I am a bad, bad person

[oursin]

But 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.

***

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.

Comments

[ann1962]

I default to choosing slayers, so I think this is excellent.

.... I think I'd better stop.

No, really, don't.