummed.
Boojum: Term used to describe the total annihilation of a word/line/character/subplot/book/series. Complete and irreversible. From The Jurisfiction Guide to the Great Library.
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| Félicité-Louise-Julie-Constance de Durfort, Maréchale de Beurnonville (1782-1808) by Merry-Joseph Blondel |
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