August greetings! Yes, we’re reading Jane Austen around here.

(And sometimes getting to the coast, as her characters did. For instance, in nautically themed Persuasion).

How stunning to realize that it was protagonist Elizabeth Bennet who compared rocks and mountains to men in Pride and Prejudice. Her sister Mary, who was given the line in Joe Wright’s 2005 film adaptation, neither said it in Austen’s world nor was headed to the cool mountains. Lizzie, however, was.

Who cares? I do, when creative license affects both characterization and vegetables. And vegetables is how we regard cucumbers, though they be technically fruit.

(Continues here.)