I am a bad, bad person
Jun. 30th, 2008 07:37 pmBut in the course of a conversation with (to the best of my recollection)
1crowdedhour at Fourth Street Fantasy I invoked the concept of George Eliot Interactive Fiction.
And o dear, I have now started plotting the Middlemarch Choose Your Own Adventure. Ms Evans would not be amused, I fear:
It goes something like this:
Dorothea Brooke:
- Marries Sir James Chettam or
- Joins a Deaconess Order or
- Dies of typhoid caught from the cottagers she is philanthropising among or
- Is revealed as the next Vampire Slayer
Lydgate
- Has several unfortunate deaths in his practice and leaves Middlemarch or
- Is stalked by a female patient to the scandal of the community or
- Dies of typhoid contracted in the course of his professional duties or
- His researches lead him into creating a monster which runs amok
Casaubon
- Is offered a nice fellowship at an Oxford college shortly after his dinner with the Brookes and disappears from the plot entirely or
- Nurtures a secret lust for Will Ladislaw (why else is he supporting him?) or
- Starts to learn German so as to keep up with the latest developments in his field or
- Is revealed to be a vampire
Fred Vincy
- Dies of typhoid or
- Is crippled for life in his hunting accident or
- Does inherit vast amounts of moolah from Featherstone or
- Is beguiled by the Queen of Air and Darkness who is in the area looking for a teind to hell
Mary Garth
- Gets Featherstone to marry her on his deathbed and is a very, very rich widow or
- Writes (under a pseudonymn) a bestselling sensation novel or
- Marries the Rev Farebrother or
- Uses an occult mojo to transfer bodies with Rosamund
.... I think I'd better stop.
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Though, in terms of literary perversions, I was thinking recently how much I would like to read Imlac/Rasselas slash, written, but of course, in the true Johnsonian style.
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Date: 2008-07-01 11:32 am (UTC).... I think I'd better stop.
No, really, don't.